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.

[Pottsy]

A quick question - does the email come for registration attempts that may have been otherwise (captcha) unsuccessful?

[AnaB]

sounds like a great mod. I'm installing it. Getting sick of spam registrations here.

[quiklink]

It works great! Blocked 72 of em in the past 5 days since I installed it. Most of them from Russia.

[Paul M]

Originally Posted by Pottsy

A quick question - does the email come for registration attempts that may have been otherwise (captcha) unsuccessful?

Yes.

[v12kid]

installed, will monitor to see what it catches

[Torqued]

Excellent mod. I caught 10 spambots in the 1st 24 hours this mod was running.

I'd like to add another vote for including the IP address in the email - it would be nice to know if I'm getting spambots repeatedly from an ip address or ip range.

[Torqued]

Originally Posted by Torqued

Excellent mod. I caught 10 spambots in the 1st 24 hours this mod was running.

I'd like to add another vote for including the IP address in the email - it would be nice to know if I'm getting spambots repeatedly from an ip address or ip range.

Bumping to see if the author or anyone else could add IP address to the email?

I tried adding it, but I apparently didn't do it right.

I'm getting about 10-15 spambots/day and I suspect many of them are coming from the same ip addresses/ranges. It would be nice to be able to identify and block those IPs.

[WreckRman2]

Originally Posted by Torqued

Bumping to see if the author or anyone else could add IP address to the email?

I tried adding it, but I apparently didn't do it right.

I'm getting about 10-15 spambots/day and I suspect many of them are coming from the same ip addresses/ranges. It would be nice to be able to identify and block those IPs.

This is exactly what I was hoping to see added... then we can block that IP. It would be great if that the system automatically added the IP to the blocked list. Is this possible?

[webgod]

To include the IP in the email.

Go to the Plugin Manager in your AdminCP
Click edit for "register_addmember_process" under Is Bot product

Find:

PHP Code:

$isbot_email = htmlspecialchars_uni($vbulletin->GPC['email']); 


Below it add:

PHP Code:

$isbot_ipaddy = IPADDRESS; 


next find:

PHP Code:

. ' (' . $isbot_timediff . ' ' . $vbphrase['isbot_seconds_transpired'] . ')'; 


REPLACE it with:

PHP Code:

. '  (' . $isbot_timediff . ' ' . $vbphrase['isbot_seconds_transpired'] . ')'
. '  The IP Address is: ' . $isbot_ipaddy ; 


[Torqued]

webgod:

Thanks, I'll give this a shot.. I just had a bot try to register 8 times w/ the same email address.