I already have this. When I put my site to 4.0.1 just activate it or I must download it here and go from there?

Thanks!

thanks a lot KW802 for the reply.... ;)

It really works to vB 4.0.1

i repeatedly get [REMOTEERR] Unverfied and rejected by policy

what could be causing this???

i assume this is a connection error of some sort.

Working fine with 4.0.1 for me.

Do you really have that many people that need to be whitelisted?

Other than Name matches, I can't see how many registrations that would be on the IP or email lists. (I disabled Name checks.)

For being able to submit, I have my site send me an email on every successful registration. In that email, I have modified it to generate a link that I can submit a spammer. If they get thru (such as being a new spammer) I can just click the link in the email and it is submitted.

Yeah, I would like it within the plugin, but considering that I have had only 2 false positives I would rather have caught the thousands of attempts. (Even the false positives were debatable.. as it seemed the people had malware infestations and were showing up in other places as spammers as well.)

In newuser email, add the following:

Is this only blocking people who are trying to register or people who are browsing the site?

Since installing this on 1/18, I have 254 log entries for vbStopForumSpam... I do not get that many registrations per day - 3 or 4 is considered a "busy day" for registrations. Why is it that all of these spammers that are now being blocked were not successfully registering before this was installed? The only "captcha" that I have is a question: "What model did Chevrolet build? Camaro or Firebird?" It's not like it's hard for a human to answer that and I seriously doubt that the single question was blocking THAT MANY spammers or was it?

Just shocked at the logs. I'm almost wondering if installing this has made it that more enticing to the spammers or something.

It could be that they were not trying to get thru an actively register.

I had a lot of registration "attempts" that were not completed where they were running scripts trying out different things but making sure that they didn't actually register.

From what I understand this mod catches them during any attempt, even those ones that try to capture all the questions of some sites or try different things to help build their script.

have many others had this [REMOTEERR] error

i think it is a connection error of some description but i can tfor the life of me figure out why its happening. it works fine on one server but not on others.

Anyone have a fix for the [REMOTEERR] errors?

Just installed this, hope it works good!

On the plus side, I logged into the stopspam website and checked a few IPs from known spammers that I have and they were all listed. So that's good news. =)

I'd also recommend everyone get an API key so you can submit spammers as well. The more people on board, the better the system is.

Anyone have a fix for the [REMOTEERR] errors?

- This is what happens when your webserver cant connect to our server for some reason, either DNS failure (and I see a LOT of hosts with bad DNS configurations), our server being down, network issues, any reasons really.

The server itself is hosted at dzone.com now. they have a massive infrastructure to support the server and its up a lot.

nice add on. thanks.