Stop Forum Spam

[arreferee]

Just tried to download and install this package and received the following error:

The package you tried to upload either is not a valid package or has become corrupted.

Any ideas?

[fullmetalgirl]

Since 2.0 came out my old 1.1.11 forum is being attacked rapidly...
(not only mine but 4 other forums i know aswell)

I just installed this mod but i got a question:
When i look at my whois is see a "stop forum spam" hand after all my guests.
even when a friend of mine showed up the hand appeared... but he could register.

I thought that hand would only show up at whois when the ip is found in the stop forum database?

question no. 2:
can i do a stop forum check based ONLY on ip? i do not want to check the e-mail adres aswell.

Greetings and thnx in front,

[ITA003]

@GlitchPC: I modify the description in the next version


@arreferee: Try to download it again and reinstall, let me know..


@fullmetalgirl: The hand in the whois page just send you to stopforumspam check page to know if  the IP is in the Sop Forum Spam database. The email is the main check in my Mod, so you can not disable this check.

[eric1234]

Got any plan to upgrade it to latest version 2.0 gold version?

[arreferee]

@arreferee: Try to download it again and reinstall, let me know..

I tried again from a different computer and still got the same error.

[arreferee]

@arreferee: Try to download it again and reinstall, let me know..

I tried again from a different computer and still got the same error.

I was able to download and install it to my test forum that is in 2.0.  My main forum is the one where I received the above error.  It is in 1.1.13.  Is it not working for 1.1.13?  Thanks.

[mpoloukhine]

Any chance to have this mod enhanced (or a new mod) to use the SFS database to block known spam IPs from even accessing the login page to begin with? Seeing upwards of 30 new logins a day at this point all from known spam IPs this on a forum that is pretty much unused these days. Would be nice not not even let them in the door in the first place...

[Kindred]

egads, NO!   the SFS list is not monitored or controlled in any way that I know of...   If users get flagged because their IP matches a previously reported spammer, then they get blocked?    good way to lose a large chunk of members

[mpoloukhine]

I can appreciate that concern. I just think it would be a helpful *optional* feature in many instances, and if it's optional, don't see the harm in it being there.

Mine for one, could greatly benefit. New members to my forum are limited and typically driven to the site via personal contact, not through random discovery of the forum on the 'net (with whom I typically run a short screening conversation first anyway.) Dealing with what is in the past week upwards of 30 *known* spammers on a daily basis awaiting registration confirmation is a heavy burden for a site that otherwise needs little to no moderation or maintenance on my part. I'd much rather have them all blocked automatically at the door before they even clog up the forum DB as a pending reg. (or worse manage to break in via an existing member log-in hack) with a message to "Contact the main site admin. if you feel it is in error."

For me, the chance that a real registration attempt would be thwarted is statistically 0. Would be a great optional feature IMO.

[Kindred]

oh, don't be so sure....   I recently had an instance where 5 IPs from a university were flagged in SFS...   unfortunately several of my users are from that university and they get caught by the flagged IP.

Anyway.... I suggest that you add some registration questions (standard feature in 2.0) and httpBL - after 2 weeks of SFS catching bundles, I was down to one a month.

[mpoloukhine]

oh, don't be so sure....   I recently had an instance where 5 IPs from a university were flagged in SFS...   unfortunately several of my users are from that university and they get caught by the flagged IP.

Anyway.... I suggest that you add some registration questions (standard feature in 2.0) and httpBL - after 2 weeks of SFS catching bundles, I was down to one a month.

Actually, that's what I was starting to do this AM (httBL) that got me wondering why SFSMod couldn't be doing the same thing as the httBLMod does (block at the door, not detain once in the lobby). I'm reticent to upgrade to 2.0 (time to research that all mods/themes will still work, etc.) and to get into the httBL (which I don't fully understand how to utilize, again more time to sort out). Was hoping there was a "quick" fix via this mod.

I guess I need to up to 2.0 at a minimum and see if most of my problems are bots weeded out through questions.

[sepulchre]

I'm getting the following error on install when trying to install into my 2.0 forum

[stanaca]

waiting for 2.0 compatibility

[HunterP]

waiting for 2.0 compatibility

I'm known to make personal changes to almost every package I download, so I'm not really sure why it works, but SFS works fine for me in 2.0 Gold. Maybe apply the changes manually or apply the differences in the package before you upload it?

The only problem is that the SFS website seems to be down at the moment.

[societyofrobots]

You probably already know this, but just in case I'm writing to let you know that the entire stopforumspam.com site is down.

[arreferee]

You probably already know this, but just in case I'm writing to let you know that the entire stopforumspam.com site is down.

In the meantime, you can just google the IP addresses.  The ones on Stop Forum Spam will show up there.

[kriation]

The site is currently experiencing an outage using DNS, but it is up, according to twitter (https://twitter.com/stopforumspam).
I made the following change in $sourcedir/StopSpammer.php on line 31, per the tweet:

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// Twitter status points to 217.18.71.131       
//      $remoteXML = 'http://www.stopforumspam.com/api?' . ('127.0.0.1' != $check_ip ? ($modSettings['stopspammer_check_ip'] ? 'ip=' . $check_ip . '&' : '') : '') . ($modSettings['stopspammer_check_name'] ? 'username=' . urlencode($check_name) . '&' : '') . ($modSettings['stopspammer_check_mail'] ? 'email=' . urlencode($check_mail) : '');
        $remoteXML = 'http://217.18.71.131/api?' . ('127.0.0.1' != $check_ip ? ($modSettings['stopspammer_check_ip'] ? 'ip=' . $check_ip . '&' : '') : '') . ($modSettings['stopspammer_check_name'] ? 'username=' . urlencode($check_name) . '&' : '') . ($modSettings['stopspammer_check_mail'] ? 'email=' . urlencode($check_mail) : '');


I can confirm that it is working for my SMF 1.x environment, but your mileage may vary.

[lisaf01]

Hi, I've been running this mod on my forum for a few months and it's helped a lot. However, in the last couple of weeks it just stopped working and I am getting about 30 spam registrants a day now. When I check their IPs and/or email addresses in SFS, they are listed there, but they are being allowed to go ahead and register on my forum.
I uninstalled and reinstalled the mod. Didn't help.
I checked every bit of code to ensure it was applied properly, and it is.

What's going on?

[HunterP]

Hi, I've been running this mod on my forum for a few months and it's helped a lot. However, in the last couple of weeks it just stopped working and I am getting about 30 spam registrants a day now. When I check their IPs and/or email addresses in SFS, they are listed there, but they are being allowed to go ahead and register on my forum.

When a spammer registers and you see that it is listed, what is the time that it has been added to SFS? It might be possible that this spammer has been added in the time between its registration and your visit to SFS. I've noticed this to several times. There are thousands of forums and you'll have to understand that there HAVE TO BE forums on which a spammer can register before his details can be reported to SFS. So in some cases you might be one of the (un)lucky ones...

[Mihac™]

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