I mean that the spam plugin blocks/stops them posting ,replying, quoting, attaching posts.
;)

Could be another plugin messing with this one or you have not config it right

as you can see from the attached, i've insterted the groups number to be protected by the plugin. Can you spot some mistakes in that?

need to see all settings in the plugin

i noticed little problem with the GSOM plugin,

if there is problem on outgoing traffic from vB
and you chose to ban & submit to SFS

then in the GSOM log is stays it submitted the user into SFS database w/o any indication o error

is this possible to improve or it can't be verified ?

Cool plugin, but there is a pretty serious oversight in this plugin which led to a ton of abuse recently.

The remote cache option states the following: "Duration in minutes that remote queries should be cached to reduce query traffic / lookup duration and load on the remote server"

However the code says this:

$sql = 'DELETE FROM '.TABLE_PREFIX.'glowhostspamomatic_remotecache WHERE `date` < DATE_SUB(NOW(), INTERVAL '.(int)$vbulletin->options['glowhostspamomatic_remote_cache'].' DAY); ';

So we were hit by a botnet (one new registration attempt every four seconds, not even exaggerating) and we were expecting that after an IP was reported, that we wouldn't see that IP registering again after the 30 minute cache timeout. This led to two issues:

1) The cache isn't cleared for the banned user immediately, meaning the bot could immediately reregister without SFS being checked for the new entry.

2) The cache was 30 days old, so the same IP would literally create thousands of accounts before the cache would clear and start reporting the abuse.

This also led to another observation of the code. The order of checks goes username, email, IP. However the order of checks (to take advantage of cache) should go IP, email, username. The code shouldn't even waste time querying for a bad username if it knows the IP is bad, so why put unnecessary strain on the SFS service by querying for username if the IP is bad?

So, as I said, great plugin, but it needs some changes to work properly on a high traffic site effectively.

Edit: I thought I'd mention how I changed the query. This should hopefully increase cache efficiency also:

$sql = 'DELETE FROM '.TABLE_PREFIX.'glowhostspamomatic_remotecache WHERE (`date` < DATE_SUB(NOW(), INTERVAL '.(int)$vbulletin->options['glowhostspamomatic_remote_cache'].' MINUTE) and is_spambot = 0) or (`date` < DATE_SUB(NOW(), INTERVAL '.(int)$vbulletin->options['glowhostspamomatic_remote_cache'].' DAY) and is_spambot = 1); ';

This would delete SFS negatives that are 30 minutes old, while letting SFS positives sit in the database cached for 30 days.

This was working for a couple of months now I see 20-30 spammers get by every morning

1136 Spammers Denied Registration

18 Spammers Permanently Banned

7 Spammers submitted to StopForumSpam

7834 Spammy Posts Automatically Moderated

Your fix took care of the error on line 108 I was getting in 4.2.1 when submitting I knew the product was working, but that error was driving me nuts. Thank you for figuring out the issue and posting the fix. Hopefully the author will incorporate your fix sooner than later.

nice mod - good work

not installed

i am prefer stop forum spam (traffic and load is very low)

You're welcome. :)

Stop Forum Spam is fine, but the ability to purge a spammer account and all traces while reporting the spammer is incredibly valuable to me. Remember, these a$$holes are running their scams and WE foot the bill. They are attempting to manipulate search engines with their garbage, and the more that is removed reduced their effectiveness.

There's a reason I removed the "welcome to our newest member code" from my site. Why would I want to welcome a potential spammer and potentially push up their internet search engine standing? Same thing goes for member listings...none of my forum members are listed until they have three validated posts.

Sorry for the rant, but this is a subject that is near and dear. Either way, if more forum owners were a bit more savvy and took more interest in purging/reporting spammers, we'd all be better off. ANY anti-spam tool is better than apathy.

Did this bug /security fix ever come out?
It's still says version 2.10 released 1/10/2103

The "Last Update:" item at the top tells you when the last update went out.

We are having a problem with this Mod, when enabled and a member posts it goes to a blank white screen and when i disable it everything goes back to normal, posts post normally.

Any ideas on what could be the issue?

Pm me your skype name will give u some help

pm sent,thanx

how can i stop moderate posts?
i dont want, that the moderators get the posts from new users to activate the posts, and i dont want prevent posts, too ..

i can only choose moderate posts or prevent posts.

how can "Moderation Tools" option be enabled only for administrator?? and moderators do not use it?

thanks mark as installed

Hi,

Our web servers are behind an Amazon load balancer in TCP mode (transport layer) - so they cannot see the IP address if a client. I could configure load Balancer in HTTP mode and get Amazon to pass X-Forwarded-For header. Will Spam-0-Matic work with this header? Or does it look for REMOTE_ADDR?

If I run HTTPS then I will have to terminate SSL traffic on the load balancer to get this header forwarded to the web server. Not very good from a security point of view.

Any other alternative if the above is not possible?

Glad to see you are still on this!! Have been using this and recommending it to clients for years!

Is there a list of changes or anything from the latest updates?

Thanks

Is there any way to filter out all messages that contain Chinese and russian letters? These seem to be the bulk of my spam.

Where did you see the old version number listed?

Thanks for the post, I will have a look at this and see what can be done.

Yes, we look for REMOTE_ADDR. You can modify the SOM sources to use any other header you want. Search & Replace will do the job in few seconds.

Thank you. Yes, there is a terse changelog next to the download in this thread. Sorry it cannot be more detailed.

Thanks for the new update - will this v2.1.2 remain in beta for long?

PS The update fixed the RSS feeds going to moderation problem -- Thanks again

This is not beta. The VB4 in the filename just refers to vBulletin version 4.

My bad, sorry I missed that. Thanks

I love this MOD, do you know if this will be updated for vB 5?

Doesn't vBulletin have a variable for this?

I been using this mod for quite sometime and i was working fine till last month. Since from last month i have hundreds & hundreds of spammers registering on my forum on daily basis. It's still blocking a lot of them which i am thankful :) but i am really tired of deleting hundreds of them on daily basis.

The problem is when i check their username or email at stopforumspam.com i see a huge list of those spammers, however for some reason they are still not being blocked and pass all the verification and register. Is there anything that can be done for this issue ??

One quick question which i can't seem to find is how can i delete those spammers and report them to stopforumspam as a spammer via admincp ??

I will appreciate if you can suggest me any better way to block these spammers :(

Thanks in advance.

Add this mod as well

Thanks n i hope this will help :)

Update : I did install the above mentioned mod as well and it's still not helping much. I still had about 45 spammers registered in past few hours. You think this should be normal ??? Any help/suggestions ?

Thanks in advance.

With:

1) [GlowHost] Spam-O-Matic
2) Spammers Suck! (or you could use Spambot Stopper)
3) NoSpam! Image Enhancement

= no spammers in a loooong time for me!

So let me ask you guys this, If i have Glowhost Spam-o-matic, Vbulletin Spam Management, Spambot Stopper are running all at the same time and let's say if install NoSpam on top of it, would that work fine ?? I mean running all these mods at the same time would be okay or should i just stick to one or two of them ???

Thanks in advance.

Hello..

i have 2 forum installed spam o matic, but i saw different thing in case like this:

first i delete one thread (soft delete), then i open the thread again, choose the post and hit the spam o matic menu, and confirm menu.

in my one forum, i got the user get banned, but no thread removed
in my second forum, i got the user get banned, but thread removed (hard delete).

i check all configuration is the same.. could someone one help me?

could have a look at it for you if you want pm me
I have some custom scripts I could add that will help can install them if u want

Hey guys. . i have a question. . why after install this plug in, i cannot post new thread??

Quote:

Originally Posted by krimznheidiz (Post 2428671) Hey guys. . i have a question. . why after install this plug in, i cannot post new thread??

Any number of reasons. There are some options that if enabled and not properly set up will stop anyone from posting on the forum.

Start by disabling the option below and see if that fixes it (at least until you set it up correctly).

https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/external/2013/06/18.jpg

Hi ForceHSS,

I have installed this one mod where you have to confirm your email before the registration and u can't register if u don't confirm your email via given code. So far it's helping me a lot. I would say it brought down spammers from 100 in 12 hours time to 5-6 in 12 hours, however they are still that pass this option as well. If this gets hectic i will contact u for sure. If that okay for you :)

Thanks for your help.

dont know this is a bug or not.

when a thread submited, and the member edit the 1st post and put lots of link inside it, the thread get moderated.

me (admin), try to approve the thread using the moderation tools, but the status of the post still moderated, i have to approve the post from the admincp.

very strange.. never had a problem like this before upgrade to 2.1.2

I know what you are talking about but think this is a vBulletin thing

It would be great if any action at all - made by a mod on a post
(disapprove / approve / move ) would then cause the mod notification to go away,
but this was happening for me before this latest SOM update too.

Never have figured out why sometimes need to approve it the before moderation notice goes away - sometimes not :confused: