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

[AshMagic]

This seems to be working well as I haven't had any bot/spam sign ups today. I normally would of had about 10 by now!

[ragtek]

if you got an api key, cou can see your stats on there site

[jrap]

Installed and working, thanks!

[Zidane007nl]

Installed it, thanks for sharing.
reCaptcha didn't really help decreasing the spambots...

[ragtek]

New Version is available:

1.0.0
Added registrationtime check
Added registrationsupport if botscout is down

[digicom]

Thanks for update ragtek :up:

[ShawnV]

Thanks for the update, however my German is a little rusty.

Also the link in the installed products page points to .vbulletin-germany.org


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Originally Posted by ragtek

New Version is available:

1.0.0
Added registrationtime check
Added registrationsupport if botscout is down

[ragtek]

I've wrote that the languagefile is in the dontupload folder

isn't it? or is something with it wrong?
thx

[ShawnV]

Yeah the language file is in that folder, the read me text however doesn't have English install instructions at the bottom in the updated package like before, and a few of the phrases are still in German even after importing the English file. Just details.. great MOD.

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[ragtek]

oh
sorry, havn't seen that

i'll update it, thx