Anti-Spam Options - Spambot Stopper - Prevent Spambots from Registering

What is it?
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This mod rejects registrations where the form is filled out in less than a minimum time. You can configure one of the following actions to be taken when an automated registration is detected:

- Show a "No Permissions" page
- Display the "Successful Registration" message but without creating an account
- Redirect the user to any URL you choose
- Reload the registration page with an error message of your choosing

You can also provide a list of email addresses to be notified each time a registration is blocked.

Added for version 1.1.1: Time delay enforcer, maximum time option, time limits to cut down on email notifications, posting to a thread.

In the future, I'd like to add some simple logging and statistics, and a summary type of email notification (because people seem to quickly get tired of the single emails).

Note: I coded this myself from scratch, but I would like to acknowledge a couple of previous mods that used this same idea, by users Calorie and noppid, and maybe others. In any case, I believe this one adds some features that the others don't have.

Other advantages: no ads or links, no abuse of update notifications, no disappearing features, no threats to delete the mod (it will never be deleted, at least by me). Also, translations are allowed.

Installation:
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1) If you have "Is Bot", "Stop the Registration Bots", "Spammers Suck!", or another mod that works on registration time, note any admincp settings for that mod then uninstall it.

2) Import the product XML file from the Product Manager.

3) Go to Settings > Options > Spambot Stopper Options and configure the desired settings.

4) IMPORTANT: try to register a new user to make sure that there are no problems with humans registering. If you want, you can also temporarily set the minimum time to a higher value (like 60 seconds) and test to see if the spammer rejection is working.



History:
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1.1.1 (Feb 16, 2013)

• Added timer for enforcing minimum time
• Added maximum registration time limit
• Added time limits for email notifications
• Added posting notificatiosn to a thread

1.0.1 (Feb 01, 2013)

• Fixed bug
• Added check for fake timestamps

1.0 (Jan 31, 2013)

• Initial Release

[kh99]

Originally Posted by markoroots

Hi guys,
i have just installed this mod yesterday and look what I found in one thread today:
http://www.eliquid-forum.com/threads...-the-why/page3

look also the next pages...
What is this???????

That looks like threadid 1. I guess you have "Enable posting a notice to a thread..." set to Yes, and "Specify the id of an existing thread to which notifications will be posted" to 1. So you must either specify a different threadid for those posts, or else set "Enable posting a notice to a thread..." to No.

[markoroots]

Hi kh99 and tanks for your quickly reply.

The thing is this:
If i set "Enable posting a notice to a thread..." to No
the mod doesn't stop to send post in the id1 thread

In the 4.2.1 vb look that this option work (cause i have 2 forum)
but in the 4.2.2 the post are still sent in the post id1 also if the "notification post" option is disabled.

[kh99]

Originally Posted by markoroots

Hi kh99 and tanks for your quickly reply.

The thing is this:
If i set "Enable posting a notice to a thread..." to No
the mod doesn't stop to send post in the id1 thread

In the 4.2.1 vb look that this option work (cause i have 2 forum)
but in the 4.2.2 the post are still sent in the post id1 also if the "notification post" option is disabled.

Hmm...I may have made a mistake in the way I'm checking that option. But try setting the threadid to 0 and see if that stops it.

[Chadi]

Originally Posted by kh99

OK, well I'm glad you responded before I added that option. But now I'm at a loss. I guess I could try to add some logging so I can actually help people who have problems instead of telling them "I don't know".

I was just curious if you found anything yet on this? Thanks in advance.

[kh99]

Originally Posted by Chadi

I was just curious if you found anything yet on this? Thanks in advance.

I haven't, sorry. What I meant by my last post is that unless I find time to add logging, I probably can't help. IIRC the mod actually has some messages in it but they just aren't written out anywhere, so maybe I can put them in a db table or something (or use the vb log, as I think someone else suggested a while back).

[Kills]

just installed it done got one...nice add on... Thanks

edit: I do like the redirect thing...lol

[ozzy47]

It will get alot more than that, this is a pretty cool mod.

[ozzy47]

Hey Kevin, question. I am trying to get this to write to the DB, when there is a timer trigger, but it don't seem to work, here is what I tried.

Hook Location, register_start
Execution Order, tried 5 and 15

Code:

PHP Code:

function kh99_sbs_post2(&$data, $event)
{
   global $vbulletin;

   if ($data['reject'])
   {
        $dateline = TIMENOW;
        $vbulletin->db->hide_errors();

        $vbulletin->db->query_write("
            INSERT INTO `". TABLE_PREFIX ."bad_bots1`
            (
                dateline, 
                bots1, 
                agent,
                userip
            )
            VALUES 
            (
                ".$dateline.", 
                '2', 
                '1',
                '1'
            )
        ");   
   }
} 


But I believe it is not doing so, and it seems to stop the post from being added also.

[kh99]

Originally Posted by ozzy47

Hey Kevin, question. I am trying to get this to write to the DB, when there is a timer trigger, but it don't seem to work, here is what I tried....

I don't see anything wrong with that code. I'd have to have time to re-familiarize myself with how the mod works to be able to help more.

[ozzy47]

Not in a big hurry, I am taking the counts I need from the reply count in the thread for the time being.