Stop Spammer

[kitz]

My issue with the SFS mod on the SMF forum continues. It is unable to connect to the SFS API successfully to check the members.

I have discussed more about it earlier in the post here:

http://www.simplemachines.org/community/index.php?topic=283309.msg3525030#msg3525030

I also noticed that another member, kitz, is facing a similar issue with the Mod as well in this post:

http://www.simplemachines.org/community/index.php?topic=283309.msg3600511#msg3600511

Neon Flash, whats the situation now with you?   Mine has been ok for the past few weeks and Ive not noticed any problems.   Whatever it was causing the issue (I suspect it was a problem at SFS) seems to have gone away for me :touch wood:

[kitz]

I don't know if it's this mod or Stop Forum Spam that produces thesee "errors" but assuming it's this mod. I don't really care to know that these "errors" happen.

Ive been running Stop Spammer for about 5 years, never seen one of those errors that I can recall.   I dont run the other SFS mod as IMHO they duplicate each other.

[Sea Mac]

This MOD appears to be incompatible with SMF 2.0.6
It wiped out my forum during install - apparently corrupting my "Posts template" beyond repairing.

And now I can't even restore it with an "Upgrade" package ...

at least MOD httpBL was working before my forum got wiped out by MOD Stop Spammer

[busterone]

This mod does not touch post.template.php in the /Themes/default folder nor post.php in /Sources
There must be something else gone wrong in your forum. 

It only edits  ./Sources/ManageRegistration.php, ./Sources/ManageMembers.php, ./Sources/Register.php, ./Sources/Subs.php, /Sources/Subs-Members.php, ./Sources/Profile.php, ./Themes/default/languages/Modifications.english.php and adds  StopSpammer.php to ./Sources

[Sea Mac]

It was the second MOD I reinstalled After a Upgrade to 2.0.6
MOD httpBL was the first reinstall - during the Install of Stop Spammer everything froze up and went white: and nothing I could do could restore it short of a clean 2.0.6 and a repair_settings.php run ...

It will probably be fine on this clean install of 2.0.6 though ...

[kitz]

Im running both StopSpammer and MOD httpBL on 2.0.6.   They were both already installed though before I upgraded to 2.0.6

[Kindred]

1- there is no way that this mod could "wipe out" your forum. period.
2- this mod runs just fine on 2.0.6. I have it installed on 5 different sites running 2.0.6
3- Why did you have to reinstall anyway?  The 2.0.6 update patch would have updated your 2.0.5 installation just like a mod, with no pain.

[Gryzor]

I found the fix for the connecting to the database issue on the stopforumspam forum.

http://www.stopforumspam.com/forum/viewtopic.php?id=5521

You will need to edit your Stop Spammer.php file

Find

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//$remoteXML = 'http://www.stopforumspam.com/api?' . ('127.0.0.1' != $check_ip ? "ip={$check_ip}&" : '') . 'username=' . urlencode($check_name) . '&email=' . $check_mail;
$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) : '');

Change the API url to this

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//$remoteXML = 'http://us.stopforumspam.org/api?' . ('127.0.0.1' != $check_ip ? "ip={$check_ip}&" : '') . 'username=' . urlencode($check_name) . '&email=' . $check_mail;
$remoteXML = 'http://us.stopforumspam.org/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) : '');

Oh, thanks man, thanks so much for sharing this

[imrich]

After a couple of years of not having any spam, my forum just recently started getting attacked, so I installed this mod. Right away it started working, thanks!

However, I'm having one problem with it on my forum. I'm using SMF 2.0.6.  After installing this mod, I no longer see the options to be able to set my registration anti-spam questions, nor the level of Captcha.

I'm wondering why, as the mod seemed to install without any errors and otherwise seems to be working. I'm able to set all the options for this mod in the admin registration settings page.

Any idea where my other settings went?

Please be gentle with me if this is a known issue, I admit that I haven't yet searched all 89 pages of this thread yet.

[Arantor]

The mod did fix a bug in the base SMF with the anti spam questions but nothing that should have caused the issue you're seeing.

When you say 'you're unable to set the options', what exactly do you mean? The page is blank? Settings you put in don't get saved?

[lurkalot]

I'm wondering why, as the mod seemed to install without any errors and otherwise seems to be working. I'm able to set all the options for this mod in the admin registration settings page.

Any idea where my other settings went?

So they have disappeared from,  Admin > Configuration > Security and Moderation > Anti Spam ?

[imrich]

What I meant is that the page didn't display completely, but . . .

This is strange... they are back again!  But I'm now checking via a different browser on a different computer. I can't imagine what would have caused this.

Although I wouldn't expect this to make a difference, please disregard this report until I get some time to do some more testing and can get back to my original computer in my office.

Thanks for your quick response to my questions, this is yet another reason why SMF is so nice to use! Great support!! 

[DarkAngel612]

What I meant is that the page didn't display completely, but . . .

This is strange... they are back again!  But I'm now checking via a different browser on a different computer. I can't imagine what would have caused this.

Although I wouldn't expect this to make a difference, please disregard this report until I get some time to do some more testing and can get back to my original computer in my office.

Thanks for your quick response to my questions, this is yet another reason why SMF is so nice to use! Great support!! 

if not theme specific it might just be the browser taking its time to recache the pages....mine has been doing that a lot and it really plays havoc when I edit a file and go to browser , refresh page, then may 3 more and even deleting cache and restarting browser and STILL it looks the same. Then a few hours later or the next day it looks right.

[Candice]

This is what I'd recommend to you who want spam out of your forum!

[imrich]

What I meant is that the page didn't display completely, but . . .

This is strange... they are back again!  But I'm now checking via a different browser on a different computer. I can't imagine what would have caused this.

Although I wouldn't expect this to make a difference, please disregard this report until I get some time to do some more testing and can get back to my original computer in my office.

Thanks for your quick response to my questions, this is yet another reason why SMF is so nice to use! Great support!! 

if not theme specific it might just be the browser taking its time to recache the pages....mine has been doing that a lot and it really plays havoc when I edit a file and go to browser , refresh page, then may 3 more and even deleting cache and restarting browser and STILL it looks the same. Then a few hours later or the next day it looks right.

I'm back on my original PC using the original browser. All seems to be working ok now. So perhaps it was some sort of caching issue. I'm just surprised as I've never run into this before. It's not like this is the first time I've used SMF or installed a mod.  Next time I'll try to be more patient.

Sorry again for the false alarm.

[DarkAngel612]

I'm back on my original PC using the original browser. All seems to be working ok now. So perhaps it was some sort of caching issue. I'm just surprised as I've never run into this before. It's not like this is the first time I've used SMF or installed a mod.  Next time I'll try to be more patient.

Sorry again for the false alarm.


I don't think an apology is need, one never knows when it is a false alarm or not and alerting others is good for just in case a bug snuck in and we need to find the can of Raid...LOL

I have had these cache problems years ago but lately with the latest updates to Firefox it got worse so much that I could post a reply and it would spin until doomsday then if I stop open in new window, there is the post....so along with other problems I encountered and slowness I started with SeaMOnkey (really close relative to netscape and FF)

It might be the weather in your area??? I know my ISP said it might have to do with mine too.

Thanks for posting back about it behaving for now.

[SeaChaser]

I have been using this spam blocker for a while and it works very well. One area I would like some help with is when deleting spammer accounts. After I ban them using their username and email address, I generally delete their accounts. When I do that, many times they come back and try to join again using the same user name. Since their previous account was deleted, the user name block is also deleted leaving just a block on the email. If they come back in with a new email address using the old username, I have to block them again. Is there a way to delete their accounts but leave their username on the ban list?

TIA,
-SC

[Arantor]

No there isn't a way to do that.

You could just leave the account in place, though... if they're banned, they're not able to use it.

[PopUpSteve]

Well, as I posted previously, I ban IP ranges in areas that would have no business viewing my forum. Here are 48 of 595 entries (these 48 have 1,000 hits or more) that I have in my ban list. Maybe this will help someone get a head start on blocking some spammers. If anyone wants a deeper list, just let me know. There are another 146 entries that have 100 to 999 hits.

Banned entity	Hits
IP: 180.*.*.*	135641
IP: 60.166-175.*.*	44207
IP: 123.112-127.*.*	18744
IP: 27.152-159.*.*	18116
IP: 110.80-87.*.*	8676
IP: 117.24-31.*.*	8443
IP: 220.181.*.*	8364
IP: 91.236.74-75.*	6884
IP: 120.40-43.*.*	6306
IP: 91.207.4-9.*	6303
IP: 46.17.96-99.*	6189
IP: 175.44.0-31.*	5829
IP: 46.118-119.*.*	4984
IP: 121.204-207.*.*	4977
IP: 120.32-39.*.*	4478
IP: 222.76-79.*.*	4365
IP: 220.160-162.*.*	3775
IP: 88.160-191.*.*	3580
IP: 198.2.192-255.*	3384
IP: 178.137.128-255.*	3276
IP: 193.105.210.*	3173
IP: 91.237.249.*	3051
IP: 188.143.232-234.*	2863
IP: 222.184-191.*.*	2686
IP: 91.201.64-67.*	2542
IP: 112.111.176-191.*	2531
IP: 111.72-79.*.*	2521
IP: 178.137.0-127.*	2458
IP: 95.24-30.*.*	2357
IP: 178.151.17.*	2317
IP: 59.56-61.*.*	2266
IP: 110.88-91.*.*	2245
IP: 142.4.96-127.*	2218
IP: 192.74.224-255.*	2121
IP: 221.10.*.*	2080
IP: 112.100-103.*.*	2021
IP: 61.135.*.*	1820
IP: 119.63.192-199.*	1736
IP: 195.162.68-69.*	1708
IP: 175.42.80-95.*	1595
IP: 91.224.246-247.*	1541
IP: 218.66.*.*	1530
IP: 218.90-94.*.*	1380
IP: 58.48-55.*.*	1374
IP: 218.6.0-127.*	1191
IP: 175.42.0-63.*	1073
IP: 91.210.104-107.*	1055
IP: 112.111.160-175.*	1003

[EnglishRose]

I installed this mod but now my post form has a very strange icon (or code that covers an icon) - has anyone had a similar problem or know what it is?