[BETA] Antispam for all fields (updated: 10-01-2009:V1.3.1)

Ramon Fincken · Post by **Ramon Fincken** » Fri Jun 16, 2006 8:11 am

* integration with approve post if a word is found ( instead if instant denial )

is getting a speed up injection...

lmcboy · Post by **lmcboy** » Fri Jun 16, 2006 4:38 pm

Ramon Fincken wrote: * If a word is found an error message is shown and the information will NOT be processed

Wouldn't it be more useful to just silently reject the registration request, rather than telling the spammer that they're being rejected (thus giving them a chance to try again)? Or am I missing something?

In any case, thanks for the mod, I've installed it and will try it out.

Ramon Fincken · Post by **Ramon Fincken** » Fri Jun 16, 2006 4:48 pm

lmcboy wrote:
Ramon Fincken wrote: * If a word is found an error message is shown and the information will NOT be processed

Wouldn't it be more useful to just silently reject the registration request, rather than telling the spammer that they're being rejected (thus giving them a chance to try again)? Or am I missing something?

In any case, thanks for the mod, I've installed it and will try it out.

From the logs I have at my site, spammers sometimes try a second time with a complete different username, so far all attempts are 'caught' because they use spamwords ..

+

The standard build in feature prevents lots of registration requests..

Ramon

lmcboy · Post by **lmcboy** » Fri Jun 16, 2006 4:59 pm

Okay, I'll give it a shot as-is. I wonder if there's an easy way to ban the IP when a spam registration is detected.

BTW, the wordlist at http://www.phpbbinstallers.com/bad_words.php may be too restrictive! I tried to post to my board right after installing those words, and my post got rejected. I couldn't figure out what word it was complaining about. I disabled the parts of your mod that deal with posts as a workaround.

If you're interested, here is the rejected post, posted after I disabled the word filters.

Ramon Fincken · Post by **Ramon Fincken** » Fri Jun 16, 2006 5:01 pm

Hello lmcboy,

you can easily delete the words you don't like from the admin control panel >> general admin >> Word Censors

another option is to create your own list from scratch based on the spambots urls and post you have had in the past ... and analyse of the new registered ones ..

Rfn

squid808 · Post by **squid808** » Fri Jun 16, 2006 7:52 pm

Hey looks great, but I'm confused a bit... does this only block those words for registration, or on the board completely? AKA, if 'poker' is blocked, and I write a post about a game of poker, will that work? Or did I just drink too much last night such that I'm over complicating things?

Ramon Fincken · Post by **Ramon Fincken** » Fri Jun 16, 2006 7:58 pm

Current fields that are checked:

username, email, website
ICQ, AIM, YAHOO, occupation, interests, signature

subject of a post/reply
contents of a post/reply

If you want to remove a check delete a line like:

Code: Select all

	validate_spam($icq);

Ramon

Ramon Fincken · Post by **Ramon Fincken** » Fri Jun 23, 2006 9:04 pm

** upgrade 1.1.2 -> 1.1.3 23032006
* Better word recognition algoritm
* Possibility to sent mail to site admin with ALL the post vars, incl link to profile and IP + proxy forwarded IP
* Possibility to create a usergroup. The 'bypass group'-members have the check option set to OFF so they can post without restrictions.

Ramon Fincken · Post by **Ramon Fincken** » Fri Jun 23, 2006 9:08 pm

Thanks to Lurttinen, MarkTheDaemon and Dicky for testing this script !

Lord Raiden · Post by **Lord Raiden** » Sat Jun 24, 2006 12:42 am

How's this coming? Is it safe for a production environment yet, or we still in the beta stage?

Ramon Fincken · Post by **Ramon Fincken** » Sat Jun 24, 2006 6:17 am

Hi Lord Raiden,

it is in beta because it has not been submitted to the MOD-database yet.
I want to add the approve post feature before doing so.

This 1.1.3 version has been intensively tested by me, Lurttinen, MarkTheDaemon, Dicky and boards with over 1000 visits a day.
All 'bugs' were solved during the pre-1.1.3 stage.

And installing / uninstalling will not take a long period of time..

If you have any more questions don't hasitate to ask !

Ramon

Lord Raiden · Post by **Lord Raiden** » Sun Jun 25, 2006 1:30 am

Ok, cool. Let me know when you feel it's stable enough to use in a production environment as I'd like to start using it as soon as possible, even if it is still beta.

Ramon Fincken · Post by **Ramon Fincken** » Sun Jun 25, 2006 9:58 am

go ahead !

The current version has been tested for about a month at my board

Rfn

Stephen W. Thomas · Post by **Stephen W. Thomas** » Wed Jun 28, 2006 1:04 am

I got everything installed using 1.13 and it seems to work great!

Except I had to comment out this line:
if(group_check($userdata['user_id'],$group_id)) return;

I have the group check set to -1 and I was getting a Fatel PHP Error saying my group_check function is not defined?

Did I miss something in the installation?

Thanks.

Ramon Fincken · Post by **Ramon Fincken** » Wed Jun 28, 2006 4:37 am

Hi Stephen W. Thomas,

I just re-tested the -1 value and appeared to work fine.
If you can re-add it and sent me a screenshot + the 2 files you used I can check the error.

You can also enter 0 or any other positive value of a group that doensn't exist. ( but keep the value below the value of the latest created group ! )

Ramon

ps:

check the next page, a fix is available to add the function you were missing