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.

[koneil]

Originally Posted by Decode

I've come across an issue since installing this. This addon has blocked quite a few legit registrations based on emails but is also still allowing numerous spammers to get through. I have multi-checked the settings and looked at the stats page and it does show a ton of attempts being blocked overall.

Is this issue occurring for anyone else?

The stats page doesn't show who is block, just gives a overview of what's happened in the last 24 hours. It will show how many times a email, IP has tried to register. Also showing where the users are coming from.

I've only heard of 4 or 5 forums complaining about blocking legit users and that's out of 1,000's of forums that are using it. Most of them are because they are using disposable email addresses or they are using a proxy trying to register.

If you are having issue of people registering, please send me the information emails and ip's and I will look to why they were blocked, if they are in our database there must be a reason.

[Nelson58]

Originally Posted by Decode

I've come across an issue since installing this. This addon has blocked quite a few legit registrations based on emails but is also still allowing numerous spammers to get through. I have multi-checked the settings and looked at the stats page and it does show a ton of attempts being blocked overall.

Is this issue occurring for anyone else?

I've blocked Russia and China and a few are still getting through, but by and large, it works nicely.

[lapiervb]

Is there a paid version of this mod?

[koneil]

Originally Posted by Nelson58

I've blocked Russia and China and a few are still getting through, but by and large, it works nicely.

We now know why some are getting through and we are working on that issue.

[koneil]

Originally Posted by Nirjonadda

Get This Error when Unregistered / Not Logged In User Use Quick Reply ,Please can you check and give me a fix update?

Fatal error: Call to undefined function unapprove_post() in /home/user/public_html/includes/functions_newpost.php(681) : eval()'d code on line 123

Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_STRING in /home/user/public_html/includes/class_core.php(4606) : eval()'d code on line 747

@Nirjonadda

I tried it on 3.7.2 and up and could not get an error, everything worked fine for me. Do you have any other plugins that might be conflicting?

[Easy5s.net]

edit .

[koneil]

FYI:

If a few spammers are getting through, its because our server is at its load and we are in the process of upgrading to new servers. This will help us out a lot!

Thanks everyone for the support!

[Heckwork]

Only 1 came through here out of 446 tries in the last 2 weeks.
I use both Fassim and GlowHost Spam-O-Matic.

[motorhaven]

I have a question for koneil before installing this mod, and I'm a little surprised this has been asked in the year+ this mod has been available:

There have no privacy policy on your site. I have no assurances concerning what is done with the IP and email data of legit user registrations which are passed to your API. Can you clarify this both here and on your site?

[koneil]

Originally Posted by motorhaven

I have a question for koneil before installing this mod, and I'm a little surprised this has been asked in the year+ this mod has been available:

There have no privacy policy on your site. I have no assurances concerning what is done with the IP and email data of legit user registrations which are passed to your API. Can you clarify this both here and on your site?

Data is stored to determine whether or not the user is a spammer using our algorithms. After a certain number of days the data is purged. We do NOT use the data ("IP's, Email addresses") for any other use but to determine where the user is located and if the user is a spammer. If a IP or Email address has high amount of traffic, classifying it as a "spammer", we will display this information publicly or share it to others.

I will update our website with a privacy policy.

Thanks!