Administrative and Maintenance Tools - ragtek Botscout Register Check

This add-on will compare the new users on registration with the data from botscout (botscout is a big botdatabase)

So if the user is a bot, he'll get an errormessage instead of being registered

How it's working:
The Ip and mailadress of the user who tries to register there will be send to botscout
now botscout sends an answer and you will know whetere if its a bot or not

the provider allows 20 requests per day
For more you have to organize a API key which you can get at www.botscout.com/getkey
in the VB Settings by the Userregistry options you have to enter the key(if you have one)



The second function against bots is the timecheck.
This modification is checking the timedifferenz between the call of the registerform and the submiting.
If it is sent to fast, you can be sure that it's a bot.






In the dontuploadfolder you'll find the english language file.

You'll find the seetings in the acp -> vBulletin Options ->User Registration Options

German Info: http://ragtek.org/blog/vbulletin/rag...egister-check/


History:
1.0.0
Added registrationtime check
Added registrationsupport if botscout is down

[BecomeUnbroken]

Installed.. Hopefully it works, I'm sick and tired of looking up emails and ip addresses on botscout then deleting accounts.

[Canron]

Originally Posted by ragtek

Sorry, but i don't see a sense for a mail.
Why anybody would want to get 1-200 mails per day with an stupid info (=> a bot was stopped entering your board)

On the botscout page you can see the stats. Isn't that enought?
But it wouldn't be hard to implement it.

I only Admin a small forum with about new 8 bots a day, emails would be usefull just so I can easily judge the effectiveness of the plugin and botscout without logging in to botscout.

The non-plugin boutscout email alerts to me was usefull but I had issues with genuine signups getting the confirmation email, hence why I dropped it and used your plugin which works great!

Maybe just a switch in the plugin so users can chose to get emails with your plugin?

As I say, great plugin raktek, thanks for sharing it.

Canron

[spwolf]

thanks for the plugin, works fine... in my case, it is catching low level of spammers, but it seems someone is manually doing signups... it is quick and painless so thank you!