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vbStopForumSpam - known spammer lookup for new registrations
Version: 0.61, by pedigree pedigree is offline
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Category: Administrative and Maintenance Tools - Version: 3.6.1 Rating:
Released: 04-17-2008 Last Update: 01-26-2010 Installs: 1986
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vbStopForumSpam

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.

VB4 here https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthrea...hreadid=230921
Its the same code, it works in 3.54 to 4.0


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. You do not need to download the product-vbstopforumspam-3.54.xml file unless you are using a vBulletin version older than 3.6.0

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

Known to work - tested by me
- vBulletin 3.6.8 on Apache 2.2 / PHP 5.1.2 on Linux using cUrl
- vBulletin 3.7 Gold on Apache 2.0 / PHP 4.4.3 on Windows without cUrl (template changes wont work on 3.7 - thats in the next version with auto template changes)

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

Reported in the thread 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


If you have 3.54, then you can use the product-vbstopforumspam-3.54.xml file attached instead of the one in the ZIP file, which will allow older vBulletin versions to access this mods' features. I personally havent tested this version, its a user contribution, thanks to Darrell Mobley, that changes the way the XML works when imported into older versions.

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+

Future versions
- Automatic integration into vBulletin to add users to the stopForumSpam.com database from a form
- Whitelisting of username / IP / email addresses
- AJAX integration to allow for lookups from within the users profile
- Decreased remote query count from three per user to one per user.

Versions / Changes

0.1 Initial Release

0.2 pedigrees special brew birthday release.
- Small security update. If you have 0.1 installed, download 0.2 and replace your existing functions_vbsfs.php with the one in the archive. It just tests to see if its running inside the VB framework before anything else. This is what happens when you code at 2am after drinking wine

0.3
- stopped it processing valid registrations twice
- moved all non-function code into the plugin. Not a big one as 0.2 basically did that
- fixed a typo in the log pruner that stopped it working (404)
- removed unused fields from the database for people with mysql that doesnt support varchar > 255 (ie mySQL4). If you have 0.2 installed and dont need to prune your logs just yet, you dont really need to install this version but can instead wait for 1.0 unless of a massive security update.

0.4
- logs registrations that arent/wouldnt be blocked
- fixed XML errors when username has a space it in
- tightened up the cache so that it doesnt test a username against an email name to give a bypass result (for when a username is an email address that isnt banned where the email address is)
- fixed some basic logic errors in the PHP

0.6
- Should work on PHP 4.4 now - rewrote the XML with PHP4 in mind (tested on Apache2.0/PHP 4.4.3)
- Fixed a caching system where data wasnt being updated correctly which could cause a remote query when one wasnt needed
- Possible false negative situation when a spammer was blocked due to SFS.com being down who then visited again when it was up but within the cache expiry time
- Remote query failure when the result page isnt XML should work a bit better now. It does a very basic test for valid XML results.
- Fixed log purging (again) and it should actually work properly now.
- No longer requires PHP5
- The log viewer now links to a user profile when registration is allowed.

v0.61 - Removed a template change that was invalid vBulletin code. The package you download will still say its 0.60 however

NB : When upgrading from any version to 0.6, you must remove and then add the plugin due to changes in one of the database tables

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 upload the correct folders
- ONLY download the 3.54 xml file if youre using a vbulletin version prior to 3.6.0. use this file to install the mod instead of the xml file in the zip file.

Please click Installed

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Old 11-16-2009, 07:17 PM
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Great! I wonder if any of the other well-thought-out hacks will work as well.
Looking at the template code, anything that changes a template, either manually or automatically, will not work in vb4
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Old 11-18-2009, 05:34 PM
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This Mod works great.

How ever I am seeing a slight issue in my logs. Since installing yesterday it shows 39 entries and says 4 of them were approved, when I search for these users they do not exists. The log entries also are not associated with a user ID.

I ran a test and registered on my own and it worked fine.

When I looked at the approved accounts a couple of them were .ru email addresses so obviously they were spammers. But when I went to stopforumspam.com I couldn't find any reference to them.

I don't think the blocked accounts were legit by any means, but they said they were allowed. Would indicate to me there is a bug in the process some where.

I am running 3.8.3
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Old 11-18-2009, 11:18 PM
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I installed it and it works like a charm, Thank you
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This Mod works great.

How ever I am seeing a slight issue in my logs. Since installing yesterday it shows 39 entries and says 4 of them were approved, when I search for these users they do not exists. The log entries also are not associated with a user ID.

I ran a test and registered on my own and it worked fine.

When I looked at the approved accounts a couple of them were .ru email addresses so obviously they were spammers. But when I went to stopforumspam.com I couldn't find any reference to them.

I don't think the blocked accounts were legit by any means, but they said they were allowed. Would indicate to me there is a bug in the process some where.

I am running 3.8.3
This has been covered but as the thread is getting long, its not a problem

What happens with "approved" is really a miswording (to quote Hillary Clinton). "Approved" means that its passed all the tests done by this mod, not by vbulletin. It means that this mod hasnt found a match on any of the fields that you are testing on and has passed control back to vbulletin for all its tests (dup email, banned ip, password length, catcpha testing etc). The registrations wouldve been stopped by one of the vbulletin tests as my mods processing takes place first because of the place in the scripts that its executed at.

Hope thats clear

If you find, in your logs, a spammer thats banned on username/ip address but you dont find an email address for them on the website, please feel free to add them to the databases (details on how to on stopforumspam.com)
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I installed it and it works like a charm, Thank you
Youre welcome
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...When I looked at the approved accounts a couple of them were .ru email addresses so obviously they were spammers. But when I went to stopforumspam.com I couldn't find any reference to them.

I don't think the blocked accounts were legit by any means, but they said they were allowed. Would indicate to me there is a bug in the process some where.

I am running 3.8.3
The fact that there was no reference to them at StopForumSpam.com is the reason that they passed inspection by this plug-in. Those would be the spammers that you want to make sure you add to the SFS list.
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Old 11-19-2009, 09:25 AM
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This has been covered but as the thread is getting long, its not a problem

What happens with "approved" is really a miswording (to quote Hillary Clinton). "Approved" means that its passed all the tests done by this mod, not by vbulletin. It means that this mod hasnt found a match on any of the fields that you are testing on and has passed control back to vbulletin for all its tests (dup email, banned ip, password length, catcpha testing etc). The registrations wouldve been stopped by one of the vbulletin tests as my mods processing takes place first because of the place in the scripts that its executed at.

Hope thats clear

If you find, in your logs, a spammer thats banned on username/ip address but you dont find an email address for them on the website, please feel free to add them to the databases (details on how to on stopforumspam.com)
You could replace it in the next release with a more neutral wording like "no match found". Prevents questions I suppose

Belated congrats on the MotM award by the way!
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Barteh - its already been changed to exactly that, "no match found"

And thanks, it was a great feeling to get listed on teh motd, let alone win it.
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thanks, works great; already caught a potential spammer 1 min after install
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This Mod works great.

How ever I am seeing a slight issue in my logs. Since installing yesterday it shows 39 entries and says 4 of them were approved, when I search for these users they do not exists. The log entries also are not associated with a user ID.

I ran a test and registered on my own and it worked fine.

When I looked at the approved accounts a couple of them were .ru email addresses so obviously they were spammers. But when I went to stopforumspam.com I couldn't find any reference to them.

I don't think the blocked accounts were legit by any means, but they said they were allowed. Would indicate to me there is a bug in the process some where.

I am running 3.8.3
The first question is are you moderating new members? I would advise you to if you aren't. If you are, when they see that it requires a second step to register, they realize that you are moderating new members and do not finish the registration process for fear of being discovered. They got that far because they were NOT in the SFS database. I've said it before and I'll say it again; All spammers are not in the database so you need to investigate them if they (new registrants) look suspicious. They aquire new e-mails and IPs all of the time. SFS does not have EVERY spammer listed which is why they count on us to report them. It also pays to check against other anti-spam sites too as a back up to SFS. There are several.
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