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== What this Plugin does ==
The following product will place a hidden blank text box (humans can not see these text box, but Bots can) in your Register, Posting, Replying and Quick Reply forms. When the post is submitted there will be a check done on this hidden field to see if it was filled out. If a bot has filled in the hidden field the post will be rejected and a "Spam Message" will appear. This is not hi-tech spam prevention, but does work pretty well and does not interfere with human posting in any way. Ive implement it on Forum Extension which i wrote for the MediaWiki system and it worked out pretty good. == Theory behind the mod == Spam bots automatically fill in any blank text fields they "see". By placing a text field in the posting form and then hiding it (via css, div hiding does not work that well) only bots can see the field, humans can not. So if the field is filled in during form submission it would have to be filled in by a bot and not a human since the human can not see the field. After the post is submitted it will be checked to see if the field is empty or not. If the field is empty the post will go through, if the field has info in it, the submission will die with a Spam Message (not that the bot will read this, but the message can also work as error control). This mod was inspired by : http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:SimpleAntiSpam This product has been tested on: vBulletin 3.6.5, 3.7.0 Installation: Install the plugin via your AdminCP. AdminCP -> Plugins & Products -> Manage Products -> [Add/Import Product] There are four template edits which the plugin automatically does for you. There is a "ReadMe" included which has the edits in there in case you want to know what they are. Admin Options: AdminCP ->vBulletin Options -> AWC's SpamBot Protection
1.0 to 1.x Upgrade info: If you have installed 1.0 and are upgrading to 1.x you will have to remove the template edits you made before (sorry about this, wont happen again ). Search and remove the following from your templates: PHP Code:
Plugin Version History: Ver. 1.2 - Dec 25, 2008 - Added -- AdminCP page -- Test Option -- Move spam post to selected forum -- Redirect option for registration -- PM or Email banned member name to selected members - Changed - How text field was added to Quick Reply (to make compatible with Vb 3.6.x) Ver. 1.1 - Dec 22, 2008 - Changed to auto template edits - Added new hidden field to Register form - Added auto ban option Ver. 1.0 - Dec 20, 2008 - Add 3 hidden fields (Quote, New Reply and New Thread) and check: - Manual template edits Heres the AdminCP section... Its been a long time since ive dabbled with vbulletin so im sure there are other ways to implement this. Any feed back would be great. Enjoy. _ Show Your Support
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The name for a field is generated by a script random or it is constant?
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Don't know if the plug-in works with 3.8.x
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downloaded
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Is this Mod working for 3.8.x ? Anyone has experience in that matter ?
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Either way though, the automatic template edits are forced, and it causes a W3C Validation error because it injects the CSS directly in the middle of the page instead of at the top. So, I'm probably going to disable this for now, or maybe remove the CSS entry from the plugins and add it back in manually myself. |
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i downloaded it......
it stopped a few bots but some are still getting through |
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Can anyone confirm that it works fine with 3.8.x?
Can we change the name of the hidden field? |
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Have spammers anticipated or is this mod still effective?
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Anyone do this for 4.1 yet?
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If a user uses Roboform password manager to generate their password and fill in their name and e-mail, this plug-in blocks the registration. I've had this stop me from registering on a few forums, I had to start over and enter everything by hand. When I first had it happen, I just thought the forum was broken, and I left.
There are millions of legitimate users that use password manager type of tools to fill out forms. I strongly suggest you add a manual warning to users that they can not use password manager type of tools to sign up for your site. I strongly suspect your turning away legitimate users with this tool. I'm contacting Roboform to see if a work-around can be programmed. |
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