Stop Forum Spam

[effex]

I installed both this mod and the ReCaptcha this week as spam has been a terrible problem for my forum over the last month. Both seem to be working fine together. I ran several tests and all seems to be going good...

Now, my question is, how often does this database draw false positives? I guess my concern is that legitimate users may have trouble registering. Do you think my concern is warranted and is there any way to know if people are being blocking unjustly?

Thanks for the great mod! Keep up the good work!

[olex]

Ukrainian translation:

[ITA003]

Thanks!!!

[PLAYBOY]

Turkish Translation added

[mistercheah]

I am running 1.1.11 and trying to install this mod. I keep getting this message "The package you tried to upload either is not a valid package or has become corrupted." I re-downloaded and still the error occurs. Any help is much appreciated.   

[ITA003]

I just try to download the package and install it to my SMF forum and works fine.


Try to download again the file and open it, you can see the file content??

[Storman™]

Now, my question is, how often does this database draw false positives? I guess my concern is that legitimate users may have trouble registering. Do you think my concern is warranted and is there any way to know if people are being blocking unjustly?

I find that some AOL users get blocked by way of their IP address.

They are few and far between though and overall this is probably the best mod I use as spammers are a big problems.

[mistercheah]

I just try to download the package and install it to my SMF forum and works fine.


Try to download again the file and open it, you can see the file content??

I downloaded a couple of times, checked it by opening it but still cannot install.

[ITA003]

If you open the downloaded file with a program like 7-zip (or similar), do you see the content?

[PLAYBOY]

What messega the spammers see when they are detected by this mod? Can we customize that message...

i just wanna flip off at them

[ITA003]

The message is:


The user %s with Email %s (IP %s) is a Spam, please contact forum administrator.


You can modify the line 7 in file SFS.english.php

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$txt['sfs_spam_detected'] = 'The user %s with Email %s (IP %s) is a Spam, please contact forum administrator.';


The %s are mandatary and are the spammer's Username, Email and IP

[PLAYBOY]

Maybe a stupid question but consider me a n00b
What is %s?

[mistercheah]

If you open the downloaded file with a program like 7-zip (or similar), do you see the content?

Yes. I could see the files. I even extracted them and it worked fine. 

Just to check that the SMF package manager is working, I downloaded another mod and I uploaded it. It worked fine. Then I went back to Stop Forum Spam mod. The problem still persist.

[eyo]

this mod bans waaaay too many ips that can actually have legit users.

[PLAYBOY]

Are you sure about that? How do you know it bans legit users?

[ITA003]

Maybe a stupid question but consider me a n00b
What is %s?

The %s is a placeholder, and when a spammer is detected, the three %s present in the string will be replace with the Username, Email and the IP Address.


Es. The user randellbowman with Email [/size][email protected] (IP [/size]91.xxx.xxx.xxx) is a Spam, please contact forum administrator.


Bye

[ITA003]

If you open the downloaded file with a program like 7-zip (or similar), do you see the content?

Yes. I could see the files. I even extracted them and it worked fine. 

Just to check that the SMF package manager is working, I downloaded another mod and I uploaded it. It worked fine. Then I went back to Stop Forum Spam mod. The problem still persist.

I will send you a Private Message.

[PLAYBOY]

Does this mod Bans? or just not letting them register the forum? I mean they can still see the forum and the web site right?

[ITA003]

This mod block the spammer to register.

[Squash]

Every time I try to upload it to my admin panel I get an error saying it's the wrong format. I'd like to try it but I have no way to get it to upload based on your compression format