Stop Spambot Registration

fusecon · Post by **fusecon** » Wed Sep 27, 2006 4:15 am

I tried this mod and either something is missing or it is conflicting with my huminizer and/or other spambot mods.

I ended up changing the mod a bit (moving your messages to the L_ area in the usercp file) and then discovered the error in the profile_add_body.tpl page:


<tr bgcolor="#FF0000">
<td colspan="2">
{SPAMBOT_MESSAGE} 
{SPAMBOT_MESSAGE_EXPLAIN}
</td>
</tr>


Eventually I just re copy and pasted it and got it to work. Strange. There must have been a bad character in there or something.

-dan

senzacionale · Post by **senzacionale** » Thu Sep 28, 2006 12:12 pm

is it possible to ban this spam and is it posible that all mods will get email?

joenorris · Post by **joenorris** » Fri Sep 29, 2006 4:29 pm

6 attempts this week, all rejected.
No more advertising cheap meds on my site!

I'm quite happy with this mod.

Oosterberg · Post by **Oosterberg** » Tue Oct 03, 2006 7:00 am

Is it possible to combine this mod with this one : http://www.phpbb.com/phpBB/viewtopic.php?t=375262

?

fusecon · Post by **fusecon** » Tue Oct 03, 2006 3:04 pm

I have about 3-4 mods installed. After I installed this one (1 week ago) I've only gotten 1 sign up which I'm not sure is real or not. Before I was getting 3-4 a day.

So, I have this one, humanizer (not very useful), a SPAMBot one and a generic 2 line one that should stop bots from skipping a sign on page.

Perhaps, this is the only mod you need. I'd give it the thumbs up. I took out the e-mail feature...

-dan

reenmachine · Post by **reenmachine** » Tue Oct 03, 2006 9:39 pm

This is my first mod! Installation was a snap and the instructions are great.

I get 6-10 spambot registrations every day, so I will very shortly know if this is working for me or not. I'll post with the results!

reenmachine · Post by **reenmachine** » Wed Oct 04, 2006 4:40 am

Thwarted my first one! Awesome!

matt1206 · Post by **matt1206** » Wed Oct 04, 2006 5:29 am

Just installed the mod eith EasyMod, went on fine. Tested by trying to sign up and adding a url to profile information.....registration not gone through

Very good mod

Martian · Post by **Martian** » Wed Oct 04, 2006 3:00 pm

Thanks for the compliments, I am glad this MOD is being useful!

senzacionale wrote: is it possible to ban this spam and is it posible that all mods will get email?

I don't know how to send e-mails to all the moderators with this MOD.

About auto-banning the IP of the spammers: this is not a good idea. If a human (or a curious forum member) accidentally enters Profile Information, then (s)he would be banned and not get a second chance to register. There is also the risk of banning shared IP addresses.

Oosterberg wrote: Is it possible to combine this mod with this one : http://www.phpbb.com/phpBB/viewtopic.php?t=375262

No, you can't combine it with the MOD Easy BotStopper or similar MODs. Like I said in a previous message, these MODs remove certain fields during registration. When spambots provide information for these fields, the registration will fail. In contrary, this MOD does NOT hide Profile Information fields. See here for more explanation.

layke · Post by **layke** » Wed Oct 04, 2006 4:36 pm

Excellent Mod.

Not one spammer since installed, were 6 per day signing up

Nice work and thanks a lot.

reenmachine · Post by **reenmachine** » Wed Oct 04, 2006 5:46 pm

What's funny is that I'm not even getting any attempts now...either it's a random lull or they can sniff it out and have just decided to skip it. Either way I'm happy!

ITwizard · Post by **ITwizard** » Thu Oct 05, 2006 1:40 am

matt1206 wrote: Just installed the mod eith EasyMod, went on fine. Tested by trying to sign up and adding a url to profile information.....registration not gone through

Very good mod

I have a question.. how did you do this with Easy Mod? I thought you have to go through and do it all manually. If it can be done with the Easy Mod then it would make things so much easier for me. Right now I'm showing an error and not quite sure if it's an easy fix or if I should just go through and redo it all over again.

Parse error: syntax error, unexpected '}' in /home/ravv22/public_html/msgforum/includes/usercp_register.php on line 795

Could I cut and paste something in order for someone to help me see what may be wrong?

ITwizard · Post by **ITwizard** » Thu Oct 05, 2006 2:19 am

ITwizard wrote: I have a question.. how did you do this with Easy Mod?

I got it.. never mind *shakes head* this is a first for me using this Easy Mod, something that I still have to get used to.

Haven't had anyone try to get into the bb yet to see if it works or not but will find out soon enough I suppose.

breadtop · Post by **breadtop** » Thu Oct 05, 2006 2:24 pm

Don't know if I've done this right, couldn't find

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 $template->assign_block_vars('switch_edit_profile', array());
	}

only the

$template->assign_block_vars('switch_edit_profile', array());

without the closing curly brace

so I put the code in like this:

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 $template->assign_block_vars('switch_edit_profile', array());
	  
	  //----BEGIN Stop Spambot Registration MOD
	if ( $mode == 'register' )
	{
		$template->assign_block_vars('switch_register', array());
		$template->assign_vars(array(
			'SPAMBOT_MESSAGE' => $lang['Spambot_message'],
			'SPAMBOT_MESSAGE_EXPLAIN' => $lang['Spambot_message_explain'])
		);
	}
//----END Stop Spambot Registration MOD
	  
      if ($userdata['user_posts'] >= $cut_off) 
      { 
      $template->assign_block_vars('switch_edit_website', array()); 
      }

Have I changed the code correctly? What should I see if I attempt a non-bot registration, and what's the difference to look for (sorry if I'm being a bit dumb here).

Dan

Martian · Post by **Martian** » Thu Oct 05, 2006 3:16 pm

breadtop wrote: so I put the code in like this:

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 $template->assign_block_vars('switch_edit_profile', array());
	  
	  //----BEGIN Stop Spambot Registration MOD
	if ( $mode == 'register' )
	{
		$template->assign_block_vars('switch_register', array());
		$template->assign_vars(array(
			'SPAMBOT_MESSAGE' => $lang['Spambot_message'],
			'SPAMBOT_MESSAGE_EXPLAIN' => $lang['Spambot_message_explain'])
		);
	}
//----END Stop Spambot Registration MOD
	  
      if ($userdata['user_posts'] >= $cut_off) 
      { 
      $template->assign_block_vars('switch_edit_website', array()); 
      }

The last few lines look like code from another MOD. Is this from "[BETA] Anti-spam bots registration"?

Have I changed the code correctly?

I don't know if these MODs won't interfere, but you should at least put the code for the MOD Stop Spambot Registration AFTER:

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if ( $mode == 'editprofile' ) 
   { 
      $template->assign_block_vars('switch_edit_profile', array()); 
      if ($userdata['user_posts'] >= $cut_off) 
      { 
      $template->assign_block_vars('switch_edit_website', array()); 
      } 
   }

What should I see if I attempt a non-bot registration, and what's the difference to look for (sorry if I'm being a bit dumb here).

On the registration page you will see a spambot warning message. When Profile Information is entered, the registration will fail and an e-mail notification will be send to the admin. You can check this by registering and entering profile information.

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