Prevent Spam Posts
 

Description
This will allow you to automatically scan new posts from new members for common spam keywords. If any are found, the post/thread will be sent to the moderation queue to prevent their spam from having any affect. If your filter is very strict, and a regular user happens to trigger it, no harm is done because your moderators can just approve the post.

Options

• Maximum Posts - this will only scan posts posted by users who have this many (or less) posts. Usually spammers only post 1-5 times!

• Keywords - a list of keywords (or any strings) to be searched. Remember it doesn't match a whole word, so a keyword of "[url" will block the user from posting any links. This is NOT case sensitive!

3.5 Users:
A 3.5x version XML file is also included.

oh sweet goodness....:D

there is a similar one here

what is the difference with yours?

Just looked at it - not a whole lot. Similar results with different code.

ok, thanks. Was just looking for the better one :-)

Awesome! Thank you for sharing. ;)

this is a good modification.

Nice job, thank you for posting it on vborg. Keep up the good work!

Yeah this is handy, however spammers can work out how to bypass this, and try and spam the site still, however I like it when they waste there time, because I just come along and prune all there posts in a second flat lol.

Just blocked a few spammers today. Works flawless so far. Nice job!

You can keep adding to your keywords filter as they start spamming new things, but the "[url" filter should still cover 95%+ of it.

Thanks for this! :)

Would this block a post made with the enhanced editor and the user has added a smilie via the smilie selection box?

No, it shouldn't.

Hello,

I've just installed this interesting looking modification. I see there are already a few words in there to help start off.
I'm wondering if there are few more keywords/phrases that others have found that would be good to add on?

Perhaps these words could be pm'd me, as I doubt these words would be good to be viewable on this board.

I wrote up the default list without too much thought. I've never had a problem with spam so I just used examples that I often saw here or on other popular boards.

I would suggest adding "nokia" to your list, though it catches URLs which is about 99% of all spam.

I just added all www. and http:// and all that as new members with under 5 posts dont have much reason to post links.....
Or generaly in my experience they don't unless there spamming.

Yep that's right. FYI if you just block "[url" they can't post links (even if they don't enter [url] vB will add it automatically before it's checked).

Giving this one a spin Adrian. :)

The first word I will add is "phone" as our recent spammers are advertising cell phones.

Awsome, installed and working great :)

thanks

I removed the [url from the banned words. It was blocking too many noobies.
But I've added playstation.

Are there any screen shots?

Happens. ;)

Before:
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/external/2007/01/18.gif

After:

:rambo:

installed...

thanks you for a great hack!!! really needed this

SirAdrian, would you be able to create this add onto your hack?
If a spammer registers, then posts a thread with these keywords in your list, can there be a PM ban on that user or allow the user to goto into a different usergroup.

As if they post spam i dont really want them to go spamming via PM system.
But if it turns out that its not spam, a mod will see the thread in the list and allow.

What do you think anyway?
thanks

Possibly... It may be better to scan new private messages as well (though you can't moderate those).

I'm pretty stacked right now, but I'll think about it when I get some free time in December.

Yeah im not in a big rush for it, it would just top of the hack

so yeah whenever you get a spare bit of time

Thanks :)

Where (how) do we add to the list of banned words? I didn't see anywhere to do that. :confused:

Thanks,

Bob

Go to your vBulletin Options and scroll through the list until you see Prevent Spam. Click on that :)

This doesn't prevent mailto: links, does it? I just had a spammer post links to his email address while using this hack.

Add "[email" to your list of keywords.

Thank you, it's right where you said to look. :)

And I had a pleasant surprise when I went to my forum. I caught one of those spammers in this new trap! LOL :laugh:

Excellent MOD. I'm nominating it for MOTM. :cool:


Bob

I'm going to update this soon to prevent people from editing posts (using these same conditions).

Great Job SirAdrian :)

Here are a few more words which may prevent spamming to some extent:

Bullet-Proof
Cialis
Ciallis
Credit/Debit_card_update
OEM_Software
Pharmacy
Popular_soft_-_very_low_price
Rolex
Softtabs
SouthTrust
Valid_Marketing
Viaagra
Viagra
Viccodin
Xannax
antidotes
l8OO_0rder_N0W
pharmaceutical_
vaigra

Absolutly amazing hack, just installed will see results instantly i'm sure. Is there a way to add a seting to simply delete the emails rather then sending them to a moderation queue ? Or even go as far as deleting the user?

This hack is so simple, yet so useful.. Thank you :)

I wondered if it scans thread Titles, or if that was possible. I have idiots trying to exploit my Top 5 stats that was patched months ago with a meta refresh as the title. They don't work, but it would be great to have these ditched too.

Great Work.

Anyway to add the option to simply auto-delete those posts/threads and perhaps the option to ban the user as well?

It works like a charm here :) Caught one idiot trying to post the same post several times... Ahhh, succcckkkerrr! :D

Scanning the title is possible, so I'll add that to the next version. Banning or auto-deleting the post isn't really what this is about, and will be problematic when you get false positives (though that depends on your keywords).

Beautiful! And much needed as we seem to be under attack. Thanks for the brilliant hack! Installed :)