Ok, it looks like one of my mods made a MASSIVE error and tried to delete a post from a good user and ended up REMOVING USER though the spam-o-matic tool.

This is thousands of posts, hundreds of threads, blog posts, visitor messages, etc.

Anyway to get these back? My automatic backup tool grabbed a partial backup from about 3 hours before this happened, and a full backup about 27 hours before it happened, which is now 30 hours ago.

The reason for the detail in here is that I need to know how the posts and threads were deleted, are they just wiped out so I can add them back in with a SQL dump? Then SQL dump the user information back in as well?

Hi StonePilot,

How the posts are deleted and what happens to the uer itself, depends on how you set the options on the mod in your vBulletin's Control Panel.

I installed it recently, but set it to use the minimum security levels I could imagine, without leaving basic stuff on.

I would suggest you restore one of those two backups ASAP. Which one to use, depends on how important that user is. If it's way too important, simply restore the last complete one (done 30 hrs ago) and just make a public apologize to all your users. Things like this happens. Nothing we can do to prevent it sometimes. They will understand.

Cheers.

BTW what I don't know is what will happen to that specific user from now on. If his IP, address and username was sent to the spammers DBs, I think you will have to go to each one of those two sites and send a letter to their webmasters or something. I didn't see any "send good infor about this user to spammers lists" button anywhere in this addon.

Any ideas yet on why it doesn't work at all for me? Like I mentioned before, it is working great on a 3.8.6 version of vB, but I can't get it to work at all for a 4.1.3 version and it's driving me crazy with all the spam coming in :( No logs, nothing.

Just not working :(

Did you try removing everything (files, product and plugins) for this mod and re-installing it?

Yes, several times :(

Turned my forum off for now :( I am guessing **X***Rum*er has hit it (sorry for the **, I don't want it to get any recognition).

What a pain! I am not sure why this mod is not working on my forum :(

Anyone?

Statistics & Logs > GlowHost - Spam-O-Matic Logs ?

Settings > GlowHost - Spam-O-Matic > StopForumSpam: Desired Action > Log and block registration ?

It sounds to me like you are not able to connect to the stopforumspam.com website. You may need to ask your host for assistance on why you cannot connect.

It doesn't do anything with them that you do not specifically tell it to do with them. Check your settings. Then read the on-screen instructions/options when you choose the Spam-O-Matic option from the moderation tools menu.