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Don't forget also to ban certain email addresses at AdminCP >> Settings >> Options >> User Banning Options >> Banned Email Addresses.

I learned of a new (to me) and very dubious "anonymous" email service today and added it to my list: mailnesia.com

That website describes its service as follows:

Quote:

Automatically clicks registration links
Disposable email at its best. Whenever you need to register on a site and you don’t want to give out your primary email address, use any @mailnesia.com address instead. Email verification links are visited automatically in the background to validate the account instantly!

My current vBulletin banned email addresses list looks like this:

Code:

@mail.ru

@yandex.ru

@yandex.com

.ru

.cn

@moreprobe.com

@sina.com

@hush.com

@buyorganicsheabutter.com

@tennese.bee.pl

@gawab.com

@e-mail.com

bee.pl

@zoho.com

@hushmail.com

@hush.com

@fastmail.fm

@mail.com

@mailinator.com

@web-maill.com

@126.com

@mailnesia.com

@djbaxter Yes you can totally block China. You don't do it with IP range. You do it with TLD
That was so funny last night. As I was watching Black Hack Down, I was looking at my who's online and all those red dots of no permission kept on popping up as machine guns was erupting on TV
At one point I was tempted to redirect to China military site. Let them crack down on their people

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Originally Posted by kh99 (Post 2401908)

Looks good - but now I feel like I'm a competitor. :)

As for the ip banning, I was considering that, but the problem I have is that I feel if ips are going to be banned automatically, you also need a way to monitor the process and search and remove ips, as well as a way for someone to contact you if they get banned by mistake, and then it turns in to a major thing. What I was thinking of doing in the next release (some time this week) is to use the login "strikes" system so that at least it wouldn't be possible for anyone to try too often. I'm also going to try to include a summary email option instead of one per registration.

As it currently stands.
I redirect anyone that trips this mod to a bot trap which writes to the .htaccess file.
Now that does give an option to be unbanned.
This is not my code by any means. Just free stuff on the net.

Code:

http://danielwebb.us/software/bot-trap/

Why couldnt this mod have this basic idea implemented into it?
That would fix the problem if ip addresses changing, old bans etc.
I mean if it was to be coded to suit this mod then you would add a "melt ip after X" option and perhaps a way to view the bans.

Here is how it spits it out for me.

http://www.ftw.net.au/blacklist.dat

Like i said its really simple yet it stops them in there tracks.

Thanks again everyone. I'll consider putting something like that in. I'm working on it here and there when I get a chance, but I hope ot have another version out soon.

I'm working on a version with more features, but it's going to take a while so I thought I'd release an update with the features I've had ready for a couple weeks now. Also, some people may be happy with the basic functions, so I'm thinking of maintaining this one as a "light" version.

There are no bug fixes so there's no pressing reason to update, but I've added the following:

- Timer for enforcing the minimum time for legitimate registrations
- Optional maximum time limit
- Time limits for filtering email notifications
- Option to post notifications to a thread

The posting to a thread feature is simple and requires an existing thread, but I'll be improving it in future versions.

Ack - 1.1.0 had a small problem with posting notifications to threads (if you use that option), so I fixed it and called it 1.1.1 (this is only a problem if you downloaded v1.1.0, within the past couple hours or so, but if you did you should update).

Sorry for any inconvenience.

thank you for the update...

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Originally Posted by kh99 (Post 2404629)

I'm working on a version with more features, ... so I'm thinking of maintaining this one as a "light" version.

Whoohoo!!,... not surprised here. ;)

kh99,
Can you explain the setting for Force Wait for Minimum Time
How does it also not force the spambots to wait for same amount of time?

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