PHPKD - vB Spam Assassin
 

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Name: PHPKD - vB Spam Assassin
Version: 4.2.202

Description: This product adds completely new level of Spam protection to your forum, just by one click you can clean the mess & delete all spam content posted by any Spammer (threads, posts, ..etc), human registration timer also prevents Spam registrations.



Thankful Partnership:

• Many of our products are the result of cooperation between our customers and us. Our flexibility and willingness to sit together, share ideas and escort the project through its design cycle ? even beyond the technical stage ? makes us true partners to our customers.
• Thanks must go to our main partner in this project "Steven Baron" ( www.hostboard.com ) for his finantial support & idea formation.

Compatible with: All 4.0.x/4.1.x/4.2.x vBulletin versions.


Requirements:

• vBulletin version 4.0.x/4.1.x/4.2.x

License:

• http://opensource.org/licenses/MIT

Features:

• General Features:-
  
  • Fully Phrased.
    
  • Fully Automated.
    
  • Fully Supported.
    
  • Accurate Processing.
    
  • Professionally Coded.
    
  • Detailed Documentation.
    
  • Doesn't require any manual file edits.
    
  • Zero additional queries, only while executing process.
    
  • Depends on & uses default vBulletin techniques with full compatibility.
    
  • The product's code base is very solid/rich & has many possibilities to help in future development.
    
  • Email pre-verification feature, you can prevent registration until email verified first by the user.
    
  • Registration human verification process depends on ellapsed time through the registration (compared to random time period chosen from a range determined via AdminCP).
    
  • With just only one click, you can delete all traces of any spammer: select which data should be deleted (Post Data: Threads, Posts, Polls, Announcements and Subscriptions / Social Data: Social Groups, Picture Albums, Picture Comments and Visitor Messages / Calendar Data: Calendar Events, Calendar Moderation, Event Reminders and Event Subscriptions / Third Party Data: Any third party data related to this spammer in other software like Blogs & Others! / Delete/Ban User Account: Ban/Delete User Account, PMs, Sessions, Logs, Permissions, Relationships And Profile Assets & Traces) and optionaly (according to product's settings) Ban IP(s), Ban Email(s), Force Soft Deletion For Applicable Data Types, Send Email Notification To Spammer.)
    
  • Report actions to staff via private messages and/or new thread in specified forum.
    
  
  
• Specific Features:-
  
  • Product Active
    
  • Registration Human Verification Countdown Timer Active
    
  • Registration Human Verification Minimum Wait Time Period (seconds)
    
  • Registration Human Verification Maximum Wait Time Period (seconds)
    
  • Disable Submit Button Until Wait Time Period Pass
    
  • Spam Notification: Staff Handler
    
  • Spam Notification: Notified Staff Members
    
  • Spam Notification Forum ID
    
  • Registration Spam Notification
    
  • Powerful Usergroup IDs
    
  • Include/Exclude Users
    
  • Included/Excluded Users IDs
    
  • Include/Exclude Usergroups
    
  • Included/Excluded Usergroups IDs
    
  • Banned Usergroup
    
  • Banned Usertitle
    
  • Ban Options (IP Address - Email)
    
  • Spam Registration Failure Action (Failure MSG - Failure Redirect)
    
  • Spam Registration Failure MSG
    
  • Spam Registration Failure Redirect
    
  • Email Pre-Verification: Active
    
  • Email Pre-Verification: Code Expiration
    

Installation Procedure:

1. Upload required files to their appropriate places:
   
   • clientscript
     
     • jquery
       
       • jquery-1.9.1.min.js
         
   • includes
     
     • xml
       
       • bitfield_phpkd_vbsas.xml
         
     • class_dm_phpkd_vbsas.php
       
2. Import product's XML "product-phpkd_vbsas.xml" file from AdminCP.
3. Go to: "vBulletin AdminCP -> Settings -> Options -> PHPKD - vB Spam Assassin"
   Configure product's settings as you wish, add "Notification Staff Handler".
4. You're Done :).

Upgrade Procedure:

1. Same as "Installation Procedure", but "Allow Overwrite" for both file uploads & product import.

Controls:

• vBulletin AdminCP -> Settings -> Options -> PHPKD - vB Spam Assassin

Help with:

• Suggestions to develop this product.
• Contributing any updates, upgrades and/or any new features.
• Translations to benefit more users (translation credits goes to their owners).
• Spreading this product. Yes, you're free to re-distribute this product limitless wordlwide (Read License).

History:

• v4.2.100 01/08/2013 10:00 AM UTC: First initial 4.x.x public release.
• v4.2.200 13/09/2013 10:00 AM UTC: Second Generation - Featured public release.
• v4.2.201 26/09/2013 10:00 AM UTC: Maintenace public release.
• v4.2.202 01/03/2014 10:00 AM UTC: Maintenace public release.
  • Fixed 'no permission' issue with misc.php (aka: smilies page)

Technical Stats:

• New Plugins: 12
• New Phrases: 104
• New Templates: 5
• Manual Template changes: 0
• Auto Template changes: 5
• New Files: 3
• Manual File Changes: 0
• New vBulletin Settings: 22
• New Usergroup Permissions: 0
• New Moderator Permissions: 0
• New Administrator Permissions: 0
• New Forum Options: 0
• New DB Tables: 1
• DB Alterations: 0
• New Cronjobs: 0
• New FAQ Items: 0
• New Help Topics: 0
• New Style Variables: 0
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• Installation Level: V.Easy
• Installation Time: ~20 seconds

Reserved..!

So other than a wait period, does this do anything to prevent spam registration (ie RBL lookups, stopforumspam, etc?)

There are already some great modifications (i.e. [GlowHost] Spam-O-Matic, vbStopForumSpam, etc.) that have already been released on here that do this. I wanted to provide a modification that does something that no other modification does as even with modifications that attempt to block spam registrations unfortunately some do get through.

This is where Spam Assassin comes into play as you can remove from every location every instance of the perpetrators posts and either ban or delete their account faster then it took them to register and actually make those posts. All it takes is 4 clicks!

Thank you for the question :)

Suggested feature: Auto report spammer to the SFS database?

Thank you for the suggestion. This is something we are discussing as well as adding more functionality overall.

Thanks. I'll add one more: For various reasons, I prefer not to physically delete posts. Instead, forum staff move them to a quarantine area in case they are needed to respond to later complaints (I know my main forums are niche forums but believe me this has happened more than once in the past and I was grateful at those times that we had such a policy). My suggestion, then, is that one of the options could be "move all posts" rather than or in addition to "delete all posts".

I think this feature plus the suggested feature above would make this an extremely useful add-on.

This would only work for actual posts. Unfortunately there is no way to move the other areas that SA looks at. These areas would still be deleted.

Again thank you for your suggestions.

Yes. It's the posts that I would want to preserve.

Thanks PHPKD this is a great mod it works perfect in 4.2.1

What kind of message does a user receive in case of too fast registration? under 25 seconds in my case

I've done everything as per the directions say for install.

Everything works to the point it doesn't delete the post nor the user. But it places a guest tag across the user name? is this how it's suppose to work? I just thought it would delete the user and its info

Currently there is no default message as the registration button is just deactivated. We have just revisited the list of things to do and re-looking at the logic.

We will be releasing an update shortly.

What is the Banned User Group set to? What is the Banned User Title set to? What is the setting for Ban Spammers rather than Deleting them?

Sound like you are banning the user and setting some sort of title.

We will be double checking the modification as per my previous post, an update is pending with some additional functionality.

This update has many more features. Primarily this update deals directly with tightening registrations now giving you 2 levels of protection of which you can run; both, either or neither. Registration timer has been updated to reflect a warning message for an early click.

Please let us know of any bugs you come across and or any ideas or suggestions so we can take them into consideration.

There is already a version 3 on the drawing boards :)

thank you.

Updated...
Adjustment to email wording...
Language phrase added to validation page allowing explanation of what is happening...

Hello,

Big thank you, this mod solve the most annoying problem I had since the begging of the forum xD

But I notice a bug, when the mod active every usergroup except admin can't open smiles page, they get no permission ="(

Can this be fixed?

Best Regards,
Sarab

Which version of VB are you running? We have this on 3 production sites with no known issues but more then happy to look into it :)

does it use to block stop forum spam database?

I had this same issue on 4.2.0, uninstalled and problem went away

We will be taking a look at this and fixing it.

thanx...........

This is great! Where and how does it store banned IPs and Emails?

Disregard, I found it :) My question is that I have this set to move users to banned group, but I think they are being deleted?

The only delete option is when you click on the user ID and select "Delete as Spammer" Even then you are given options to Delete or Ban the user via the drop down menu. This ability is tied into the option within the ACP 'Banned Usergroup' If I misunderstood please let me know.

And yes an update is forth coming. We are just behind the eight ball...

Thanks for the quick response! I was having trouble locating spammers in the "banned" usergroup. I get the auto-email notification that they were stopped, but cannot find them anywhere in the db?

*** Sorry for the fix delay ***

• v4.2.202 01/03/2014 10:00 AM UTC: Maintenace public release.
  • Fixed 'no permission' issue with misc.php (aka: smilies page)

*** Sorry for the fix delay ***

There's something horribly wrong with this plugin. After installing it and setting it up, I was immediately IP banned.. When I got on with another IP, I checked settings and a bunch of IPs were added to the ban list, including mine several times. Any idea what could be doing that? Uninstalling for now -- way too dangerous.

After Insalling and uploading this Mod i got this problem please check it .. its gives too much empity space between header and body ...
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/external/2014/03/53.png

Unhelpful posts removed. Stick to the topic please.

Thank you Paul.

Everyone else we will be looking into the reported issues. Thank you for letting us know :)

Unfortunately that one doesn't take care of blogs, which are becoming a big deal (unless you pm someone to supposedly get a custom version written a long time ago).

Yes, it does. It deletes all board posts and blog posts made by the spammer and also bans the spammer.

If this is the mod you are referring to
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthrea...ight=Clean+ban

It doesn't say anywhere in the description that it deletes blog posts. Also the last few posts claim an individual has modified it to do so, but you have to PM them to get the modified code, and that was posted quite a while ago. I'm happy to be wrong -- are you saying the description is just missing the fact that it removes blog posts?

Nope and never did say that. I have the mod and use it, and it does delete blog posts.

I made no claim at all about the description.

I could have used this a few weeks ago. I had to use a query to remove spam blog posts on a client sites that has had spam posts going back for a long, long,long time. There were many thousand of blog posts. This mod would have made it sooooo much easier!

Spam Assasin works great thank you guys :D

You can also try using another modification of mine:
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=294660

Would like to, but it says it's unsupported and doesn't yet remove visitor message spam..