/includes/xml/

Otherwise in product manager simply click to "Browse" and locate the product.xml file in the folder on your computer to upload that way.

Also nice mod kh99, added to the list :D https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=276547

Thanks

Hello!

Good plugin.. thanks!

Now I'm using it with Spam-O-Matic (my first Bot filter).
Is it possibile to take action to "Spambot Stopper" after Spam-O-Matic and not before as default?

Thanks

I think it might be possible to do that by adjusting the "execution order" fields of the plugins on one or the other of the mods, but unfortunately I don't have time to test it. If you do decide to try it, maybe increase all the plugins for this mod by a fixed amount (which will make them run later than other plugins on the same hooks), so that they stay the same order relative to each other (I hope that makes sense). It may or may not work depending on which hook locations are used by Spam-O-Matic.

Hello kh99,
thanks for the tip... but it did not solve the problem :(

I've also seen a possible bug (after the execution order change and after reset).
In case of "bad" captcha, the user will retry to reinsert it (+password).
For this operation he takes little time (<20 sec)
In this case here the result:

The problem you're referring to is that if this mod catches someone registering too fast, it doesn't go through Spam-O-Matic?



I could look in to that if I get a chance. It could be that no one's mentioned that yet because spambots are getting by captcha, so people aren't using it.

I was referring to Spam-O-Matic priority (before this plugin).
No effect with your tip about "order".



it could be a reason....

kh99 do you think there may be a problem with runnin this mod and yours?

I was using a similar mod to yours and was having a conflict.
See here. https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showpost....&postcount=515

It's quite possible, but I haven't tested them together. When it comes down to it, any other mod that deals with registrations has a chance of conflicting with this mod, but all I can really do is try to deal with issues people report (and I don't even have a lot of time for that these days).

Are you having a problem with this mod conflicting with the db tech mod, or did you just want to let me know about the possibility?

I wanted to let you know but even more importantly I would like to use your mod as it is a great weapon in keeping away spam registrations. :)

Hello,

Installed Spambot Stopper via:
Plugin & Products \ Add/Import Product \ upload the XML

It now shows up under "Plugin & Products"...
But I don't see it listed under "settings \ Options" ??? what to do ???

Running VB 4.2.1
Screenshot of it listed in Add/Import Product
http://screencast.com/t/WvMNDkL2bA

Any help is appreciated, Thanks!
/Shane

I don't know why it wouldn't be there. It should be all the way at the bottom (or near the bottom) of the list of option categories.

Hi kh99, Thanks for the fast reply, very cool!

I had another look and no such luck (see screen shot)
http://screencast.com/t/x14Tx0rnq

- Is there any code to place in the "Add New Product Dependency"
- How About settings of "Product Dependency"?
Again with the screen shot: http://screencast.com/t/zNWsyzdUI7

I maybe a noob at Vbulletin but I'm col with looking over xml or PHP files and settings as well as looking in the DB if needed to debug... just point me in the right direction.

Thanks!
Shane

I think what you've done is to create a new product instead of importing mine. The Add / Import Product screen is a little confusing until you get used to it. If you're importing a product xml file, you only want to look at the top part of that page. You only need to Browse to find the xml file, then press the "Import" button, and ignore the "Add New Product" section under that.

So if I'm right, you can fix it by using "Manage Products" to uninstall that product, then try again using the Add/Import Product link.

Yes.. I think your are right...
I did select file but instead of clicking "import" I jumped down to the lower form and populated the fields under "Add New Product" then clicked [save]

Part of being a n00b...
Thanks for the rockstar help!

/Shane

Hi kh99, Thanks for the fast reply, very cool!

I had another look and no such luck (see screen shot)
http://screencast.com/t/x14Tx0rnq

- Is there any code to place in the "Add New Product Dependency"
- How About settings of "Product Dependency"?
Again with the screen shot: http://screencast.com/t/zNWsyzdUI7

I maybe a noob at Vbulletin but I'm col with looking over xml or PHP files and settings as well as looking in the DB if needed to debug... just point me in the right direction.

Thanks!
Shane

I can't see the top of the page on that screen shot, so I don't know which product you're editing, but you shouldn't be editing a product at all. You should only need to use the "Import Product" form on the "Add /Import New Product" page, and you should only need to use the Browse button to find the file on your pc, then press Import.

Your in the wrong screen by the look of it

Hey kh99.. Any word on if you are going to add the stats option to show on the forum kind of like how Spam Hammer Series 3 does it? Spam hammer series 3 is nice but 97 usd a year is just pushing the limits. thanks :D

Darn it. not compatible with vb 3.8.7... Can you code it for us vb3 users? thanks.

I don't have any any immediate plans to work on this, but I may in the future. I'm not familiar with the paid version of that other product, and it's not my intention to provide free versions of things people are trying to sell. But I did have plans to add logging of attempts to this product, and then it would be fairly easy to add stats.


vb3 version is here: https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=294651 but I don't think it's quite up to date with the vb4 version.

I installed Glowhost Spam O Matic onto my 4.2.2 site.

Is it okay to install this mod of yours as well?

I haven't tried it. I had someone tell me a while back in this thread that a feature of spam-o-matic was stopping the "post registration attempts to a thread" feature of this mod from working. I talked to a spam-o-matic guy about making a change to their mod to solve the problem, which they did, but the person who first complained about it said it still didn't work, and I never tried it. So, this mod should work with spam-o-matic, except possibly if you want to have this mod post to a thread and you use the spam-o-matic feature that stops spammers from posting, then you might not see the posts from this mod.

I hope that makes sense. If you decide to try it, let us know if things work ok.

Yes I have both running on my site and same version as yours

Interesting mod, any new features planned like a red herring spam trap? Instead of it being on a newreply/newthread area, try to make something similar for the registration?

https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/

I might have time over the next couple months to work on it, but I'm not sure. I have a half finished version that has logging and is restructured to make it easy to add on features, so if I get that finished you or I or someone could probably add a feature like that.

So I guess it could work by allowing the spammer to register, putting them in a special usergroup, then anything they try to post would post in a special forum?

A feature I would be interested in seeing in this beauty (elegant simplicity, that's what this hack is), is to report the country, from which the spammer came. I have the code ready to check an ip2country table in my database, but I have no idea where to insert it and how to pass the value to the email message it sends me.

When I get a chance I'll look at the code and see how difficult it would be to add something like that.

I am sorry to report that I have an issue with this.

I had it installed and it was working perfectly , yesterday alone it stopped 340 spam registration attempts.

I tried to add my testing code, which by the way, I'll gladly provide to you, and I have stopped receiving emails for spammers attempts. So, I uninstalled the product, downloaded it again and re-install it, and still no emails. What can be the problem? I tested my email account and the ability of vbulletin to send emails and they both work just fine.

It appears that the program doesn't catch the spammers. I raised the minimum time to 120 sec and I registered a test user, the registration went through fine.

Any ideas will be appreciated.

Further on this, what is strange, is that I do not appear to be bombed with spam registrations!!!!!

That is strange. I can't think of why that would happen. You didn't install any other mods in between?

I think I've found the reason. I have renamed my register.php file to something else. Your plugin refers to register.php in two locations. I've manually edited the xml file to point to that new file and I am awaiting to see the results.

Well still no email messages and no posts in the thread that I've specified, but at least I am not receiving any registrations by spambots. I do not know if it is your hack that stops them, or something else, but I sure miss those emails that I got, they made me feel safe.

I'm not sure why that would happen. I guess you probably double checked the email addresses you're sending to. Did you set "Limit Notifications By Registration Time" to anything?

Nope, that was not the problem.

I am dead right now, it is 10:30 pm and we just returned from the kids soccer match, but if you agree, I can PM you tomorrow morning with all the details. I think I have a pretty good idea of what was happening.

If you feel like it, I have some ideas on how to improve this hack, I used to have all these implemented in my vb 3.0.13 site and we had reduced spam to almost none.

The hack works fine now, so don't worry about it. Email addresses were fine, and no I didn't have anything in Limit Notifications.

More tomorrow.

Absolutely, if you think you've got info that will help me figure out your problem, send it to me. And send me any other ideas you have for the mod, although I can't promise anything right now.

can you integrate stopforumspam database api check

Just use this hack and also use vbStopForumSpam. They work fine together.

This also works well beside spam-o-matic, which checks the db.

There's no conflict, that is true. But with this working, SoM will have little to do since it won't see autospam anymore.

That is true. Very few spammers get as far as SOM, on our forum, with this installed. But I still like having that extra layer of security :)

Some of them are hiring students to physically create the accounts, at human speed.