Looking at the template code, anything that changes a template, either manually or automatically, will not work in vb4

This Mod works great.

How ever I am seeing a slight issue in my logs. Since installing yesterday it shows 39 entries and says 4 of them were approved, when I search for these users they do not exists. The log entries also are not associated with a user ID.

I ran a test and registered on my own and it worked fine.

When I looked at the approved accounts a couple of them were .ru email addresses so obviously they were spammers. But when I went to stopforumspam.com I couldn't find any reference to them.

I don't think the blocked accounts were legit by any means, but they said they were allowed. Would indicate to me there is a bug in the process some where.

I am running 3.8.3

I installed it and it works like a charm, Thank you:D

This has been covered but as the thread is getting long, its not a problem :)

What happens with "approved" is really a miswording (to quote Hillary Clinton). "Approved" means that its passed all the tests done by this mod, not by vbulletin. It means that this mod hasnt found a match on any of the fields that you are testing on and has passed control back to vbulletin for all its tests (dup email, banned ip, password length, catcpha testing etc). The registrations wouldve been stopped by one of the vbulletin tests as my mods processing takes place first because of the place in the scripts that its executed at.

Hope thats clear :)

If you find, in your logs, a spammer thats banned on username/ip address but you dont find an email address for them on the website, please feel free to add them to the databases (details on how to on stopforumspam.com)

Youre welcome :D

The fact that there was no reference to them at StopForumSpam.com is the reason that they passed inspection by this plug-in. Those would be the spammers that you want to make sure you add to the SFS list.

You could replace it in the next release with a more neutral wording like "no match found". Prevents questions I suppose :)

Belated congrats on the MotM award by the way!

Barteh - its already been changed to exactly that, "no match found"

And thanks, it was a great feeling to get listed on teh motd, let alone win it.

thanks, works great; already caught a potential spammer 1 min after install:)

The first question is are you moderating new members? I would advise you to if you aren't. If you are, when they see that it requires a second step to register, they realize that you are moderating new members and do not finish the registration process for fear of being discovered. They got that far because they were NOT in the SFS database. I've said it before and I'll say it again; All spammers are not in the database so you need to investigate them if they (new registrants) look suspicious. They aquire new e-mails and IPs all of the time. SFS does not have EVERY spammer listed which is why they count on us to report them. It also pays to check against other anti-spam sites too as a back up to SFS. There are several.