Project Honey Pot MOD - Identify spammers and the spambots

Started by eryde, May 31, 2009, 04:53:00 AM

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eryde

Link to Mod

Project Honey Pot is the first and only distributed system for identifying spammers and the spambots they use to scrape addresses from your website. Using the Project Honey Pot system you can install addresses that are custom-tagged to the time and IP address of a visitor to your site. If one of these addresses begins receiving email we not only can tell that the messages are spam, but also the exact moment when the address was harvested and the IP address that gathered it.

http://www.projecthoneypot.org/about_us.php [nofollow]

We collate, process, and share the data generated by your site with you. We also work with law enforcement authorities to track down and prosecute spammers. Harvesting email addresses from websites is illegal under several anti-spam laws, and the data resulting from Project Honey Pot is critical for finding those breaking the law.

Additionally, we will periodically collate the email messages we receive and share the resulting corpus with anti-spam developers and researchers. The data participants in Project Honey Pot will help to build the next generation of anti-spam software.

Copyright (c) 2009 by Eryde Networks. All rights reserved. Redistribution prohibited except at SimpleMachines.org


eryde



Sorry I have not tested this mod on v2.0 as I do not have an install of it at the moment.  I do plan to do this and will update the mod when I ahve done so.

Cheers Eric

eryde

Hi All,

I have just upgraded this mod to support version 2.0 RC1-1.  This one file will handle both 1.1.9 and 2.0 RC1-1

Cheers Eric




=<|Skary|>=

i'm confused. how can i review the info that this collects? I checked the website and saw their script generator and saw that you need to register your site and install the honeypot script for it to work. what is this mod actually doing? I contacted project honey pot and they were not familiar with this particular mod at all.

eryde

Once you installed this mod simply click on a users IP address from any of the memeber lists and you will see the link in the section "Look up IP on a regional whois-server " titled "Project Honey Pot (all regions)"  clicking on this link will diplay a page from the Honey Pot website, this is where the details of what Honey pot has tracked for this IP address.  This mod is not provided by Honey Pot.

funaho

i understand the concept of a honey pot.

is it adding a honey pot to my forums, or are all the users who install share a honey pot on your server?

also, were are the options for this? does it just automatically work, or is it for ip lookups?

eryde


Hi,

All this mod does is to pass the IP address from the profile to the Honey Pot Website for a look up nothing else. THere is not configuration just install an use.

Cheers Eric

Sudhakar Arjunan

Excellent Mod. Will install and write my comment here.
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erlend_sh

Question: All this mod will do for me is identify spammers, but not process them in any way? Does it at least 'set them up' so I can 'knock'em down' in an e-mail/Wordpress spamlist kind of way?

eryde


Hi,

No it dose nothing more than provide a lookup to the Hoeny Pot website only.  You will have to take actions like blocking in your application manually.

Cheers Eric


Aoife

love the mod! i registered on the Project HoneyPot site and got the code for a quicklink. do you know which SMF file I'd put the link in? the suggestion from the Project HoneyPot site was in the footer.... (i'm a noob when it comes to php and such).

thank you again for the mod!

2babies=tired

Hi I have had to disable project honeypot on my forum until I work out how to whitelist a members IP!!

They aren't a spammer, but their IP is being flagged as a medium risk and the memebr is getting the warning.php file everytime they logon! This is obviously annoying for them!

How do I add their IP to a whiltelist on the site??

Thanks

eryde

Hi,

This mod only provides the link to look-up the ip address from the Honey Pot website and nothing more.  The functionality you are describing has nothing to do with this mod, sorry.

Cheers Eric

2babies=tired

Thanks Eric, that's disappointing then, as I'll have to stop using the mod :( If I can't stop the warning.php file from showing to a member everytime they logon, then it's a nuisance. I've been on the project honeypot forum and the same question asked was never replied to 5 months ago, so no point asking there.

Thanks again for letting me know it's not something that can be configured.

kingjeste

Works Great.Was using this site.copy/paste..Then i found this mod.. Thanks..

Aoife

Just upgraded to 2.0 and can't install this mod using emulation. I'll have to try manual edits.

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