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Quarterbore · #**134** 10-22-2008, 06:16 PM

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Originally Posted by ATVTorture

Is there any way to make this script show the IP address the potential bot came from. That would allow us to be able to reconginize a common subnet and ban that entire subnet.

Thanks!

I use the proxy checker to address this issue:

https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=131852

Spam bots almost always use a proxy IP so I use the script I linked to set to a later execution order to moderate users that registered from a known proxy IP. Every now and then I have to approve a user that must be real but I have not had a problem with bots registering for a while but I have a custom antispam setup that combines a number of scripts plus custom user fields that make my site just not worth the effort it would take to spam them.

Then, the one touch ban and cleanup takes me 1-second to remove the spammer that does try to get through. Life is getting better thanks to the great mods that have been shared here!

I am upgrading one of my sites to 3.7.x this weekend and I plan to install this on the new install as I like the move to the DB where it can not be faked.

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