[BirdOPrey5]

I played with this today, first off I think it's better to put the 1 line of code into your config.php file, not global.php.

But I had some issues... first all AOL proxy users are blocked by default- this is not something I can live with... I found out how to unblock them in the ZBBlock forums though.

It ran well for an hour blocking about 20 requests but when I looked at the log I wasn't happy... For some reason a number of Amazon.com product URL's were being blocked and since I have an affiliate program this didn't look good...

Also bad it was blocking some pages that referred to me because of "spam" words in the referral link... in my case the word was "boob" because the referring page title was something along the lines of "Sarah Palin Boob Job?" - so I lost that visitor, he (or she) was blocked by this.

Finally, and what caused me to remove it for now, using this totally kills Tapatalk access to your forum...

I read a lot about what this author did and it is commendable he worked hard on this but personally I think his default settings are MUCH too strict for prime time use. I'm sure with enough customizing these issues can be overcome but it will be a while before I dedicate time to researching this.

If you're not losing the spam war I suggest you be very wary of installing this, it looks like you will lose legit visitors under the default settings.

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I decided to try again but instead of putting it on config.php or global.php which would block Tapatalk I'm using it on register.php, login.php, and a few other select pages. This should still stop bots from registering or logging in but allow the rest of the forum to function. I know this doesn't give me all the security as running it on every script but it seems like a decent compromise for now.