Please bear with the noob here :D

I installed this into VB 3..6.10. Seems to be ok, but there is no usergroup listed as vbStopForumSpam Permissions. Was I supposed to put this in, or did I miss something?

Also, where do I find the log?

Thanks for you help. :up:

**Edit**
I just realized that this killed my registration process. I will take a screen shot and post it showing the errors. I must have screwed something up.

Gotta remember NOT to drink vodka and install mods to my site :-)

Yes please do send me a link to the screenshot so that I can look at why its killing your reg.

If you cant find the log, then I suspect that you havent uploaded the files required for the mod

Brilliant idea, I've been using their database for a while now and having to remember to update the blocked IP's and emails was getting hard to remember. This will ease some off the pressure on us to keep the address lists up to date, thank you.
I only found out about this mod as it's linked to from vBulletin.com on this post
http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/showp...&postcount=157
, that doesn't happen too often ;)

I made the changes to both forums but it did not resolve the problem.
Any other suggestions?

Thanks.

the DATEDIFF function is in mySQL as of version 4.1.1. You are using 4.0.x which has support discontinued as of Sept 2006. Time to upgrade??

I will update the XML so that the plugin doesnt install when the SQL version is under 4.1.1

Thanks pedigree. Excellent mod. Nabbed 30 dirty spammers in the first 12 hours. Can't wait for the submit feature.

As mentioned in my previous post, I have MySQL 4 on one site but I have MySQL 5 on the other site and it has the same problem with the database errors.

FYI, www.stopforumspam.com was down for a while due to the bandwidth being exceeded.

Also, add a space after the // (like below) to find the edit location (which is on line 522 on v3.7.3 PL1)


Pedigree, I messed around w/ your code snippet for a bit, and made it into a plugin. No edit needed, wahoo!

It puts the box at the end of the first column. One plugin is for JUST the USER ID of 1, the other is for the admin usergroup (6 by default). Looking at it more, it needs some tweaking to use the default themes, but otherwise it works fine. Having this built into the "delete as spam" would be awesome. IIRC, someone has already suggested this, right?

yeah, you dont want to know how much bandwidth the server used last month. Its something that were looking at addressing but I guess the site is just becoming more popular.

Thanks, I was going to make this a plugin as well but it was late :) Ill see how it can be integrated into the "delete as spam" . Im guessing a "delete as spam and submit spammer to stopforumspam.com" would be better but not so easy on the eye :)

I was wondering how people would react to me including some of the One Touch Spam Ban and Cleanup util into this (https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=156444). The author sadly passed away in a tragic caving accident and it would be a shame to see something just dispear into the ether when it could be included in vbStopForumSpam in such a useful manner as to submit as well as cleanup.

Just insdert a page into the spam/ban process. Don't know if there's any hooks in there though. Worst case you can make a hook and put it in there.

I see the 2 products as two parts of the spam battle. This mod is proactive (assuming they've been caught somewhere else already), whereas the other mod is retroactive (they've already spammed your forum).

I can see the One Touch Spam Ban and Cleanup growing into a major utility (assuming it is integrated into the Delete and Ban option), in that after banning, it could do some basic searching in the user DB and find similar members. I know the Delete and Ban option does this to a certain extent, but it could go a bit deeper and look for users w/ the same class C subnet or domain, etc. Maually approve bans of course. If it could let you ban multiple users from the AdminCP search result area, I'd be eternally grateful. I have tons of spammers to ban lol! Anyway, this product could definitely benefit from the plugin that sends data to vBstopforumspam.com.

I can easily add an option that shows other users on the same class-c subnet when showing details about a user

Thanks for the hack.

Just installed and registered for an API key.

I hope this helps get rid of the spam I have recently been having.

Wired1,

I've never added a plugin before. I undertand the product setting (vbStopForumSpam). But which hook location and execution order would I need to tag if any? Thanks!

Just go to the Plugin Manager, add a new plugin and upload the XML file that Wired1 posted (theyre in my first post in the thread as well) - but just one of them. One is for just the admin account to use, the other is for all admin accounts to use. The // QUICK LINKS thing is if you want to manually edit files, which I doubt you would want to do.

Aha! Got it! I didn't notice the 'upload' category earlier. Thanks again, pedigree. You've helped stop a thousand spammers in the past month on our small board, and your consistent support is admirable. Nominating for MOTM.

Hi Pedigree, just installed your addon, but I have a question.
If I don't have cURL installed, will your addon still work?

yes it will use file_get_contents() if cURL is not availible

Ok, thx, delphiprogrammi for your quick response

Delphi is dead right. cUrl support is there for those that have it and want to use it. It provides a more robust connection system but doesnt require it. I just like using it myyself which is why its there :)

I've been using that StopForumSpam for some time to track the spammers and such. But, I had never seen this mod. Thanks, tagged. :D

When ever I enable this, it stops spammers but it also causes new registrations to get this...

anyone else getting this

nicker looks like a problem with your forums I think as any error generated by the mod should cause a more serious (ie informative) error but without the correct url to the forum in question, I couldnt tell you. PM me with the forum address and I can have a look. Sometimes, if there is an error and the server has started sending a compressed page, that can cause strange errors that often have nothing to do with the problem but sometimes (in Firefox anyway as IE is a peice of s**t) you get the correct error.

I tried to register using Firefox on 2 different pc s, when I disabled the product the registering was fine.

PM on way.

thanks

All fixed :)

Pedigree, thanks for all your help, it's reassuring to know that top class support is available here.

10/10 for you.

I just added "wired1" plugins to be able to to add to the vBstopforum database without leaving the AdminCP function.

https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showpost....&postcount=289

I wasn't sure what to do, so I added both his XML plugins.

Now I seem to have two boxes added to the user profile, which appear identical. I assume my mistake was that I should have imported onlt one XML plugin, but now I don't know how to get rid of one of them?

I only want usergroup #6 (Admins) to be able to use this function, so I assume I need to delete the XML for the plugin that isn't that one?

Where do I find it?

Thanks for any help... :)

Regards,
Badger

Remove both from the plugin manager, then install the one you want.

Thank you ... :)

I unchecked the plugin with "1" and only one box appeared after that in the user profile.

BYW, thanks for this plugin. :up:

It's far more convenient then having to open up the web site in a separate browser window and cut-n-paste ...

Regards,
Badger

I seem to be having a problem with the plugin... I'm getting this error:

Registration denied. We check new registrations against a database of known forum spammers. At this time, we are unable to contact this database to verify your registration. We are sorry for the inconvenience but please do try again later.

Though I have no issues checking manually from the website.

Thats the message you get when youre on the blacklist and you try to register. If you look in the logs, youll see what field the denied registration was based on

It says it cannot connect to the DB to check in the error message, not that they're blacklisted... Also, that is the message I get when I try to register an alternate account. I KNOW for a fact I'm not blacklisted.

You know what, I think I found out the issue... It's with my host, not the mod.

great. what was it? just so that i can look at code around it or incase others find the same problem

I wanted to order the logs by IP Adress, and got this error:

Reading is fundamental :)

Sometimes I think Wired1 watches this thread like a hawk :)

Thanks for this mod. I've installed it in conjunction with "Stop the Registration Bots" so if they get through that, they have your mod to contend with. Mwhahahaha! :D I'll be seeing how this goes - I looked at your site and it looks very comprehensive so I hope this will go a long way toward stopping the spammers from getting to my members! :cool:

Maaaayyyybbbeee.....

Nice plugin, and saves me from writing my own. Gotta love it!

When might we see Project Honey Pot included? SFS and PHP pretty much overlap, but I've found a few comment spammers in one but not the other and the ones I worry most about are those who haven't been around long enough to be widely detected yet.

Thanks for the plugin!