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.

[koneil]

Let me know if you have questions.

[moonclamp]

Originally Posted by moonclamp

Scrap that! I think it was 'cos I entered UK instead of GB!

Nope, it isn't that. I tried to set up a test account and wasn't allowed in

[koneil]

Can you send me a screenshot of your config in vb and your domain name to my email address: kevin @ fassim.com?

[moonclamp]

I've changed the config now so it won't show what you need.

It was set to "allow "with just a small handful of countries given access. I could tell from online.php that it was actually blocking signups, so I assume that the UK/GB IP list is incomplete.

I spent a long time making an opposite list and now have it set to block ... so far, so good!

[koneil]

Originally Posted by moonclamp

I've changed the config now so it won't show what you need.

It was set to "allow "with just a small handful of countries given access. I could tell from online.php that it was actually blocking signups, so I assume that the UK/GB IP list is incomplete.

I spent a long time making an opposite list and now have it set to block ... so far, so good!

I checked all the IP addresses from my logs that your server tried to lookup they show United Kingdom and a few other countries. The list that we use is a commercial list that is updated constantly so I don't think that is the issue.

If you give me that IP addresses that we're giving you issues, I will run them through and confirm that they are in our system correctly.

I'm glad everything is running good now!

[moonclamp]

86.157.161.164 was the user who couldn't sign up.
87.74.77.232 is my one that failed when I created a test account.

[koneil]

Originally Posted by moonclamp

86.157.161.164 was the user who couldn't sign up.
87.74.77.232 is my one that failed when I created a test account.

Both are listed at country code = GB

[moonclamp]

Originally Posted by koneil

Both are listed at country code = GB

In which case there's possibly a problem with the "allow" option.

[koneil]

Originally Posted by moonclamp

In which case there's possibly a problem with the "allow" option.

I just tried only Allow US on my forum and I could register fine. Then I set it to a different country to test to make sure it wouldn't let me and I couldn't. So I know that part works fine.

[moonclamp]

Well that's clearly not the case here, although it may be a conflict with another plugin.

The solution I have seems to be working though, it just means a bigger list of blocked countries.

I'm happy, so no worries