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vbStopForumSpam Mod of the month winner October 2009.... That cant be bad :up: Apologies in advance, this is a copy of the 3.6/3.7/3.8 mod that has been verified to work in 4.0 (its so that I dont get a billion PMs asking if it works in 4.0) This provides access to a RBL type system for forum admins, listing known spam IP / email / usernames. The RBL database is provided by www.stopforumspam.com. You do NOT need an API key from the website in order to access the database. only to submit data if you should wish to do so. 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. 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. 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. Changes to vB - 3 new database tables - 2 database table alternations - No new templates. - 2 Hook (register_addmember_process & register_addmember_complete) Ive tested it but had feedback that it works with versions as old as 3.6.2... Support should go back to older versions, as long as they have hook support for register_addmember_process / register_addmember_complete For code to submit spammers to the database, check this post for code changes https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showpost....&postcount=288 Reported to work - 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, 4.0beta3, 4.0 Gold, 4.2pl1,2 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+ There is a small mod, coded by Wired1 that will allow you to submit spammer details to the database from the admin control panel, here https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showpost....&postcount=289 This relies 100% on javascript being enabled and makes no tests that it is enabled. You need to have an API key from www.stopforumspam.com in order to submit data, its free and easy to get... You DONT need an API key in order to use this mod however, only to submit spammer data. Issues are - The usergroup permissions / view details etc DONT work. I jumped the gun and put the permissions controls in there before I put the code in. Please delete the includes/xml/bitfield_vbstopforumspam.xml file and rebuild your postbit Installation - Follow the instructions in the zip file, that includes the file upload the correct folders. Please click Installed The original thread is at https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=176481 where there is a wealth of knowledge about the mod, please ask questions in there. Download Now
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01-20-2010, 04:01 PM
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 It really works to vB 4.0.1 
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01-21-2010, 04:40 PM
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i repeatedly get [REMOTEERR] Unverfied and rejected by policy
what could be causing this??? i assume this is a connection error of some sort.
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01-21-2010, 06:13 PM
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Working fine with 4.0.1 for me.
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Other than Name matches, I can't see how many registrations that would be on the IP or email lists. (I disabled Name checks.) For being able to submit, I have my site send me an email on every successful registration. In that email, I have modified it to generate a link that I can submit a spammer. If they get thru (such as being a new spammer) I can just click the link in the email and it is submitted. Yeah, I would like it within the plugin, but considering that I have had only 2 false positives I would rather have caught the thousands of attempts. (Even the false positives were debatable.. as it seemed the people had malware infestations and were showing up in other places as spammers as well.) In newuser email, add the following: Code:
Report User To StopForumSpam http://www.stopforumspam.com/post.php?username=$username&ip_addr=$ipaddress&email=$email&api_key=(Your SFS API Key)
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01-21-2010, 08:27 PM
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Is this only blocking people who are trying to register or people who are browsing the site?
Since installing this on 1/18, I have 254 log entries for vbStopForumSpam... I do not get that many registrations per day - 3 or 4 is considered a "busy day" for registrations. Why is it that all of these spammers that are now being blocked were not successfully registering before this was installed? The only "captcha" that I have is a question: "What model did Chevrolet build? Camaro or Firebird?" It's not like it's hard for a human to answer that and I seriously doubt that the single question was blocking THAT MANY spammers or was it? Just shocked at the logs. I'm almost wondering if installing this has made it that more enticing to the spammers or something. Quote:
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01-22-2010, 02:25 AM
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It could be that they were not trying to get thru an actively register.
I had a lot of registration "attempts" that were not completed where they were running scripts trying out different things but making sure that they didn't actually register. From what I understand this mod catches them during any attempt, even those ones that try to capture all the questions of some sites or try different things to help build their script.
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01-22-2010, 08:50 AM
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have many others had this [REMOTEERR] error
i think it is a connection error of some description but i can tfor the life of me figure out why its happening. it works fine on one server but not on others. Anyone have a fix for the [REMOTEERR] errors?
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#69
01-25-2010, 12:30 AM
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Just installed this, hope it works good!
On the plus side, I logged into the stopspam website and checked a few IPs from known spammers that I have and they were all listed. So that's good news. =) I'd also recommend everyone get an API key so you can submit spammers as well. The more people on board, the better the system is.
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01-27-2010, 05:59 PM
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Anyone have a fix for the [REMOTEERR] errors?
- This is what happens when your webserver cant connect to our server for some reason, either DNS failure (and I see a LOT of hosts with bad DNS configurations), our server being down, network issues, any reasons really. The server itself is hosted at dzone.com now. they have a massive infrastructure to support the server and its up a lot.
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