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BotScout "BotBuster" for SMF 1.x and 2.0 Beta 4

Started by MrMike, February 27, 2009, 10:36:32 AM

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landyvlad

"Put as much effort into your question as you'd expect someone to give in an answer"

Please do not PM, IM or Email me with questions on astrophysics or theology.  You will get better and faster responses by asking homeless people in the street. Thank you.

Be the person your dog thinks you are.

landyvlad

Does anyone know if this will work with 2.1.x?
Or if it's even required with that?
"Put as much effort into your question as you'd expect someone to give in an answer"

Please do not PM, IM or Email me with questions on astrophysics or theology.  You will get better and faster responses by asking homeless people in the street. Thank you.

Be the person your dog thinks you are.

Dave J


Kindred

Since the author has not been active in 9 months, probably not...
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Украинi

Please do not PM, IM or Email me with support questions.  You will get better and faster responses in the support boards.  Thank you.

"Loki is not evil, although he is certainly not a force for good. Loki is... complicated."

Dave J

It actually installs on 2.1.4 Kindred, but I'm not sure if it will actually work or not...time will tell

JRMBelgium

I just registered an acccount with "[email protected]" wich should get blocked.
This means that the mod no longer works.  :-\

Doug Heffernan

Quote from: Jelle Mees on July 04, 2024, 03:47:20 PMI just registered an acccount with "[email protected]" wich should get blocked.
This means that the mod no longer works.  :-\

It works very well, but the code needs a bit of update to work properly. I have updated this for a client of mine a while ago and it has a stopping rate of 99.99% of all the bots logged in at the botscout database.

MrMike

The mod still works, we're waiting for the next update (2.15). 

(If it doesn't work with 2.15 we'll update it, but as far as I know it is working at this time with 2.14.) 

FWIW, life intervened :-[ and I haven't been able to do any real work on it for a while. 

At the same time, it didn't really seem to need any updates as far as I'm aware (??). If I'm wrong please let me know. 

The BotScout site itself is (and has) been running continuously, serving tens of thousands of requests daily. BotScout currently keeps a running, constantly updated list of just over 10M bots, and to date it's served almost a billion API calls. :) 

My apologies in advance for responding to this old post, but like I said, things happened, some good, some not-so-good. It is what it is till it ain't, lol.

Sometimes priorities shift and you've got to pivot and attend to whatever it is that needs doing at the moment (family, work, etc). 

And...sometimes that "moment" lasts for years, lol. :) Let me know if ya want details. ;)


In any case, I'm genuinely grateful for all the work the SMF developers and mod-makers have done here over the years and I look forward to the new release. 

I hope that all of you and yours are well and that life is going easy on you.  :D


Cheers

MrMike

Quote from: Jelle Mees on July 04, 2024, 03:47:20 PMI just registered an acccount with "[email protected]" wich should get blocked.
This means that the mod no longer works.  :-\

It still works. :) 

BotScout keeps a rolling list of ~10M of the last caught signatures, so eventually signatures roll off the list. 

It doesn't keep every caught bot forever, just until the next 10M signatures roll through. If a signature keeps getting 'caught', it'll stay in the DB until it's no longer caught for 10M new signatures. 

Depending on the traffic, this could take a couple of weeks or a couple of months, or longer if it keeps appearing and getting caught. In theory a signature could stay in the list forever, but it would have to keep appearing somewhat regularly so it didn't roll off as it was pushed out by newer signatures. 

I hope that makes sense. 

Doug Heffernan

Quote from: MrMike on January 26, 2025, 11:53:28 AMIt still works. :) 

I agree. It works very well. It only needs a bit of update to work properly on a 2.1.x version. As I mentioned previously above, I have updated this for a client of mine a while ago and it has a stopping rate of 99.99% of all the bots logged in at the botscout database.

Well done @MrMike.

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