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Turn on error reporting.

Quick question:
Does every user registering on my forum get logged?

I saw in the log: Passed StopForumSpam checks. Sent to vBulletin Registration System.
Means he was no spammer and good for registration?

Yes and Yes

Thank you for the quick reply

Hello, is there a version of this hack that will run on v3.8.4? We're getting constant assaults by spambots for medical and dental sites that it's unbearable. Since I started typing this less than a minute ago, one already registered on my site.

Sorry if this question has been asked and answered several times already (I'm sure it has), but there's over 150 pages of posts to sift through. Thanks!

Yes: [GlowHost] Spam-O-Matic for vB 3.8 (StopForumSpam, Akismet, Auto-Moderation and more), it was listed in the similar mod section . . .

Please update for vbb 5, thanks you!

The developer, has said in his other mods, they will not update the mods to vB5 till it stabilizes, and then it is still iffy.

Thanks a lot.

it is usefull

Did you ever get an answer to this? One of my mods accidentally fed a long time member with a lot of posts to spam-o-matic. I would have to guess that since it was weeks ago there is no way to un-do this. If I'm hosed is there at least a way I can remove the member from the database to prevent him from having issues in the future?

In this list of words to be moderated, will it work with combinations of words. There are some single words I don't want it to trigger on but in combination with another word it would make sense to stop it.

Someone please tell them that there site has been down for nearly 18 hours as of this post.

So, once I install and activate this, I am suppose to DISABLE SCANNING vbulletin's regular "Spam Management" under control panel? ACP / Settings / Options / Spam Management

No keep that running

I'd love to be able to see a more detailed report on the blocked registrations and banned users. Something that tells me where they came from (IP), when they were blocked, etc. It would provide any actionable data, but it would be nice to have an idea what days/times are being hit the hardest.

I'd love this mod to be able to remove blog posts from spammers. It does a great job of removing everything else.

But what about what is posted at beginning of thread?

"Q. Should I use vBulletin 4's built in Spam Management system?
A. You can do whatever you like, but we recommend disabling it. If you have this enabled and have problems, we won't be able to support you. Spam-O-Matic was built to run standalone from any other Spam prevention modules."

I have kept mine on and every forum I have fixed and no problems. If you need help with the setting of this or this plugin I can help

hi

i have install the app , and now nobody can registered. i become also e error message in my error.log when i turn off the app , the people can registered .

have anybody a idea what can i do

greets

If you want help you need to post the error

here is the error message

First make sure all files from this plugin are uploaded into the correct folders if you are still getting an error then disable all plugins and enable each one and check for errors until you find the one causing you the problem

hi

i disable the som plugin , and the registration is going …

i will check that the files are correctly in the folders .

thx for support

update

the files are correct. all files from the upload folder are correct.

What vb version are you using

in the moment the 4.2.2

Have you put in place all fixes for 4.2.2? If you want me to have a closer look at it if you are still having problems pm me

yes i have from the vb 4.22 all fixed installed.

since the new version from som , my autom. birthday thread isn't going

greetz lemmi

Som? Autom? Birthday thread are these something custom

since I installed their new version of the app, my automatic contribution creator for birthdays no longer works. I must release as a moderator contributing mostly.
Although I have taken the user of the spam filter

I installed this a while ago but disabled it because its not allowing my members to post some thing pops up saying Leave This Page or Stay On This Page, as a test I put the usergroup that a member helping me test this product the Usergroup ID in the adminCP/Settings/Options/GlowHost - Spam-O-Matic/Spam-O-Matic: Protect Groups But it didn't work.

Really I tried and I can't even post can some one help me with this please

Ok thanks I got it all set up and members still can't post do I have to put every usergroups id in the Spam-O-Matic: Protect Groups?

Well just an update I have all the usergroups in the Spam-O-Matic: Protect Groups and now when trying to post members just get a blink white screen

Just an update

Its working now I had to update the Spam-O-Matic to the new version hopefully that is the only issue I run in to :)

But I do have one more question and thart is what about the 15000 spam bots the registered, will this system take care of all them if they try to post?

Same question :)

This is the best mod I've used to help stop spam thanks much.

now

i have check my files in ftp . all files are ok

here are the error message when anybody will registred and the spam plugin is on

Thanks .. I really love it .. sometimes one or 2 spammers do not get stopped but I used to have 20 a day now I can sleep better! Thanks guys!

I installed the plugin and it has blocked a few registrations as well as moderated a few comments.

One thing I am confused about is the easy clean function. I think I have it turned on but cant figure out how its supposed to work. I dont see any spam-o-matic specific tools in the moderation drop down menu...? Nor on the user group banning menu like I saw on one screenshot. Am I missing something or is it supposed to be 'invisible'?

Are you looking at the mod tools in were a post is? A screenshot of what you see would help

I installed this Mod, per the install instructions, and it appears to be ok other than it shows no stats in the stats area at the bottom of my forum page. ??? what have i maybe done wrong.

Need screenshot of all settings and footer stats

Disregard, instead of all that, i just registered using a proxy, registered as spammer, mad a spammy post using one f the catch phrases, and it got me :0) and posted the stats i wanted to see. Thanks for your effort. More than one way to skin a cat.

here is a screen shot of what I am looking at. Is this not the right place?

You need to go into the thread to see that option but you can use the option u see in the pic it will delete the post as spam as well

I've had this mod up and running since the start of October, and it's been fantastic: occasionally one or two spammers get through, but no big deal. I may delete seven, perhaps ten accounts a week.

In the last week and a half, though, I've just been getting completely bombarded, with dozens, sometimes fifty or more getting through in a day. The Glowhost log shows that it's still stopping a bunch of them, but I'm wondering if maybe the stopforumspam site isn't updating as fast as it should perhaps? I'm just amazed at seeing the same IP address 10, 12, 16 times having gotten through, and those were many hours apart.

I have a tiny site. It's not like I am running some mega-board where one would expect to get clobbered every day with this stuff. I'm just wondering if anyone else has been experiencing this of late, and any suggestions to help stop it, or at least slow it down.

Yea we got hit by a huge wave of spambot signups recently, glowhost spam-o-matic was pretty good up until that point.

Ended up going with the KeyCaptcha mod, http://www.vbulletin.org/forum/showthread.php?t=257294

It is getting crazy last few days!! So many registrations of spammers going through this plugin! It stop some I am sure but some not :(

Install this as well

I have this same issue now. I have VB 4.2.1 and SOM version: 2.1.2
I added my known-good groups to the protected users group...

Any advice would be appreciated. Thanks!

Dimitri

Shrug. I haven't had one since I installed this a few days ago.

The romanian translation cannot be imported. Is not a XML , its a HTML file.

User Details:
Username: jodi0155
User ID Number: 159500
User E-mail: [email protected]
User Registration IP Address: 192.168.100.119
User IP Address for Selected Post: 198.211.113.93

... this user fails to be reported to SFS

Username: ivory0155
User ID Number: 159824
User E-mail: [email protected]
User Registration IP Address: 37.220.22.242
User IP Address for Selected Post: 37.220.22.242

... this user is reported w/o issue to SFS

only difference i see with the User Registration IP address (first is local)
so question is SOM ignoring local ranges?

The sfs db wont let u add a 192 ip to there db add this plugin as well it will stop any that spam o matic lets in

The better question might be why do you have a spammer who's on your local, internal, network?

Users reported being banned immediately after signup.

After research, it is GlowHost.....

I can't tell you how much frustration this is for me....

We have probably lost tens maybe hundreds of members because of this error.

Sound like you have not set up user group permissions right and its got nothing to do with this mod

Either that or you have it set to ban/scan user names. That one should be turned off, as many people have common names with known spammers in the database. Checking the IP and EMAIL should be left on, though.

This program blocks dozens per day for us, and has never - not even once - made a mistake - on our forum.

I may be stupid... but how to I install this? I downloaded the zip uploaded all the files into the correct directories but can't find the product to install through the AdminCP. There is no readme file in the zip.

Good for you rhody.

For me it did what I described above. And it creates blank pages after sign up.

There is a readme in the zip file
Here s a screenshot how your folder should look like after unzipping.
After uploading you have to use the xml file (highlighted in blue) to install via the ACP

Thank you. Yes I was being stupid. My unzip only unzipped the upload folder...

OK may I say that this is AWESOME so far. Newbies group is a lifesaver. That should put a hitch in their giddyup.

Installed... very2 effective bloking spam, thanks.

I have a question. Last week, I installed this on the Black Sabbath forums here:

http://www.black-sabbath.com/vb

It's working quite well as you can see by looking at the numbers at the bottom of the page. However, take a look at the attached screenshot. It's some spammy posts that got through and were sent to pending. That's good.

However, to "Spam-O-Matic" them, I have to go either into thread and read the post, or I have to go to the user's profile to act on them with this mod. I'd like to be able to act on them from the thread page. You can't, because there's no Spam-O-Matic option from the thread list page.

Can that be added? If you look at my attachment, I think it would be a lot easier to tick the spammy threads, and Spam-O-Matic them together like that. Any thoughts?

You have the option to delete threads as spam on the thread page

Yes, I know THAT. But you can't do the extra bits that Spam-O-Matic does from there. THAT is what I wanted to get at.

I would of given you one that i have that already has this option but your reply seems to be a bit rude no need to put THAT in caps

I honestly didn't intend it to be rude. Don't know why I did that, to be honest. Does seem rude, I apologize for that.

Spam Firewall stops forum spam

Hi, works with vBulletin 5 ?
thanks

No it wont, as a matter of course any MODs for VB4 will not work with VB5, neither will VB2 or VB3

Had to uninstall, Wasn't letting me reply to posts and wasn't letting people register on the forum.

I experienced Filestore malicious redirect on my vBulletin with 2.0.2 version of this Mod. After Mod upgrade to 2.1.2 it is fixed.
Anyone knows why the infection happend? So it dont repeat again?
Thanks

I seriously doubt that the infection was in the mod, you may have got it elsewhere and it was added to this mod somehow.

any idea on when you will allow API keys. I've got a fairly low volume human spammer that this plugin started blocking, but at about a 75% rate or so. I'd like to be able to report is other email addresses and IPs to shut him out of others.

Thanks for this plugin, i am having zero problems with it.

Database error in vBulletin 4.2.2:

Invalid SQL:
SELECT * FROM glowhostspamomatic_stats;

MySQL Error : Table 'databasename.glowhostspamomatic_stats' doesn't exist
Error Number : 1146
Request Date : Friday, January 3rd 2014 @ 07:58:53 PM
Error Date : Friday, January 3rd 2014 @ 07:58:54 PM
Script : http://www..com/main/forum.php
Referrer : http://www./main/admincp/index.php?do=head
IP Address :
Username :
Classname : vB_Database
MySQL Version : 5.5.35-log

I had the same malware attack on my site. Had to rename the old dir. and create a new one. Re-uploaded all the Vb-core files and edited my config. Now trying to get the plugin's reinstalled. Reloaded this one and I get the error above.

You will need to install the plugin and files again see if that fixes the problem. If not can do a sql for you to run

ForceHHS. Tried to reinstall the files still same error. also uploaded the XML again and had it over write / upgrade. No luck.

Try removing all files then xml then put in a new install if that does not work will do that sql for u later as going to bed now

Ok tried to remove the xml and I get a internal server error.

Internal Server Error

The server encountered an internal error or misconfiguration and was unable to complete your request.

Please contact the server administrator, [email protected] and inform them of the time the error occurred, and anything you might have done that may have caused the error.

More information about this error may be available in the server error log.

Additionally, a 404 Not Found error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request.

Apache Server at www.bayoujeepersoffroad.com Port 80

Check server log for more info

How to remove Rejected IP ?
1 member email me and he says i am not spammer and then i check IP and user name he is showing in Spam O Matic Logs ?
How i give permission to register again ?

I would check the spam o matic site first as the plugin wont block his ip for no reason

Checked the logs couldn't find anything referring to glow host. If I disable hooks in global would that shut off glow host?

hanful blocked so far.

perhaps i'll do a write up of this mod to help get glowhost some new customers!

thanks guys!

You cant rewrite someone elses code unless they give you their permission sorry site rules

Did you check webmaster email that you have in the config.php as the error will be sent there

Run this from the admincp/Maintenance/Execute SQL Query

Block Disabled:      (Update License Status)
Suspended or Unlicensed Members Cannot View Code.

Then this after the above query

Block Disabled:      (Update License Status)
Suspended or Unlicensed Members Cannot View Code.

I think what he meant was writing a review of the mod. :)

Dear Mod creator, Dear Community,

the GlowHost Spam-o-matic is excelent, it helps me much. But im experiencing malicious infection regarding "GlowHost - Spam-O-Matic 2.1.2"

First time i had some lower version of your mod. And when i got filestore72.info malicious redirect when comming to my forum from Google (not directly). Then when i disabled your mod, it started working. So i upgraded to the latest version and after few days filestore redirect is back. So i disale mod, and redirect is away :(

Please any idea how i can debug the cause?! Thank you

You have a virus either on ur forums from being hacked or your own pc

Nothing to do with this add-on. Disabling any mod will flush the datastore and that will appear to banish the malware temporarily. It will be back after a day or two though until you track down and eradicate it.

There are numerous threads at vB.com, vB.org, and several other forums on this malware. It is enabled by poor server and password security, especially file and directory permissions. You need to lock down your server, update to the latest version of vBulletin and any add-ons, and then check all files from your AdminCP Maintenance menu. You need especially to disallow execution of any files in your upload directories (avatars, profile pics, etc.) and delete the entire install directory after every update.

It's also a good idea to ensure that you have password protected the vBulletin Admin at the server level and change all admin passwords to something secure.

djbaxter, you were right, error probably not in this Mod. I will need to check this, but i think i already found quick fix for this redirect. Adding line:
if($_GET['g']=='js') die;
into top of php code of the /misc.php file (more)

Ok ran it. Going to re-enable plugins and see what happens. thanks for the help.

This hope you dont have other tables missing

Would be nice if this deleted all blog posts as well.

Can pm you a custom mod that will do that

Really? You been holding out on us Force. ;)
I been having trouble with blog spam so I wouldn't mind using this.

Started getting this error last few days.

Database error in vBulletin 4.2.2:

Invalid SQL:
DELETE FROM glowhostspamomatic_remotecache WHERE `date` < DATE_SUB(NOW(), INTERVAL 30 DAY);;

MySQL Error : Table '.glowhostspamomatic_remotecache' doesn't exist
Error Number : 1146
Request Date : Friday, January 17th 2014 @ 12:04:10 PM
Error Date : Friday, January 17th 2014 @ 12:04:10 PM
Script : http://www.bayoujeepersoffroad.com/m...p?do=addmember
Referrer : http://www.bayoujeepersoffroad.com/m...p?do=checkdate
IP Address :
Username :
Classname : vB_Database_MySQLi
MySQL Version :