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Enhanced Captcha Image Verification - stop bots from signing up!!
Version: 1.11, by steadicamop steadicamop is offline
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Category: Miscellaneous Hacks - Version: 3.6.8 Rating:
Released: 11-25-2006 Last Update: 11-26-2006 Installs: 874
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Title : Enhanced Captcha Image Verification

Version : 1.1

Coder : Andy Calderbank & Jason Williams

Purpose
: Add extra Image Verification to the registration process, using an alternative system to the Captcha system.

Why : It would appear that spammers can now "read" the Captcha codes and overcome the verification process.

How : This extra feature uses images which are harder for a spam program/bot to interpret than text characters. The user has a choice of 4 randomly displayed images, and the answer is given below. The user must click on that image to proceed, if the incorrect image is selected an error message is shown. The images are randomly shown (from however many are in the directory - you can have as many as you want, just has to be more that 4!) and are automatically created from the images/verification/ directory - all on the fly. Sample images are included with this release, but you can use your own - I recommend using 100 x 100 pixels, in .jpg format and naming the image with a meaningful title (ie A House.jpg) - the extension is stripped so only the filename itself is shown.

To further enhance security, the images are passed through a script which means that none of the images on the screen have file names - and cannot be associated to the question by title alone.

I have been testing this on my forum and have found it to be effective - I cannot guarantee that this will stop all spamming, but this relies more on human input than a computer "reading" the image.

Important : This has been tested on 3.6.2 - I cannot guarantee it will work on anything above, please test with caution - and as always BACKUP FIRST! This will not work on anything below 3.6.0.

Demo : http://www.steadiforum.com/register.php

I hope this is help to the VBulletin community as I know this is a growing problem. I don't fancy the thought of trawling through hundreds of new members deleting stupid usernames and spam posts.

Installation :
  1. Upload the verification/ directory to your images/ folder - make sure .htaccess and show.php are present - otherwise it won't work.
  2. Import Product - product-image_verification.xml

Upgrading :
  1. Upload show.php to the images/verification/ directory.
  2. Import Product - product-image_verification.xml - select Allow Overwrite to enable upgrade.

Requirements : GD Libraries installed

File uploads : 39 (including images)
Files to Import : 1
New Templates : 1
New Phrases : 5
Uses Hooks : 1
New Queries : 0

History :
v1.0 - Original release
v1.01 - Slight code change for forums in sub-directories (thanks go to Barakat for solving this one)
v1.1 - Issue resolved with Windows servers also template clean up for xhtml compliance
v1.11 - Added version check function, minor upgrade.

Done - if you like please click install! (and I won't ask for any donations as long as you click Nominate for MOTM!)

Don't forget you don't have to use the provided images - you can customise these to any you wish - I've used ones that are hopefully universal and everyone will recognise.

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File Type: zip Enhanced Captcha Image Verification.zip (116.4 KB, 5787 views)

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File Type: jpg imageverification1.jpg (36.6 KB, 0 views)
File Type: jpg imageverification2.jpg (24.5 KB, 0 views)

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  #352  
Old 03-09-2010, 03:06 AM
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I have tried this in 4.0.X and it doesnt work.. May I request to have this made for 4.0.X ?? thankyou
Yes! Please release for 4.0

I just removed hundreds of spam bot users and around 100,000 spam posts!
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Old 03-11-2010, 04:49 PM
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I checked the demo, and I think this won't be very effective for non-bot spammers. Captchas rarely get processed by bots nowadays, and more often by people that think they're playing some kinda game half a world away. 'Course, I might be wrong, so I'll give it a try nevertheless.
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Downloaded ! It's work with vbseo ?
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thanks , works
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Nice one, downloaded working fine.

Thanx.
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just one question

how do i translate it ?
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i'm getting killed with bots. hope this helps
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Old 03-19-2010, 01:58 AM
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tried this on 3.8.5

so far so good
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Works perfectly on 3.8.4 and 3.8.5 right out of the box :up:
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I had an issue of pictures not showing up and when I hit view image, I got this:

Code:
Warning: imagecreatefromjpeg() [function.imagecreatefromjpeg]: gd-jpeg: JPEG library reports unrecoverable error: in [path]/show.php on line 22

Warning: imagecreatefromjpeg() [function.imagecreatefromjpeg]: 'images2/verification/' is not a valid JPEG file in [path]/show.php on line 22

Warning: imagecreatetruecolor() [function.imagecreatetruecolor]: Invalid image dimensions in [path]/show.php on line 27

Warning: imagecopyresized(): supplied argument is not a valid Image resource in [path]/show.php on line 28

Warning: Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at [path]/includes/class_core.php:3277) in [path]/show.php on line 30

Warning: imagegif(): supplied argument is not a valid Image resource in [path]/show.php on line 31

Warning: imagedestroy(): supplied argument is not a valid Image resource in [path]/show.php on line 32
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