Anti-Spam Options - 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.

[websissy]

Originally Posted by Pro-eSports.com

Does this mod work with vB4? If not then can the author please update this mod. It is really useful for everyone.

In my readings here I see no sign that it has been updated for version 4 yet. But I haven't noticed too many v4 users calling for it yet either. That may be because many of us are still biding our time and sitting around waiting for most of the roaches, headlice and fleas to get chased out of v4 before we give it to our members.

Be patient. Sooner or later many of these addons are likely to get migrated up to version 4.

[Idawg]

Originally Posted by websissy

Comment: Although the Addon seemed to work fine, I uninstalled it because the StopTheRegistrationBots Add-on does the same thing this does plus much more. I also plan on installing the Advanced Registration AddOn as well to help keep out the bots and get new user registrations out of moderation mode.

Only problem with that is there is a new wave of registration emails and ip's (new proxies??) that the bots/spammers are using now and they blow right through the Stoptheregistrationbots mod.. It uses stopforumspam.com database, and I dont think they have the people using it as much either

As for vb4, I am going to install this and try to register a test account and see if it errors out or not.. I have 2 vb4 forums that I would LOVE to use this on..

Also, can SOMEONE please update this to 4 so we can install it on production forums??

[websissy]

Originally Posted by Idawg

Only problem with that is there is a new wave of registration emails and ip's (new proxies??) that the bots/spammers are using now and they blow right through the Stoptheregistrationbots mod.. It uses stopforumspam.com database, and I dont think they have the people using it as much either

As for vb4, I am going to install this and try to register a test account and see if it errors out or not.. I have 2 vb4 forums that I would LOVE to use this on..

Also, can SOMEONE please update this to 4 so we can install it on production forums??

You know, IDawg, I think you're confused here about what StopTheRegistrationBots does. AFAIK, I does not in fact use the vbStopForumSpam database at all. As I understand it, as its first line of defense StopTheRegistrationBots is basically designed to do what IsBot does and measure the amount of time it takes a "registering user" to complete one registration form and move to the next one. If that time is too short StopTheRegistrationBots instantly blocks the 'user' from registering because he's "too fast to be human". But in addtion to those capabilities, it is also designed to include and require entry of a hidden form field that the normal vbulletin registration form does NOT include and if that field is NOT provided, then it concludes the registration attempt is being made by a bot that's sending it data based on the normal vb registration form and not the one StopTheRegistrationBots is designed to use and blocks it. In addition, it includes features that allow the Site Admin to quickly change the name of that hidden field on the form so that the information the register.php program expects to receive from the form can quickly be changed to a new field with a different name to help the site admin detect and block bots.

From what I've read, none of these features have anything whatsoeever to do with the vbStopForumSpam database. So I basically think you're confused here.

Also, for the record, I haven't yet installed vb4. But from what I know about these tools, I can't see any reason why this patch wouldn't be easy to move over to vb4. Then again, perhaps I've missed something.

I hope this clarification helps.

[tamiyausa]

Installed on v4 and I was able to register a test account fine, so it seems to work so far.

[RonJH]

Could someone with a bit of VB coding knowledge please tell me how I would edit this line of code to ensure the emails go to matt@pesgaming.com.

vbmail($vbulletin->options['webmasteremail'], $isbot_subject, $isbot_message, true);

This does not seem to work:

vbmail($vbulletin->options['matt@pesgaming.com'], $isbot_subject, $isbot_message, true);

[Boofo]

Try:

vbmail('yourname@yoursite.com', $isbot_subject, $isbot_message, true);

Replacing yourname@yoursite.com with your own email address.

[Nickbe]

you might want to remove your email from here unless you want heaps of spam or enclose it in code tags atleast.

[Boofo]

Originally Posted by Nickbe

you might want to remove your email from here unless you want heaps of spam or enclose it in code tags atleast.

Oops, thanks for catching that. Post above fixed.

[Fred.]

I hope to see this mod for vBulletin 4.x in the future.

[Boofo]

It works fine on vb 4 now.