New Posting Features - Check4SPAM - Advanced SPAM Search & Destroy!

This project is closed. I do not give persmission for anyone to continue it or use any of the code contained in it.

[cfish]

Installed, nice and easy, great options - thank you!

[cfish]

OK, this works very well but... what I discovered is that when a spammer can't add links to a post, they add them to their signature instead!

Could this be added as an option? Users less than X posts cannot have links in their posts AND cannot have links in their signatures. Then it really would be bomb-proof.

[woostar]

is do'able
because I orginally wrote this for my forum (and don't allow newbies signatures via usergroup promotions) that was never a problem. Leave it with me and I'll see what I can do.

Should be as simple as just finding the right hook.

[cfish]

Originally Posted by woostar

is do'able
because I orginally wrote this for my forum (and don't allow newbies signatures via usergroup promotions) that was never a problem.

Actually, now that you mention it, the usergroup promotions method seems a better way forward. Thanks for the tip.

One improvement you could still make is to add a link back to this thread on the product title in the list of installed products from the control panel. I like to use that fot checking for updates.

[woostar]

Good idea. I have some more ideas for the mod so will add that on the next update. For the time being if you want to do it manually:-

Goto 'Plugins & Products' > 'Manage Products'
Select 'Edit', next to Check4SPAM - SPAM detector
and paste: https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?p=1470652 into 'Product URL' and save.

[KuJoe]

It says it currently doesn't stop spammers from posting images... can't you just add img to the SPAM Keywords list or does it not read BBCode like that?

[woostar]

That's an advantage (not all webmasters want to block images) if you want to stop all newbies form posting pictures then you can just add '[img|' to the beginning of URL identifiers or '[url]' (without ' ') to the SPAM keywords (if you just want moderate them). For instances on my forum I allow images (and will do until unless spammers start targetting with images).

BTW I've made a little change to the URL identifiers (because someone managed to sneak one through lastnight by putting domain {.} com)

[url|www .|www. |w-w-w|w.w.w|.html|.htm|.shtml|.php|.asp|.cgi|(dot)|[dot]|{dot}|(.)|[.]|{.}|.com |.net |.org |.info |.co.uk |.com/ |.net/ |.org/ |.info/ |co.uk/ | . com | . net | . org | . co.uk | . info |.com.|.net.|.org.|.info.|co.uk.

[Noctavia]

Excellent mod, thankyou very much.

Is there a way to alter what the post looks like when it tells you what the post in question is? Like take the bold off the [URL Attempt] User received an error - No action required! message, add in the user name of the poster etc? I tried to find it under templates but couldn't see anything for the mod...

[woostar]

The only reason why it has the [URL Attempt] in red is because it's actually a link to where they tried to post the link. As for the posters name; the actual post is in the posters name.

I'll see if I can add some extra options in the new version.

[woostar]

by the way I've noticed 2 tiny little bugs in this version (that are easily fixable before I release the new version).

• I had someone type "Awwwwwwwww." on my forum the other day and it got flagged (because off the 'www. ' identifier).
• I also had some type (.)(.) which is the forum slang for boobs (which flagged the '(.)' identifier).

To get around these update your URL identifiers to:

[url|www .|w-w-w|w.w.w|.html|.htm|.shtml|.php|.asp|.cgi|(dot)|[dot]|{dot}|(.) |[.]|{.}|.com |.net |.org |.info |.co.uk |.com/ |.net/ |.org/ |.info/ |co.uk/ | . com | . net | . org | . co.uk | . info |.com.|.net.|.org.|.info.|co.uk.