I installed 4.0 withouth this mod and have no Bot-Registrations any more... Previously perhaps 10-30 bots/day blocked though this mod...

Bruno

I'm also trying to stop the flow of so many emails. Any word from anyone on how to actually stop these things. I get about 50 per day!!!!

Read the thread. It's already been posted several times. You just comment out a line or two in a plugin. But, like I said, it's been asked and answer a few times already.

I did read the thread which is why I quoted a post responding to the commenting out procedure and how it gave that user an error. I'm looking to confirm if there is an error free way of stopping the emails.

You didn't quote what they did at all, so no one is able to correct the code. Yes, there is an error free way to do it as I don't get my 50+ emails a day at all.

Clicking the little arrow next to the quote allows you to see what the user I quoted was responding to on page 21:


Which is a failed method it seems. Can you please let me know how to properly remove the emails?

I'm attempting to install this tonight, but was doing the research this morning.

I'm going to follow the install instructions and then do the following modifications that I researched by simply reading the thread posts...

Include IP address in Emails: Post #89 or Post #240

Auto-Ban: Post #141

Stop Emails: Post #50

If I get too many emails, I'll do the stop email mod to it.

That's the line I commented out and it works fine for me.

I've just installed IsBot and StopForumSpam in my 3.8.2 forums. After carefully studying what they do, I realized they essentially automate the same successful bot-blocking strategies I've been using manually for over 2 or 3 years. Wish I'd found them l-o-n-g ago. Duhhh!

Between them I have every expectation they'll eliminate 99.5% of all spambot registrations and cut the risk of spam-posts to a minimal level. I suspect I'll be able to stop moderating new registrations almost completely. We'll see. But that's my guess.

Thanks! :D

Comment: Although the Addon seemed to work fine, I uninstalled it because the StopTheRegistrationBots Add-on does the same thing this does plus much more. I also plan on installing the Advanced Registration AddOn as well to help keep out the bots and get new user registrations out of moderation mode.

Does this mod work with vB4? If not then can the author please update this mod. It is really useful for everyone.

In my readings here I see no sign that it has been updated for version 4 yet. But I haven't noticed too many v4 users calling for it yet either. That may be because many of us are still biding our time and sitting around waiting for most of the roaches, headlice and fleas to get chased out of v4 before we give it to our members.

Be patient. Sooner or later many of these addons are likely to get migrated up to version 4.

Only problem with that is there is a new wave of registration emails and ip's (new proxies??) that the bots/spammers are using now and they blow right through the Stoptheregistrationbots mod.. It uses stopforumspam.com database, and I dont think they have the people using it as much either

As for vb4, I am going to install this and try to register a test account and see if it errors out or not.. I have 2 vb4 forums that I would LOVE to use this on..

Also, can SOMEONE please update this to 4 so we can install it on production forums??

You know, IDawg, I think you're confused here about what StopTheRegistrationBots does. AFAIK, I does not in fact use the vbStopForumSpam database at all. As I understand it, as its first line of defense StopTheRegistrationBots is basically designed to do what IsBot does and measure the amount of time it takes a "registering user" to complete one registration form and move to the next one. If that time is too short StopTheRegistrationBots instantly blocks the 'user' from registering because he's "too fast to be human". But in addtion to those capabilities, it is also designed to include and require entry of a hidden form field that the normal vbulletin registration form does NOT include and if that field is NOT provided, then it concludes the registration attempt is being made by a bot that's sending it data based on the normal vb registration form and not the one StopTheRegistrationBots is designed to use and blocks it. In addition, it includes features that allow the Site Admin to quickly change the name of that hidden field on the form so that the information the register.php program expects to receive from the form can quickly be changed to a new field with a different name to help the site admin detect and block bots.

From what I've read, none of these features have anything whatsoeever to do with the vbStopForumSpam database. So I basically think you're confused here.

Also, for the record, I haven't yet installed vb4. But from what I know about these tools, I can't see any reason why this patch wouldn't be easy to move over to vb4. Then again, perhaps I've missed something.

I hope this clarification helps.

Installed on v4 and I was able to register a test account fine, so it seems to work so far.

Could someone with a bit of VB coding knowledge please tell me how I would edit this line of code to ensure the emails go to matt@pesgaming.com.

This does not seem to work:

Try:


Replacing yourname@yoursite.com with your own email address.

you might want to remove your email from here unless you want heaps of spam or enclose it in code tags atleast.

Oops, thanks for catching that. Post above fixed. ;)

I hope to see this mod for vBulletin 4.x in the future.

It works fine on vb 4 now.

ok, thanks :cool:

I just noticed something with this mod for vb 4. According to the instructions, we need to add this to the register template:


But for vb 4 it would need to be:


Do we needs to preRegister the isbot_time1 variable in the code for the register template?

That worked, thank you.

Can we do something so that it shows spammers IP in email it sents to admin?

Is possible to modify this plugin to work with newthread pages instead of register?
It should calculate the time between these pages:
newthread.php?do=newthread
newthread.php?do=postthread

I tried changing the plugin hook to newthread_form_start and newthread_form_complete but it don't work, any ideas?

Thanks

So reading this, is the mod v4.x compatible or not?

The mod is NOT compatible with vb4 out of the box, but there is a few simple change you can make to make it work.

1. Install as instructed, except add this line to the register template instead:
2. Go to Admin CP -> Plugins & Products -> Plugin Manager.
3. Look for the register_form_complete hook for the isBot product and click Edit.
4. In the Plugin PHP Code text box, add the following line below the only line of code there.
5. Click Save and you're done.

Now you just have to wait for a bot to come along to test it.

I added it to both hooks as I wasn't sure which one to add it to. It works but I'm not sure which hook is making it work.

You also need to do the value="{vb:raw isbot_time1}" in the template for vb 4.

Just the "register_form_complete" is enough.

You're right. I forgot to mention that. I've corrected my post above. Thanks.

I thought you had to pre-register the variable, to make it viable for that hook, if you used it in another hook, too. The pre-register stuff is still new to me.

No problem. ;)

Pre-registering is NOT necessary for hooks.

Pre-registering is necessary if you want to write a PHP variable into a template, which is what the isBot code in the register_form_complete hook needs to do.

Pre-registering is NOT necessary for extracting values from the web form, which is the case for the other hook.

Noted. Thanks.

Well, it is working fine on 4.0.6:

Where in the template must I add this line ?
<input type="hidden" name="isbot_time1" value="${vb:raw isbot_time1}" />

Follow the instructions that come with the mod. There is only one instruction that requires you to add a line into one of the templates. That would be the place.

Followed all instructions, but the bots keep registering. Driving me nuts.

What do you have the time to check set at?

Your problem is probably not bots. Humans are now doing the registering. Check this thread out....http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/showt...14#post2098014

I kept it at default. 15 seconds.

Try setting it higher. Start with 20 and see if that helps at all.