Anti-Spam Options - vbStopForumSpam

vbStopForumSpam

Mod of the month winner October 2009.... That cant be bad :up:

Apologies in advance, this is a copy of the 3.6/3.7/3.8 mod that has been verified to work in 4.0 (its so that I dont get a billion PMs asking if it works in 4.0)

This provides access to a RBL type system for forum admins, listing known spam IP / email / usernames. The RBL database is provided by www.stopforumspam.com. You do NOT need an API key from the website in order to access the database. only to submit data if you should wish to do so.

At the point of user registration, the mod checks if the IP number / provided username / email addresses appear on a block list and can block the registration.

Whilst this isnt the most perfect way to stop all forum spam, its another step that spammers have to overcome.

What it does

It checks with a remote database of known forum spammers. Their IP number, email address and forum username are tested and based on your configuration, you can reject / log / accept user registrations based on what you get back.

This version doesnt have
- whitelisting or the ability to submit users to the database but it will within the next week.
- automatic user deletion / post / PM purging. There are good tools out there already, this does something else.

Instructions are included in the installation.txt file - PLEASE read it first and dont forget to actually upload the files in the upload folder, otherwise it WILL kill your registration progress and you wont see the log file options in admincp.

Changes to vB
- 3 new database tables
- 2 database table alternations
- No new templates.
- 2 Hook (register_addmember_process & register_addmember_complete)

Ive tested it but had feedback that it works with versions as old as 3.6.2... Support should go back to older versions, as long as they have hook support for register_addmember_process / register_addmember_complete

For code to submit spammers to the database, check this post for code changes
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showpost....&postcount=288

Reported to work
- 3.6.1, 3.6.2, 3.6.9, 3.6.10, 3.7.0, 3.7.1, 3.7.2, 3.7.3, 3.74, 3.80, 3.81, 3.82, 3.83, 3.8.4, 4.0beta3, 4.0 Gold, 4.2pl1,2

Installers should remember to refresh their ACP navigation window when they first install it so they can see the new log file menu item.

REQUIRES MySQL 4.1.1+

There is a small mod, coded by Wired1 that will allow you to submit spammer details to the database from the admin control panel, here https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showpost....&postcount=289 This relies 100% on javascript being enabled and makes no tests that it is enabled.

You need to have an API key from www.stopforumspam.com in order to submit data, its free and easy to get... You DONT need an API key in order to use this mod however, only to submit spammer data.

Issues are
- The usergroup permissions / view details etc DONT work. I jumped the gun and put the permissions controls in there before I put the code in. Please delete the includes/xml/bitfield_vbstopforumspam.xml file and rebuild your postbit

Installation
- Follow the instructions in the zip file, that includes the file upload the correct folders.

Please click Installed

The original thread is at https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=176481 where there is a wealth of knowledge about the mod, please ask questions in there.

[MHC]

Originally Posted by Stefan118

Ehhh, WHERE do i find te remove entries option?
Added an image of what I see.

Edit:
Ok i found it.
Had to log in with the admin account instead of my own account.

Sorry I just can't see where I can prune log entries (and do I ever have a lot of them!) and I am in the Admin account. I'm in the vbStopForumSpam Logs (vbStopForumSpam Log Viewer).

I can sort the entries by username, email addies. When I ask to sort them by IPs, I see a Invalid SQL error message but the server is kept under wraps by the owner and I don't want to go there.

Besides, there must be an easier way of pruning these entries? Maybe I missed some button in the interface, a link or something?

[Delphiprogrammi]

Originally Posted by MHC

Sorry I just can't see where I can prune log entries (and do I ever have a lot of them!) and I am in the Admin account. I'm in the vbStopForumSpam Logs (vbStopForumSpam Log Viewer).

I can sort the entries by username, email addies. When I ask to sort them by IPs, I see a Invalid SQL error message but the server is kept under wraps by the owner and I don't want to go there.

Besides, there must be an easier way of pruning these entries? Maybe I missed some button in the interface, a link or something?

that is a bug see this for a fix https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showpost....&postcount=234

[MHC]

Originally Posted by Delphiprogrammi

that is a bug see this for a fix https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showpost....&postcount=234

Thank you, thank you, thank you! :up: :up:

[AndrewRich]

Installed on newly-upgraded to 4.1 mousepad.mouseplanet.com. Unfortunately the "submit spammer to database" code is broken in 4.1; just shows some PHP errors in the AdminCP user page instead of showing the custom fields.

[steven s]

Originally Posted by sticheno

Also looking for this. Have spent over an hour reading forum posts trying to find a valid link to something that shows how. Frustrating. The software works brilliantly so having this last bit of information somehow hidden is sad.

My last update wrote over this code. I surely do miss it.

[zushiba]

This mod is flagging internal network IP's as spam IPs. Is there any way to configure this to ignore certain IP's or the entire 192.168.0.0/16 range of IPs?

[Carlos X]

4.1.3 user here, wanting this update.

[djbaxter]

Originally Posted by Carlos X

4.1.3 user here, wanting this update.

It already works with 4.13

[blacksurfer]

It's flaggin Facebook connect users as spam. Please advise.

[GlowHost.com]

Originally Posted by blacksurfer

It's flaggin Facebook connect users as spam. Please advise.

Try this one which works with Facebook:
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=248042