Anti-Spam Options - Spambot Stopper - Prevent Spambots from Registering

What is it?
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This mod rejects registrations where the form is filled out in less than a minimum time. You can configure one of the following actions to be taken when an automated registration is detected:

- Show a "No Permissions" page
- Display the "Successful Registration" message but without creating an account
- Redirect the user to any URL you choose
- Reload the registration page with an error message of your choosing

You can also provide a list of email addresses to be notified each time a registration is blocked.

Added for version 1.1.1: Time delay enforcer, maximum time option, time limits to cut down on email notifications, posting to a thread.

In the future, I'd like to add some simple logging and statistics, and a summary type of email notification (because people seem to quickly get tired of the single emails).

Note: I coded this myself from scratch, but I would like to acknowledge a couple of previous mods that used this same idea, by users Calorie and noppid, and maybe others. In any case, I believe this one adds some features that the others don't have.

Other advantages: no ads or links, no abuse of update notifications, no disappearing features, no threats to delete the mod (it will never be deleted, at least by me). Also, translations are allowed.

Installation:
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1) If you have "Is Bot", "Stop the Registration Bots", "Spammers Suck!", or another mod that works on registration time, note any admincp settings for that mod then uninstall it.

2) Import the product XML file from the Product Manager.

3) Go to Settings > Options > Spambot Stopper Options and configure the desired settings.

4) IMPORTANT: try to register a new user to make sure that there are no problems with humans registering. If you want, you can also temporarily set the minimum time to a higher value (like 60 seconds) and test to see if the spammer rejection is working.



History:
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1.1.1 (Feb 16, 2013)

• Added timer for enforcing minimum time
• Added maximum registration time limit
• Added time limits for email notifications
• Added posting notificatiosn to a thread

1.0.1 (Feb 01, 2013)

• Fixed bug
• Added check for fake timestamps

1.0 (Jan 31, 2013)

• Initial Release

[Bow Walker]

Installed this mod on my site and am very impressed at the results.

Went from 20 (or more) spammers per day down to zero - and yet authentic member applications are still getting through! Love it

[neya]

I already IP　Banned entire of china to　prevent spam but russian, german, polish spam bots were still getting through and as i have no intention of IP Banning those countries as they have A large amount of legitimate users this was the perfect solution. The delay is set to　20　Seconds and I have added a message to notify legitimate members that they must stay on the page for over 20 seconds if they wish to register (as it is to fight spam bots), and so far it's taken care of the bots wonderfully, as well as letting the legitimate ones through.

Overall, this is absolutely fantastic and has been a great help, props.

[datoneer]

Doesn't work for me. I don't receive any 'no permission page'...tried 25,30 and 60 sec

[kh99]

Originally Posted by datoneer

Doesn't work for me. I don't receive any 'no permission page'...tried 25,30 and 60 sec

I can't think of why that would happen. Make sure "Enable Spambot Stopper" is set to Yes in the options. If it still doesn't work, maybe there's a conflict with another mod. Do you have any other mods installed that have to do with registration? Do you have a custom registration page or anything like that?

[datoneer]

Yes it is set to yes. I have dbtech advanced registration but still doesn't work if i disable that mod

[Ba'al]

Please specify how to add thread ID so i can have it post in a thread, is it a specific number or the thread url.Thanx

Can you show me an example.

Edit: I got it working.............Thanx

[Bluemax712]

Originally Posted by apsrfvb4

I was able to get it working by changing this setting for Spam-O-Matic: AutoModeration URL count
-changed it from the default of 0 to a 1 (or anything higher)

if above is set to 0 the Glowhost log says: "Post put under moderation based on Auto-Moderation URL count"

but can't explain why spam-o-matic is not ignoring this since the Spambot Stopper poster id=1

Hi kh99,
Just wondering if you ever had a chance to look at this problem
or if you were able to duplicate it?

The above fix works (setting Automoderation count to 1)
but ofc this lets the spammers post that first URL without moderation

Would like to reenable posting the Registrations to a thread again
but having Spam-O-Matic:AutoModeration URL count set to 0 is of more importance

Thanks

Edit: this was the orignal post
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showpost....&postcount=129

[kh99]

To be honest I didn't understand that you still had a problem with that. Sorry it's been so long but I'm having trouble getting back to this. In fact, there's an issue with facebook registration that I said I'd try to fix immediately and that was over a week ago. But I'll try to look at that and your problem tomorrow.

[Bluemax712]

Originally Posted by kh99

To be honest I didn't understand that you still had a problem with that. Sorry it's been so long but I'm having trouble getting back to this. In fact, there's an issue with facebook registration that I said I'd try to fix immediately and that was over a week ago. But I'll try to look at that and your problem tomorrow.

Yes - that's why reposted it
figured my problem did look like it was solved from my original response.

Thanks much!

[kh99]

Originally Posted by apsrfvb4

I was able to get it working by changing this setting for Spam-O-Matic: AutoModeration URL count
-changed it from the default of 0 to a 1 (or anything higher)

if above is set to 0 the Glowhost log says: "Post put under moderation based on Auto-Moderation URL count"

but can't explain why spam-o-matic is not ignoring this since the Spambot Stopper poster id=1

Edit again: I believe the problem is in the spam-o-matic product, and that is should not apply the rules if the post 'is_automated' is set at all. As it is, it only skips the rules if 'is_auotmated' is set to 'rss', but I see places in the vbulletin code that just set it to true. This probably doesn't cause a problem normally because it's rare for one of those situations to occur when the current user has fewer than 6 posts (or isn't an admin or mod). I've sent a PM to the spam-o-matic author, so hopefully we'll get it worked out one way or another.

Anyway, if you want to try a temporary fix, you could try going to Plugins & Products > Plugin Manager, and find the section "Product: Spambot Stopper", and edit the "Post to Thread" plugin. Find this line:

      $dm->set_info('is_automated', 'sbs');

and change 'sbs' to 'rss'.