Administrative and Maintenance Tools - vbStopForumSpam

At the point of user registration, the mod checks if the IP number / provided username / email addresses appear on a block list and can block the registration. This queries the StopForumSpam database (where I am a coder and administrator) to see if a new users IP address/email address/IP number are listed as known spammer sources.

Whilst this isnt the most perfect way to stop all forum spam, its another step that spammers have to overcome.

What it does

It checks with a remote database of known forum spammers. Their IP number, email address and forum username are tested and based on your configuration, you can reject / log / accept user registrations based on what you get back.

This version doesnt have
- whitelisting or the ability to submit users to the database but it will within the next week.
- automatic user deletion / post / PM purging. There are good tools out there already, this does something else.

Currently, I would say this is an beta codebase. Please treat it as such.

Instructions are included in the installation.txt file - PLEASE read it first and dont forget to actually upload the files in the upload folder, otherwise it WILL kill your registration progress and you wont see the log file options in admincp.

This is the exact same version that is on the 3.6 forums because it works with 3.54 to 3.84 (at time of wriing, the latest version)

Changes to vB
- 3 new database tables
- 2 database table alternations
- No new templates.
- 2 Hook (register_addmember_process & register_addmember_complete)

Known to work - tested by me
- vBulletin 3.6.8 on Apache 2.2 / PHP 5.1.2 on Linux using cUrl
- vBulletin 3.7 Gold on Apache 2.0 / PHP 4.4.3 on Windows without cUrl (template changes wont work on 3.7 - thats in the next version with auto template changes)

For code to submit spammers to the database, check this post for code changes
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showp...&postcount=288

Reported in the thread to work
- 3.5.4 3.6.1, 3.6.2, 3.6.9, 3.6.10, 3.7.0, 3.7.1, 3.7.2, 3.7.3, 3.74, 3.80, 3.81, 3.82, 3.83, 3.8.4

Installers should remember to refresh their ACP navigation window when they first install it so they can see the new log file menu item.

REQUIRES MySQL 4.1.1+

If you want to submit data directly from the user admincp to the database, then you can install an addon mod (Coded by Wired1) here https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showpost....&postcount=288

You need to have an API key from www.stopforumspam.com in order to submit data, its free and easy to get... The code above is a quick hack that changes the pages "form" so that it submits to the database. As its a quick hack, this relies 100% on javascript being enabled and makes no tests that it is enabled.

Please click Installed

[ETDC]

It's now back up. If you care about your forum - and more importantly, your members - then install this today.

[Scalemotorcars]

I love this mod and its been working great for a long time but I still have to check registrations sometimes. Today I got another spam registration. Seems these guys are either getting smarter or using more resources to overwhelm them system.

I hope it gets fixed sometime soon. Like I said its one of the best mods on VB.Org

[Alex510]

I thought it was just me.. but I have been getting database errors like crazy with this Mod. Seems to be working now though.

[TROLL]

In the AdminCP setup page:

Query Connection Errors
What should happen if the remote connection times out when querying the new registration?
* Note: Only applies if set to block listed registrations in the above setting

Allow Registration
or
Block Registration

Does this mean if it fails to connect with the stopforumspam website database should it block or allow by default? Am I correct in that it should Allow by default in this situation? Thanks...

[meijin]

Installed in v3.8.7 PL2 and seems to be working. However, when I go to have a look at the log file, it displays...but at the top of the page I get nine (9) of these error messages on different lines:

Deprecated: Assigning the return value of new by reference is deprecated in /var/www/vhosts/myforumname.net/httpdocs/includes/init.php on line 55

and this single error message:

Deprecated: Assigning the return value of new by reference is deprecated in /var/www/vhosts/myforumname.net/httpdocs/includes/class_core.php on line 2552

Sorry for being a newbie to this, but could someone help me to understand what is happening here and how I might correct it? Working or not, I can pretty well figure out that I should not be getting this.

Thanks in advance for your help!

[owning_y0u]

when clicking the link in the sp i get invalid post

https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showpost....&postcount=288 then i get: Invalid Post specified. If you followed a valid link, please notify the administrator

[CBryant911]

I tried this mod on my latest version of PHP and it wouldn't work, it gave a deprecated message for init.php and class_core.php or something like that.

[popowich]

If you are trying a new install of this addon in a vB 3.8.x forum powered by MySQL Server 5.5.x :

• Download the zip file
• Extract and edit the product XML file
  • Change the (3) lines that have :

) TYPE=MyISAM;"

• and make them look like :

);"

With that change the product appears to install and function correctly.

[Ghostt]

Important security question:
How Can be the whole LOG or the IP log disabled ?

[MotMann]

Spam on Blog. What can i do? Over 400 Message in the Blog or Privat side.