Anti-Spam Options - NoSpam! Image Enhancement (New version of No Spam! for Custom Image Verification)

Anti-SPAM Tool.



This is an enhanced version of the popular NoSpam! mod by antialiasis for vBulletin 3.7

Original Mod Thread Here: https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=183329

This mod was marked "Re-usable Code" so I have added a new feature that turns this into an Image Verification mod.

I thank antialiasis for the groundwork and his original mod and thank him again for allowing the code to be re-used by the community.

This new version of NoSpam! called NoSpam! Image Enhancement turns the very popular NoSpam! mod into a custom image verification system. The VB4 version only works on Registration, Threads/Posts, and/or Contact Us pages.

Besides just setting a question and answer(s) you now also set an image which is displayed along with the question. You should make your question based on the image.

For example: If you have an image with two cats, you can ask the question, "How many cats are in this picture?" and you can set the acceptable answers to: 2 and two. (Answers are NOT case sensitive.)

If you used the original NoSpam! mod you will quickly understand how to format the question, image, and answers. If you never used the NoSpam! mod I have included specific instructions and examples.

Two example images are included with the zip and will be need to be uploaded to your /images/nospam directory (which you will create.)

When you import the product it will automatically be setup to work with the two example images.

These are EXAMPLES- you should add your own images and questions as soon as possible.

BE CREATIVE with your images and questions. The more creative you are the harder it will be for spammers to crack this.

Sometimes you might be able to ask several different questions based on the same picture.

Useful Tip: DO NOT include the answer to the question in the file name of the image. This will be the easiest way for bots to try and answer your questions.

This is Version 1.0 - Official Release

Demo: http://www.qapla.com/mods/sendmessage.php (on the "contact us" page) Will also show on the registration page.
(You must be logged out or a guest to see it in action on Qapla.com)

See screenshots for more examples.

Disability Compliance: Please understand this mod will make it impossible for blind users to register on your forum. The "alt" text of each image will tell people if they can't see the image please contact the administrator. Please be considerate and offer alternate means of registration on your forum somehow/somewhere besides your normal registration.

This has been tested on VB 4.0.8 and 4.2.0 and should work on all VB 4..x.x versions.

Please Mark as Installed if you use this.
Donations are always appreciated. :up:

[bzcomputers]

Originally Posted by Lpspider

Hi,

It looks like sometimes when I reload the registration page the image won't load. It works 98% of the time, but part of the time it'll show the filename. Ex: obama.jpeg instead of the image. I checked and the image is set up correct in the directory.

It worked fine in my testing, the only reason I noticed is because I user emailed me and told me. Thoughts on what might cause this?

I believe I noticed this also when checking to make sure all images were working. I was refreshing the registration page making sure all images came up and noticed occasionally you would get just the filename reference and not the image.

[BirdOPrey5]

Originally Posted by Eagle Eyes

How can this be skipped for Facebook Connect users?

It just removed the whole point of facebook connect.

I don't know offhand how I would skip it for Facebook Connect. Honestly I'm not sure I'd want to, I do hear of spammers using Facebook too... Can't promise I'll be making any changes for this.

Originally Posted by dog-tag

Anyway we can get this to work with the mobile template?
It works wonderfully with the normal ones, but people on mobiles are not seeing it.

Spam tools like xRumer etc will know to try the mobile version instead.

Actually you can't register at all via mobile because it looks for an answer that isn't present- this issue I will look into.

Originally Posted by Lpspider

Hi,

It looks like sometimes when I reload the registration page the image won't load. It works 98% of the time, but part of the time it'll show the filename. Ex: obama.jpeg instead of the image. I checked and the image is set up correct in the directory.

It worked fine in my testing, the only reason I noticed is because I user emailed me and told me. Thoughts on what might cause this?

Originally Posted by bzcomputers

I believe I noticed this also when checking to make sure all images were working. I was refreshing the registration page making sure all images came up and noticed occasionally you would get just the filename reference and not the image.

I can't see how it would show the filename and not the image other than the browser doesn't load the image for whatever reason and the browser shows the filename in place of the "missing" image. I've been using this for a long time and never seen it happen on my forum- please provide a screenshot if you can when you see it happen again.

[Alibass]

Originally Posted by Lpspider

Hi,

It looks like sometimes when I reload the registration page the image won't load. It works 98% of the time, but part of the time it'll show the filename. Ex: obama.jpeg instead of the image. I checked and the image is set up correct in the directory.

It worked fine in my testing, the only reason I noticed is because I user emailed me and told me. Thoughts on what might cause this?

I've seen this issue happen if you're trying to use the same pic name for several different questions. If you are then rename pic according to your question.

[dog-tag]

Just turned off my mobile themes! Wish I knew this quicker lol

[john7911]

Thank you

[zascok]

Originally Posted by BirdOPrey5

Actually you can't register at all via mobile because it looks for an answer that isn't present- this issue I will look into.

I'm sorry BirdOPrey5, do you have any news for mobile theme, even if it's not ready yet as a plugin, I don't mind adding it manually

[BirdOPrey5]

No update yet,sorry.

[datoneer]

And what about usergroups? To exclude, can you add it please?

[datoneer]

Sorry wrong question lol

[datoneer]

This is what i receive while trying to register:

Warning: require_once([path]/includes/class_humanverify_keycaptcha.php) [function.require-once]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in [path]/includes/class_humanverify.php on line 59
Fatal error: require_once() [function.require]: Failed opening required '/home/_____/public_html/includes/class_humanverify_keycaptcha.php' (include_path='.:/usr/lib/php:/usr/local/lib/php') in /home/_____/public_html/includes/class_humanverify.php on line 59