Is Bot: Registration Time Check
 

This mod calculates the time it takes to go between these two pages:

• /forum/register.php?do=register
• /forum/register.php?do=addmember

The point is to try and prevent bots from registering at your forum when the time between the two pages is humanly impossible, assuming that humans actually take the time to complete the registration page.

Should a user be blocked from registering at your forum, an email will be sent to your vB webmasteremail address and the user will see the vB noregister phrase message, so no screenshot is necessary.

Excellent idea - I'm sure this will make every admin's job alot easier! :)

Thanks,
Another cool tool..

Very good idea!! Excellent infact for sites that attract alot of bots

reserved :)

Thanks! This has the potential to be a great mod. Here's my original post with the request:

This is an excellent idea.

That's excellent. Thanks! :)

Marvelous! I installed this mod and a couple of hours later I got a notification in my email about a spammer being prevented from registering. It took the spammer 4 seconds to go between the pages.....I don't know anyone that fast.

Bloody awesome!

Thanks!

good idea, going to install now. Sick and tired of all the bots on my forum :D

btw, i think 15 sec is way too high.. it takes a bot less than a second to fill in the fields, decode captcha and press the submit button. :)

Great if this works I nominate it as Mod of the Month. :D

Maybe I spoke too soon. This mod just blocked an attempt by a @ukr.net address and then one minute later that darn same person spammed my site.

How did that happen?

Sorry, I just realized that spammer registered before I installed this mod.

Thanks!

Installed

It's pretty cool. In the one day that I've had it installed, this mod has blocked about 12 spambot attempts. However, the last attempt took 14 seconds to move between the pages so I assume that if they change their spambot to 16 seconds they would make it through and then I would have to change the mod to a higher number.

Anyway, I love this mod. :)

I just received my first email about a potential spammer:

The following user name with email address was blocked by the Is Bot mod: osceshop - osceshop@cashette.com (XX seconds transpired)


Needless to say it's feels good that one didn't get away without getting trapped :)

Could you please add more info into the mails?

Maybe the IP addy? Resolved too perhaps?

Anything else you can think of as well ;)

Great mod dude...hats off to ya....

edit: how about auto ban too? or maybe posting to a special forum with the details as well?

just a question, 15 seconds are enough? maybe 20 are better?

Perhaps a way to change the time without re-importing the product every time?

Other than thank you very much, and installed!

Again, I have to give my many thanks to the developer of this Mod. It blocks about 8 spambot registrations a day on my site. I'm using a similar mod on my phpBB2 site and both mods have saved me and my moderators plenty of anguish.

Good gawd... works awesome... even though I have other spam measures in place... they do not catch everything.

This mod, installed just 1 hour ago just caught me a mail.ru spammer.... Thank you.

One more idea for this:

How bout the option to add Groups who receive the email too?

This is such a great mod I think it deserves a consideration for being part of the core vB.

:)

have you settled the time to 5 secs instead 15?

I left it at 15 seconds, and during the night, caught MORE.

The following user name with email address was blocked by the Is Bot mod: deosaest - deosaest@cashette.com (1 seconds transpired)

The following user name with email address was blocked by the Is Bot mod: presley - presley@meta.ua (2 seconds transpired)

The following user name with email address was blocked by the Is Bot mod: DosugXT - dosug-x@nm.ru (1 seconds transpired)

WOW I am so happy, these were getting by before and I am running 3 other mods to prevent spam but this one is catching them.

I have to add this should be vb CORE as the other member stated above. This is fantastic. I am nominating for Mod of the month.

also nominated for MOTM. catching 10 spammers a day.

Nice mod. How long before the spammer applications start adding a delay though? :)

3 more

The following user name with email address was blocked by the Is Bot mod: adultdvt - adult@spivare.com (2 seconds transpired)

The following user name with email address was blocked by the Is Bot mod: Kghikeds - nilucoqog@mail.ru (3 seconds transpired)

The following user name with email address was blocked by the Is Bot mod: FeregeRR - anlrei_izrazov@mail.ru (7 seconds transpired)

I love this mod.

1,071 VIEWS of this mod and only 26 replies? wtf. This mod has made my day!!

finally INSTALLED ... :D

thank you. :)

just to verify....

after adding that line to the registration template and uploading the product, there is no listing of it in the vBulletins Options menu.

correct?

Yes, the only place I saw it was in the product listing.

correct

thank you. :)

This one didn't get by, it was blocked but the time factor of 13 seconds on this one concerns me. I wonder what a good time from would be to bump it from 15 seconds to 20 seconds?

The following user name with email address was blocked by the Is Bot mod: WebDocMan - webpharmastoreman@cashette.com (13 seconds transpired)

I haven't seen any spambot attempts the last few days (I had over 50 attempts the first two weeks) so I wonder if they are re-grouping and coming with a new attack.

This is a great idea.
What about also putting some sort of javascript timer in the registration agreement that generates a phrase that says something like "Unless you are Evelyn Wood, you could not possibly have read that agreement in such a short time! Please go back and read the registration terms before proceeding further"

Thanks for the thanks and nominations. :D

Maybe I'll add more info to the webmasteremail if I have the time. Anyway, just a tip... If you get a lot of the same domains showing up, go to vB Options -> User Banning Options and add the email there, if you want an added layer of protection from users/bots coming from those domains, just in case this mod doesn't stop them.

If you want to edit the seconds after import, just go to the Plugin Manager and edit the Is Bot plugin located at the register_addmember_process hook. There's no need to reimport each time. As for JavaScript, the bots probably ignore it so it'd have no effect on them.

Great addition .. clicked install

Thanks calorie

thx for the tip calorie :D

good job!

Well I hate to tell you but the vb options are BS... I have all the above email Addy's in there, 3 fold, before I installed your program and they got by. So far your mod seem to work the best.