Anti-Spam Options - reCAPTCHA v2 Human Verification

(Note: This mod was renamed. The original name was "New reCAPTCHA Human Verification")

What is it?
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This mod adds reCAPTCHA v2 as an option in the Human Verification Manager.

Note: The original reCAPTCHA used default keys if you didn't enter your own, so you could leave the key fields blank. This version requires you to have your own keys for your domain. To create them, go to this page (click on the "Get reCAPTCHA" button). It may take a short time after creating the keys before they will work, so if you get "ERROR: Invalid domain for site key", wait a while and try again.

vb3 version is here: https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=315964

Installation:
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1) Upload the file in the "upload" folder to your server.

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

3) If you don't already have keys, go to this page and create keys for your domain. (If you already have keys you can get them from that page as well).

4) Go to Settings > Human Verification Manager, select "New reCAPTCHA" for the Verification Library, and click Save.

5) Enter your keys on the options page, and select the light or dark widget as desired (apparently white and black are the only options at this time). You could select "Audio" to default to audio instead of image for the challenge, but the widget seems to have a bug in it at the moment so I recommend leaving it set to "image". Click Save when you're done selecting options.

6) You can check the configuration and do a test by clicking on "Click here to test connection" which appears under the description in the Human Verification Manager.

7) Do a test registration (or other action that requires hv) to test that your keys are entered correctly and everything is working.

8) If you are upgrading from version 0.9, you can remove the file includes/class_humanverify_newrecaptcha.php (the one without the third underscore) from your server.

History:
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1.0 (Feb 22, 2015)

• Cached template (required renaming the uploaded file from
  class_humanverify_newrecaptcha.php to class_humanverify_new_recaptcha.php)
• Removed default keys (which didn't work anyway)
• Removed trademark symbols
• Changed execution order of plugins from 5 to 4, to make sure this product
  works with another HV add-on that has a bug.
• If "New reCAPTCHA" is selected when this mod is uninstalled, the hv library
  is switched to 'disabled'.
• Added a test option to print out more information about verification failures

0.9 (Dec 11, 2014)

• Initial Release

[ozzy47]

Cool, I thought you might be using more than just this.

[Master Of Unive]

Originally Posted by ozzy47

Do either of you have any other forms of spam protection in place?

Not exactly, but I do use a combination of recaptcha and question verification.

The question verification is mainly used to prevent non-native spammers.

[ozzy47]

Well then that is why you probably had spammers getting through before, Q & A is not enough to stop them.

Hopefully this will work for a good amount of time.

[Master Of Unive]

Originally Posted by ozzy47

Well then that is why you probably had spammers getting through before, Q & A is not enough to stop them.

Hopefully this will work for a good amount of time.

Yeah but I'm still confused. My questions are really hard, they required you to have massive knowledge to be able to answer, even Google cannot help you for all. But bots did get through all the time.

I think most of them are human spammers but not so sure whether it is a system's bug.

[ozzy47]

Well programs such as XRumer have defeated most forms of Q & A as well as most forms of catcha.

That is why i always recommend the spam mods in this thread, http://ozzmodz.com/showthread.php/50...g-Spam-Is-Over

I might add this to the list, once the track record keeps on the proven pace.

[ramesh_umk3]

Your Right brother ! After disabling funcaptcha and keycaptcha only your mod is working bro.

But your mod is worthy cause its ad free and easy interface

Thanks

[ozzy47]

Well I ended up installing this, so we will have to wit and see how it goes.

[I.G.O.T.A.]

Originally Posted by ozzy47

Do either of you have any other forms of spam protection in place?

OH YES, lol.

[ozzy47]

Cool, thanks for the reply.

[DarkTinman]

Thank you! Works like a charm.

I am a bit new to vbulletin, meaning I have only used it for about 3 months. The part of the super simple guide that I got a bit confused on was the import function.

My only thought is if you could make it more clear about the import function. I had never done a product import and accidentally didn't read into your import XML file very well. Even something simple as saying "Use the product import at the bottom left of your admincp" or something like would help.

Anyway, thank you so much for this. It looks like it works and I am hoping I can avoid having 500 bots register each week this time