Integration with vBulletin - Stop Forum Spam

Purpose

The purpose of the Stop Forum Spam database integration is to add an effective way to reduce the amount of Spammer registrations on your forum.

Limitations

As of v1.0.0, the modification only works with new registrations. A later update will allow submission of previously registered users as well as integration with moderator controls and user profiles. Also, the modification will eventually have the ability to have more actions besides rejection of the registration.

Installation

Installation includes the uploading of 1 file as well as installing 1 product through the Administrators Control Panel.

1. Upload class_sfs.php to your forum's /includes directory.
2. Install product_kk_sfs_integration.xml through the ACP (ACP -> Plugins & Products -> Manage Products -> [Add/Import Product]
3. Modify the tolerance level, if desired. This can be found under the registration options.
4. Enjoy

Default Tolerance Level

By default, the tolerance level is set to 2. Meaning it must match at least 2 out of 3 fields (Username, IP, and Email) to be rejected. If it only matches 1 field, it will be permitted to go through.

Release History
v1.0.0 -3/28/2010

[giorgino]

Any log of spam rejected?

[King Kovifor]

No. It could be implemented tho.

[deadbolt80]

Where can I find the edit of this mod in my ACP > Settings > Options?

I went down the list 2 times and I still can't find it. I followed the instructions to the T, unless i'm doing something wrong.

EDIT: I found the setting. I wasn't looking in the User Registration section, I thought it'll be like all the mods we install lol.

Ok I normally have to moderate all new registrations to avoid spammers, would this help me not have to moderate or should I continue to moderate anyway? Also, when you say "match 2 criteria," what does it match it against? email endings? IP?

A little explanation will really help.

Thank you.

[King Kovifor]

There was no need for a new setting group. You should be able to turn off moderation. And it searches the database using the email, username and IP. If the information is a match, it rejects the registration.

[firefoxextreme]

Not 1 spammer has gotten through with the mod enabled, a big thanks Batman & Robin

[King Kovifor]

You thoroughly perplexed me by calling me batman & robin, then I remembered what my avatar was. Lol.

Still looking for feature suggestions! Currently, I am working on a ACP tool that'd allow an administrator with the ability to manage users to search the database for suspect registrations and bring them to the attention of those who ran it for removal (and in the future, the new options for handling registrations). I plan on also integrating this tool into profiles.

[firefoxextreme]

I think a log of rejected registrations would be really cool then I can add them to my access list of ips.

[legacy123]

installed

[Fungsten]

One concern. When I unzipped it it said that it would lose it's encryption. Is that anything to be concerned about? TIA.

On Edit:

Where does the database that matches in reg info come from?

[ScEmH]

Installed. Thank you for making this, bots have been hitting my forum hard lately so hopefully this will help.

In the future could you add admin options that lets us choose specifically what fields to reject by? IE: Matching by just email and IP, or just by IP?

I'm requesting it because rejecting by matching two things won't always work because I have noticed some of the bots that are in that database have the same IP but nothing else. Sure, I could get around that problem by having it only match one field.... But that in itself is very dodgy. With that set it could match by just username and create a ton of false positives, as some of the names bots use are really common.