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Thanks very much, working a treat so far, and since the re-captcha has been hacked i advise all board owners to install this mods.

Cheers for your efforts

I installed this hack a couple months ago... but never commented in this thread. This hack has all but removed ALL spam from my forum.. up until a day ago when recaptcha was broken. Since installing this.. until a day ago... I had 0 spam at all!!! THIS mod is HUGE for preventing spam! Now... with the addition to another recent mod for asking specific questions.. I don't expect to have much. THANK YOU!! 5 stars!

Hi just to let you know I have tested it on the beta 1 and I just get an error as below when a user logs out.
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Warning: session_destroy() [function.session-destroy]: Trying to destroy uninitialized session in /home/cariad00/public_html/libraries/joomla/session/session.php on line 98

Warning: session_start() [function.session-start]: Cannot send session cookie - headers already sent by (output started at [path]/includes/class_core.php:5363) in /home/cariad00/public_html/libraries/joomla/session/session.php on line 423

Warning: session_start() [function.session-start]: Cannot send session cache limiter - headers already sent (output started at [path]/includes/class_core.php:5363) in /home/cariad00/public_html/libraries/joomla/session/session.php on line 423

Warning: Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at [path]/includes/class_core.php:5363) in /home/cariad00/public_html/libraries/joomla/session/session.php on line 426

Warning: Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at [path]/includes/class_core.php:5363) in /home/cariad00/public_html/libraries/joomla/application/application.php on line 624

Can I suggest adding a 'report user' link to member profiles?

Can anyone confirm that the previous issues with forums that have modified MOD and AdminCP folder names is resolved ?

This is a great mod. Thanks so much!

One suggestion would be to show in the description, documentation, and possibly the dependencies for the install is to have CURL enabled on the server for those users that want to actually be able to check the StopForumSpam database. I knew my server could contact SFS, because I was able to manually ban/submit spambots, and they show up as logged in their database immediately.

I was experiencing the exact same errors in my log file, and the spambots were able to register because the mod wasn't able to read the database at SFS just like tomarsyd describes earlier here and then he posted a link to the fix here.

Here is a sample of the error in the log in case someone is searching:

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

I have enabled CURL, and now the mod has already checked with SFS, and denied several spammers, while successfully signing up an actual user.
Thanks again!

vb 4.0.1
S-O-M 1.2.8
No other mods installed
PHP Version 5.2.12

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Originally Posted by KW802 (Post 2143435)

Curious issue.... it seems that all my of RSS Feed Manager new posts are getting created but as being moderated. Thoughts before I start digging through it?

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Originally Posted by mmacrypt (Post 2145130)

wow, I installed this just about 2 days ago and it's logged 324 entries so far. I had no clue that much crap was trying to log on to my site. That's over 150 a day, while my previous spam counter measures stopped all except about 10 a day, those 10 were really starting to cause issues. So again, thanks for this very cool mod.

But I do have 1 question, I haven't looked into it real hard yet but every since I installed this mod and one other spam mod that creates a question during registration. My own bot which posts a few GSS feeds to my site now needs to be moderated to be approved and it wasn't like that before. Again, I haven't looked into it real hard yet but if somebody has a simple answer, I would appreciate it.

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Originally Posted by Delphiprogrammi (Post 2145384)

hi,

I found a small innocent bug this code in /admincp/glowhostspamomatic.php

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

should be

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

$stylevar['right'] is deprecated in vb 4
great hack already stopped six spammers :up:

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Originally Posted by Silver_2000_)! (Post 2146746)

Can anyone confirm that the previous issues with forums that have modified MOD and AdminCP folder names is resolved ?

These issues will all be solved in Version 2.0 which should be released at the end of the week.

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Originally Posted by GlowHost.com (Post 2146780)

These issues will all be solved in Version 2.0 which should be released at the end of the week.

Thank you so much for the update and for your continued willingness to provide support to those of us who use your modification.
:cool:

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Originally Posted by hugh_ (Post 2146741)

Can I suggest adding a 'report user' link to member profiles?

Your original post read

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Originally Posted by hugh_ (Post 2146741)

Can I suggest adding a report user link to member profiles for suspicious looking users...

I would remind you and others that the database is for known (i.e., proven) spammers. If people start reporting registrants who they merely suspect might be spammers or might be intending to spam, the entire database becomes effectively useless. It is in the interest of ALL forum owners that we protect the integrity of the database by exericsing good sense.

What do users who're blocked see when they're denied access?

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Originally Posted by djbaxter (Post 2146796)

Your original post read

I would remind you and others that the database is for known (i.e., proven) spammers. If people start reporting registrants who they merely suspect might be spammers or might be intending to spam, the entire database becomes effectively useless. It is in the interest of ALL forum owners that we protect the integrity of the database by exericsing good sense.

That is true, but at the end of the day, the data fetched does expire and your individual expiration times can be set in modification settings. So even if there is a false positive, it should not last so long as to ban your legit users permanently.

This setting is located at StopForumSpam: Remote Expiry

I just got stuffed by hostgator who said that I sent 3500 emails out in an hour. It seems related to this mod. Is this the mod verifying emails etc. And is the a way I can throttle the emails being sent to about 200 an hour? Why so many will they reduce? these were sent after installation.

This mod doesn't send any emails. It makes log entries in the vB admin panel instead.

Have you got an email I can send the email to as it talks about removing emails and only was sent when I installed your mod. be greatful if you could take a peak?

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