[BETA] Automatic Spammer Detection

[soma]

Excuse the double post, but is anyone encountering bots that register... though the mod never warned you in any way?

I've had 2 bots now that are both on stopforumspam by IP and email (they used a different username though) and it didn't send me any warnings or make a post in my private forum, and they were able to get off 4 or 5 spam posts.

I go delete their account and try to register with their information that they used, and then it seems to notify me just fine. But it seems like it's randomly not reporting it.

[x-rayman J]

Have you checked the date stamps of when the bots appeared in SFS and botscout against the registration time on your forum? It could be that you were unluckily the first site or one of the first sites to get hit and then when others were hit they reported the bots. Just a thought.

[soma]

Yea I thought that at first, but after looking it up the bot was reported on stopforumspam (I think) 5 times in the past. The other one was 2 or 3 times.

Anyways, I'm trying a different mod right now that simply blocks them from registering at all, and uses the SFS database. I actually really wanted this feature, so I may start using mtotheikle's mod again if he decides to implement that feature.

[JoshD Josh]

Seems I've run into a problem with this mod, I keep getting notifications of bots registering (close to 100 in the past few weeks) but none of them are listed on my forum. I also tried to update to B5 but ran into an error:

Adding new config variable: spammer_detection_enable
ERROR: Config variable spammer_detection_enable already exists.

[wired076]

Seems I've run into a problem with this mod, I keep getting notifications of bots registering (close to 100 in the past few weeks) but none of them are listed on my forum. I also tried to update to B5 but ran into an error:

Adding new config variable: spammer_detection_enable
ERROR: Config variable spammer_detection_enable already exists.

You need to remove the old beta version before installing a new version of this!!

[JoshD Josh]

Beta 4 - Beta 5:
Replace all old files with new files.

Go to yoursite.com/spammer_install.php and update MOD using UMIL.

Those are the instructions I followed.

[wired076]

I get this error:

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Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_STRING, expecting T_OLD_FUNCTION or T_FUNCTION or T_VAR or '}' in /homepages/37/d130963704/htdocs/forum/includes/acp/acp_spammers.php on line 24

Please advise on how to fix this.

I didn't get this on my local linux server but now get it when uploaded the files to the server again. Please advise.

[mtotheikle]

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Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_STRING, expecting T_OLD_FUNCTION or T_FUNCTION or T_VAR or '}' in /includes/spammers/spammer_base.php on line 27

This is because you are not running php version 5.1 which is stated in the install file. Contact your host on how to upgrade.

Thanks I had no idea. If anyone has 1and1 for their host here is what they should do to run php5
Edit the htaccess file in phpbb and copy the following...

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AddType x-mapp-php5 .php
AddHandler x-mapp-php5 .php

Site is now running the correct version of php and working fine. Thanks a lot for the help.

[wired076]

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Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_STRING, expecting T_OLD_FUNCTION or T_FUNCTION or T_VAR or '}' in /includes/spammers/spammer_base.php on line 27

This is because you are not running php version 5.1 which is stated in the install file. Contact your host on how to upgrade.

Thanks I had no idea. If anyone has 1and1 for their host here is what they should do to run php5
Edit the htaccess file in phpbb and copy the following...

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AddType x-mapp-php5 .php
AddHandler x-mapp-php5 .php

Site is now running the correct version of php and working fine. Thanks a lot for the help.

I don't remember the php.ini code that changes it to php5.

Could you please tell me??

[wired076]

This depends on the host as I found out and it happened to be a .htaccess tweak.