Anti-Spam Options - Fassim Anit Spam - (Block Countries, Proxies, SpamBots, Disposable Email Addresses)

PLEASE COPY YOUR API KEY BEFORE UPDATING VERSIONS

****** Please mark installed if you're using it. ******

• Blocks spammers via IP / Email.
• Allow or Block countries and Regions (i.e States: Arizona, New York) from registering to your forum.
• Block anonymous proxies.
• Block Top Spamming Domains.
• Block Top Spamming ISP?s.
• Block Disposable Email Addresses
• Scan posts and allow you to moderate the posts
• DNSBL checks

If the new registering member is determined to be a bot or spammer, they will receive a message telling them they are not allowed to register.

It will also scan posts and determine if the post is spam or not. You have 4 options if the post is determined to be spam.

**Note: Post scans will only work with English.
Nothing.
Moderate Post
Soft Delete
Physically Delete

To install: import product-fassim_1.3.xml into your vBulletin Products section. After its installed goto vBulletin Option -> Fassim Anti Spam Options, insert your API key that you will need to get from our website (www.fassim.com).

Also, follow us on Twitter (https://twitter.com/forumspam) for the latest ipTables and Apache block lists, so you can block spammers at the server level.. why let them waste resources?!

This will work on all versions of vb4. Will work in conjunction with other spam filters, this will just give you more options to kill SPAM.

[moonclamp]

Does every site need a separate key?

It's been a while since I installed this and, with the site being down, I cannot remember - but could I use the key from a previous installation on another domain?

[brandon515]

Looks like the site no longer exists and my old key no longer works. Is there a way to modify this plugin so that it can look to my site for the list of countries and IP's? All I really need it for is to prevent specific countries from registering.

[RichieBoy67]

Some of my clients use this mod:
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=198440

[RichieBoy67]

I don't think it will block but it will moderate..

[djbaxter]

Yes, that mod, Administrative and Maintenance Tools - Moderate New Registrations Based On IP Geographical Origin - vBulletin.org Forum, was still working well on a forum where I was an admin. You do need to update the IP addresses periodically (see the mod instructions) but it worked well on 4.2.x sites.

I only stopped using it because the forum went to full moderation for all new registrations.

[RichieBoy67]

Really? That hasn't happened to me. I haven't done anything with the ips...

[djbaxter]

You should be updating them. With declining IP4 addresses, and reassigning them to other locales, by now you are probably blocking IPs you don't want to block. For example, several IP4 ranges that used to be in Asian countries are now assigned to the US.

[RichieBoy67]

At the very worst they go into moderation I believe. I will have to check as it has been awhile. Thanks

[djbaxter]

That's correct but if your clients are assuming any registration in moderation is "bad" they might not be checking further.

[koneil]

Hi guys,

I quit updating this MOD long ago, but am work on something new and better.

I'll keep you posted.

@RichieBoy67
You'll need to keep those IP updated. IP owners change all the time.

Fassim you didn't have to worry about that because we kept everything up to date on our end.. when a request came in it would check in real time.