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.

[sv1cec]

Go to AdminCP/Styles & Templates/Default Style/Registration Templates/register

You edit that template.

[ETDC]

Thanks. Shows how long it's been since I edited something - I'd been searching for the php file via FTP!

Is everyone using the default 15 seconds?

Also, which plugin will take priority: Stop Forum Spam or Is Bot?

[max.]

Thanks for building this solution, we have installed seconds ago and we hope this is the end for the automated spammers because daily we got a lot from Russia and china.

It is nice that people build great modifications to vbulletin, they will have to hire you to fix other issues because you know how to fix things and they don't, or they don't want to.

[Max Taxable]

Originally Posted by max.

Thanks for building this solution, we have installed seconds ago and we hope this is the end for the automated spammers because daily we got a lot from Russia and china.

It is nice that people build great modifications to vbulletin, they will have to hire you to fix other issues because you know how to fix things and they don't, or they don't want to.

Solution has been updated with more features and adminCP controls.

https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=289464

[max.]

Thanks to your add-on I am getting over 700 spammers per day.

It is great to have an add-on to stop this.

[toneloc]

Where do I go to check the logs to see how many bots this mod has caught/stopped?

Thanks for the plugin!

[Lynne]

If you are using the default modification, then you should get an email everytime a bot if blocked.

[max.]

From 12 of December to Today your add-on has blocked 4163 spammers.

It is great to stop reviewing that huge amount of spammers.

Why vbulletin don't include this with the latest version?

[toneloc]

Originally Posted by Lynne

If you are using the default modification, then you should get an email everytime a bot if blocked.

I installed this plugin 24hrs ago, right after installing vbstopforumspam and enabled it. I can see on vbstopforumspams log that they blocked 367 users so far, but I haven't received a single email about Is bot blocking any spam.

Spam is being blocked, so I'm happy about that. I just don't know if Is Bot is working on my boards.

Any other way to check?

Thanks

[sv1cec]

Originally Posted by max.

Why vbulletin don't include this with the latest version?

Back in the days of vB 3.0.xx when I first dealt with vB, purchased my first license and started my first site, I spend quite some time to learn php and vB's coding scheme. Seeing the various things that could be improved in the code, and after years of work, I've ended up with a heavily patched version of vB, which included a mod I published in here, called AWS (for Advanced Warning System). That mod included a number of anti-spam traps, a time limit for the registration process (just like this mod), comparison between the country entered by the member vs the location indicated by his IP address, comparison of the time zone he entered with the time zone of the country indicated by his IP address etc.

So vB knows about these things, since version 3.0. Why they do not bother to include them in their software?

The obvious answer is, because they do not care.

Originally Posted by toneloc

I installed this plugin 24hrs ago, right after installing vbstopforumspam and enabled it. I can see on vbstopforumspams log that they blocked 367 users so far, but I haven't received a single email about Is bot blocking any spam.

Spam is being blocked, so I'm happy about that. I just don't know if Is Bot is working on my boards.

Any other way to check?

Thanks

I would suggest you check vbstopforumspams to see if it also does the same thing as Is Bot. If that plug-in stops the bots too, then Is Bot may never see a bot, so it doesn't email you. I think you can disable the first plug-in for a while, to check my theory.