Anti-Spam Options - Fassim Anit Spam - (Block Countries, Proxies, SpamBots, Disposable Email Addresses)

PLEASE COPY YOUR API KEY BEFORE UPDATING VERSIONS

****** Please mark installed if you're using it. ******

• Blocks spammers via IP / Email.
• Allow or Block countries and Regions (i.e States: Arizona, New York) from registering to your forum.
• Block anonymous proxies.
• Block Top Spamming Domains.
• Block Top Spamming ISP?s.
• Block Disposable Email Addresses
• Scan posts and allow you to moderate the posts
• DNSBL checks

If the new registering member is determined to be a bot or spammer, they will receive a message telling them they are not allowed to register.

It will also scan posts and determine if the post is spam or not. You have 4 options if the post is determined to be spam.

**Note: Post scans will only work with English.
Nothing.
Moderate Post
Soft Delete
Physically Delete

To install: import product-fassim_1.3.xml into your vBulletin Products section. After its installed goto vBulletin Option -> Fassim Anti Spam Options, insert your API key that you will need to get from our website (www.fassim.com).

Also, follow us on Twitter (https://twitter.com/forumspam) for the latest ipTables and Apache block lists, so you can block spammers at the server level.. why let them waste resources?!

This will work on all versions of vb4. Will work in conjunction with other spam filters, this will just give you more options to kill SPAM.

[koneil]

I'm looking into it. What version of shoutbox do you have?

[doctorsexy]

DragonByte Tech: vBShout (Pro) 6.1.0

[koneil]

Originally Posted by doctorsexy

DragonByte Tech: vBShout (Pro) 6.1.0

It looks like we are both using the newpost_complete. Looks like it was the executionorder, I set mine to a lower number and re-uploaded the XML file.

[doctorsexy]

That did the trick..thanks

[doctorsexy]

Originally Posted by ForceHSS

how do i check or know if it is blocking a country

i would like to know this aswell ..please

[BoxerPrimer]

Been using it for a week now. Happy to report that spam registrations have dropped from about 250 everyday to about 10 a day !

Would love to have a country safe list in the next version like the country block list option. I.e I should be able to add my country to the safe list, anyone registering from my country should not be flagged as spam.

Good support as well. Overall 5 Stars.

[koneil]

When updating version, uninstall and then reinstall.

PLEASE COPY YOUR API KEY BEFORE UPDATING

v1.3 - Added section to Allow or Block countries. Last version only blocked countries.

[BoxerPrimer]

Thanks. Allow / Block countries is working a little weird though. There should be two lists Allow & Block not Allow OR Block.

If for example I choose to allow the US then all other countries will be blocked or I can't block indivual ones. Example if I choose Block UK then all other countries except UK will be able to register but if I choose to Allow UK then all other countries except UK will be blocked !

What do I do when I want to allow US and UK but block China ?? This is currently not possible.

An ideal way would be to have two lists, one for Block and the other for Allow. This would let me allow the countries that I want on my safe list and block spamming destinations like China or Ukraine. Nothing from the country on the Allow list should be blocked.

Btw the support from the developers is quite good. I get email updates of spam attacks with IP, countries and spammers email info.

[koneil]

Originally Posted by BoxerPrimer

Thanks. Allow / Block countries is working a little weird though. There should be two lists Allow & Block not Allow OR Block.

If for example I choose to allow the US then all other countries will be blocked or I can't block indivual ones. Example if I choose Block UK then all other countries except UK will be able to register but if I choose to Allow UK then all other countries except UK will be blocked !

What do I do when I want to allow US and UK but block China ?? This is currently not possible.

An ideal way would be to have two lists, one for Block and the other for Allow. This would let me allow the countries that I want on my safe list and block spamming destinations like China or Ukraine. Nothing from the country on the Allow list should be blocked.

Btw the support from the developers is quite good. I get email updates of spam attacks with IP, countries and spammers email info.

Originally Posted by BoxerPrimer

What do I do when I want to allow US and UK but block China ?? This is currently not possible.

In this scenario it sounds like those are the only two countries you would like to allow, so you would set the countries to ALLOW and put US,UK in the allow country list. All the other countries will be blocked.

The idea is to narrow down what countries you want to Allow or Block. If you just want to block countries from your site then set it to Block and enter the list of countries you don't want to register. Example.. I don't want China, Ukraine and Poland to register to my site, so I set it to BLOCK and enter the country code of those countries. If just want to allow countries I would set it to ALLOW enter just the countries I want to register, US,UK,JP

It actually works the way you want it to, you want to allow US and UK but block China and Ukraine. Two ways of doing this, you can either ALLOW the two countries you want or block the countries you don't want. Its easier to ALLOW if you already know the countries you want. So set it to ALLOW and put US,UK in the country list. If you want to BLOCK, set it to BLOCK and put CN,UA in the country list. This will do exactly what you want it to do.

Great news, we're working on some new things that I hope it helps forum owners get an idea on what happening to their forum.

[Nirjonadda]

where i can check Log Viewer? Is Their any option ?