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Is Bot: Registration Time Check · **Released**: 12-29-2006

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.

|Jordan| · #**272** 12-22-2008, 02:06 AM

This mod is great but i've been having some troublesome problems with it.

Bots are blocked from registering, but they keep trying to register non-stop (for several hours/days) and after awhile of this, my forum increases the server load (my previous web host already warned me about this).

It would be great if there was an option to automatically ban the user/bot after "x" amount of tries.

Clayton · #**273** 12-22-2008, 07:19 AM

well if you want to be thorough every time you get a warning that a bot attempted to register then take the email they attempted to register with

go to Banning options and put the email address there

other than that good luck

|Jordan| · #**274** 12-22-2008, 09:44 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Clayton

well if you want to be thorough every time you get a warning that a bot attempted to register then take the email they attempted to register with

go to Banning options and put the email address there

other than that good luck

The problem with that method is it requires user intervention. Something automatic would be easier to use.

paulvev · #**275** 12-23-2008, 07:24 PM

I have exactly the same problem. The increased traffic is creating pressure on the server and limiting the connections to the db. How do i stop unregistered bots "viewing"?

Toopac · #**276** 12-30-2008, 08:55 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by abdobasha2004

why prevent bots form registering?

Because they are useless spammers.

Great mod installed.

tlwwolfseye · #**277** 12-31-2008, 10:22 AM

Doesn´t Anti-bot Questions and reCaptcha does enough to prevent Bots from registering ?

Grimmwor · #**278** 12-31-2008, 02:20 PM

Thank you for making this!!! You've saved my forums!

Toopac · #**279** 01-01-2009, 11:03 PM

Update:

This mod has stopped roughly 2500 attempts in just a couple of days.

CoreyT · #**280** 01-03-2009, 12:27 AM

I ran this mod on our older version of VB.
We just upgraded to 3.7 the other day, and it quit working.

If I reinstall this, will it work OK with 3.7?

RS25com · #**281** 01-10-2009, 03:46 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by |Jordan|

This mod is great but i've been having some troublesome problems with it.

Bots are blocked from registering, but they keep trying to register non-stop (for several hours/days) and after awhile of this, my forum increases the server load (my previous web host already warned me about this).

It would be great if there was an option to automatically ban the user/bot after "x" amount of tries.

I would also like to see this solution. Adding their IP addresses to the ban list, or to .htaccess (better), would be ideal.

My forums were recently hammered with tens of thousands of requests such as:

Code:

121.230.23.25 - - [07/Jan/2009:08:16:20 -0500] "POST /forums/ajax.php?do=imagereg&imagehash=null HTTP/1.1" 200 145 "http://www.pipcop.com/forums/register.php?do=signup" "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; SV1; .NET CLR 2.0.50727)"
121.230.23.25 - - [07/Jan/2009:08:16:21 -0500] "POST /forums/ajax.php?do=imagereg&imagehash=null HTTP/1.1" 200 145 "http://www.pipcop.com/forums/register.php?do=signup" "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; SV1; .NET CLR 2.0.50727)"
121.230.23.25 - - [07/Jan/2009:08:16:21 -0500] "POST /forums/ajax.php?do=imagereg&imagehash=null HTTP/1.1" 200 145 "http://www.pipcop.com/forums/register.php?do=signup" "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; SV1; .NET CLR 2.0.50727)"

It seems like it would be trivial to block anyone who hits the ajax page more than 10 times in a minute... right?

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