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.

[Foxtrotelite]

I just got my key and turned this mod on.. Within 10 minutes it blocked 5 spammers from China.

This mod along with SpammersSuck1.0 knocks out a TON of spam.

Thanks for making this

[Moshe1010]

2 Questions:
1. Would it work with 4.1.11?
2. Would it block spammer IPs on the PHP level? meaning not letting them to enter my website at all, not just registration (like blocking IPs through htaccess)

Thanks.

[koneil]

Originally Posted by Moshe1010

2 Questions:
1. Would it work with 4.1.11?
2. Would it block spammer IPs on the PHP level? meaning not letting them to enter my website at all, not just registration (like blocking IPs through htaccess)

Thanks.

1. Yes, it should work fine.
2. No, it wasn't designed to do that. It would be more efficient to block IP's at your firewall, ie. iptables, pf. or in your htaccess file.

[TheSupportForum]

@koneil

please be aware that it takes someones months before the developer will PM you the key, i waited 4 months

and btw i know your not the developer, you should really put details on who to contact to get the antispam key

as you will be contacted by members here who you can't support in that way

[koneil]

Originally Posted by TheSupportForum

@koneil

please be aware that it takes someones months before the developer will PM you the key, i waited 4 months

and btw i know your not the developer, you should really put details on who to contact to get the antispam key

as you will be contacted by members here who you can't support in that way

First of all, I'm sorry it took so long to receive your key, I'm really not sure why it took that long. Second, I am the developer and for you to jump into a thread and accuse me of not being the developer is rude and not called for, so you might want to get all your facts straight before accusing someone of something thats not true.

If someone needs to contact me they can write me at my email address kevin @ fassim.com. I stand by our product and support it 100% and there are a lot of people that would back me up on that.

If someone wants key they will need to request it from our website http://www.fassim.com/get-api-key/

[TheSupportForum]

Originally Posted by koneil

First of all, I'm sorry it took so long to receive your key, I'm really not sure why it took that long. Second, I am the developer and for you to jump into a thread and accuse me of not being the developer is rude and not called for, so you might want to get all your facts straight before accusing someone of something thats not true.

If someone needs to contact me they can write me at my email address kevin @ fassim.com. I stand by our product and support it 100% and there are a lot of people that would back me up on that.

If someone wants key they will need to request it from our website http://www.fassim.com/get-api-key/

ok thx for the info, this product is in beta, so im wondering why it took so long for it to be uploaded to vbulletin tbh

when will then product be out of beta stage ?

[koneil]

Originally Posted by TheSupportForum

ok thx for the info, this product is in beta, so im wondering why it took so long for it to be uploaded to vbulletin tbh

when will then product be out of beta stage ?

We've had our plugin on vb org for a while under the old vb3.8 plugin (https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=254793), I just hadn't uploaded it for the new vb4. I got chemical lung burn and got really sick, could do anything for a long time. That slowed down the development of Fassim, but now that I'm heathy, development is our main priority.

As for the beta on the logo, it needs to be removed. We haven't been in beta for a while now.

Thanks!

[Heckwork]

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.

Would it be possible to include my webmaster email address for the supposed spammer?

[koneil]

Originally Posted by Heckwork

Would it be possible to include my webmaster email address for the supposed spammer?

I could add an additional field to allow people to append a line to the error message.

[Heckwork]

Originally Posted by koneil

I could add an additional field to allow people to append a line to the error message.

Great!

In the meantime, just an hour after installing and removing my own blocklist, I see quite a few registration attempts not getting through. So far so good...