Anti-Spam Options - Is Bot: Registration Time Check

This mod calculates the time it takes to go between these two pages:

• /forum/register.php?do=register
• /forum/register.php?do=addmember

The point is to try and prevent bots from registering at your forum when the time between the two pages is humanly impossible, assuming that humans actually take the time to complete the registration page.

Should a user be blocked from registering at your forum, an email will be sent to your vB webmasteremail address and the user will see the vB noregister phrase message, so no screenshot is necessary.

[Max Taxable]

Originally Posted by EWGF

Spam increase lately =/

I'm sure this lightweight will help in some way, thanks

All it will do is end all of the autospam pretty much.

[sv1cec]

I had that in my vB 3.0.xx forums site, so I just installed it in the new 4.2.

May I humbly suggest that the author updates the instructions, in the first post, for 4.2? Not quite productive to go through 27 pages, before finding the required changes for the latest version.

Thanks to Calorie for this!

[sv1cec]

Anyone knows how to add the IP address from where the bot is coming in the email sent? Better yet, can someone derive the code for adding that IP address to the banned IP addresses list?

[nick!]

Just installed, thanks.

[sv1cec]

This hack is doing a great work at stopping spammers. I just wish it would allow us to add the banned IP addresses to the banned IP addresses list.

[nick!]

This bot is doing a great job, is there a way to stop the emails from bot alerts coming to my email address? I am getting on avg 20-30 new bots being blocked a day, so its cluttering up my emails, lol.

[sv1cec]

That's easy, just go in the plug-in and find this line

vbmail($vbulletin->options['webmasteremail'], $isbot_subject, $isbot_message, true);

Add a "#" in front of that line so it looks like this:

# vbmail($vbulletin->options['webmasteremail'], $isbot_subject, $isbot_message, true);

and that should stop the emails coming to your inbox.

[evouga]

Got this installed. Tested it myself and got the "Administrator has disabled registrations" error. However, I didn't receive an email for my attempt even though I properly edited my email into register_addmember_process.

Is this typical, or have I done something wrong?

[nick!]

Not sure why, it should gather the info for your email within the vb panel, make sure thats the one your using...

[ETDC]

Where is the 'vb register template' we're supposed to ammend? The code to add to isn't in 'register.php' if that's what you have to do...