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.

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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1.0.1 (Feb 1, 2013)

• Initial Release

[kh99]

I couldn't reproduce that. What were you doing when that happened, just trying to register? If you do nothing but disable this mod does it go away?

[Terrablade]

Bah. My bad... I had another bot script also..

[Terrablade]

Email Working too.. Junkmail was doing its job hence I couldnt see them LOL.

[mdawg]

This is kicking a** on my vb 3.8.7 PL 3 forum! Love it! It's stopping bot registration right and left, and not stopping the legitimate peeps. So far, so good.

[mdawg]

Is there a version of this for vb4?

[ozzy47]

Yes, https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=294633

[K-fab]

I'm really impressed with how well this works!

My spamming registrations have gone from 20 a day to 1 in the past two days.

SWEEEEEETTTT!!!!

[kisanjong]

Great mod , another mod / feature that should come as standard for vbulletin.

[sol]

Simple but very effective hack! Working perfectly on 3.8.7, thanks very much!

[RyanC]

So I have this installed and it's working great on a very large forum.... However about five times a day I get an email from a user complaining of this error on registration attempt:

Warning: include(phpwhois-4.2.2/whois.main.php) [function.include]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in [path]/register.php(81) : eval()'d code on line 98
See below?

Warning: include(phpwhois-4.2.2/whois.main.php) [function.include]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in [path]/register.php(81) : eval()'d code on line 98

Warning: include() [function.include]: Failed opening 'phpwhois-4.2.2/whois.main.php' for inclusion (include_path='.:/usr/lib/php:/usr/local/lib/php') in [path]/register.php(81) : eval()'d code on line 98

Fatal error: Class 'Whois' not found in /home/garagejo/public_html/forum/register.php(81) : eval()'d code on line 99

Any idea what could be causing this?