Module: StopForumSpam

Re: Module: StopForumSpam

Skye N. — Tue, 17 Sep 2013 17:14:18 -0500

Glad it's working well for you, it's a very good service!

Re: Module: StopForumSpam

rickrich — Tue, 10 Sep 2013 06:18:33 -0500

"dip2 delicate1032@outlook.com Pending moderator confirmation 0 09/10/2013"

Nice! *1032@outlook.com posted shoe-related stuff that I had to delete and ban the user. Went on for months.

With StopForumSpam, he didn't get in!

Re: Module: StopForumSpam

rickrich — Fri, 06 Sep 2013 06:11:22 -0500

Installed this module tonight. Fingers crossed.

How about making it one of the modules that you get in phorum 5.2.20+ ?

Re: Module: StopForumSpam

agentabstract — Wed, 02 Jan 2013 22:57:02 -0600

I installed this mod and it really stopped all of my spam issues overnight. It's just an awesome mod, a must have. Those creeps found my site over night and I was getting like one or spam attacks a day that I then had to constantly moderate. Turing this mod on just put an end to it completely. It's so good. Thank you Thank you Thank you. Been using it for over a month now, and I'm totally spam free.

Re: Module: StopForumSpam

Scott Finegan — Sat, 14 Jul 2012 21:38:03 -0500

Thomas,

SFS = stopforumspam . com

I've been using this module for a while, and it works very well as far as it goes.
--I am on a server that lets me use .htaccess and I tested banning ips, cutting and pasting. A couple of weeks of that and it got old (about a thousand ips).
---My next test was with the Phorum ban list. I downloaded from SFS a 7 day list of bad ips (21925 ips), imported it into the Phorum ban list and let it cook for a few days. Performance hit was minimal, but it didn't check/stop those that attempt to use the login page.

I was working on a list of things I wanted to see added to Phorum or its modules related to SFS.
...Every user ip should be checked at login with SFS, and blocked if it is a spam ip.
...One button click to add an ip to the ban list or .htaccess from the event logger.
... ...ban list needs paging with 20,000 entries.
... ...ban list not optimized for ips, no index on string varchar field
... ...not practical to delete 20,000 ban list items one at a time in Phorum
...Ip group by count in the event logger (fast way to find the ips that have the most entries, regardless of "Source")
...Add the SFS info to the moderators user approval page, and your Block User module.

Doing some research at SFS I read quite a bit in their forums. There I ran across a reference to zbblock located here--> spambotsecurity . com. Zbblock does more than query the stopforumspam database, and it will handle other types of attacks besides spam, but only for .php pages. It keeps and builds a local cache of bad ips, lowering the need to query the SFS database.

---I downloaded and installed zbblock (painless addition to common.php on the first line), disabled the stop forum spam module, cleared the event log. I will try this for a few days, but so far there are no entries in my event log.

Re: Module: StopForumSpam (Preview)

Robert Angle — Thu, 12 Jan 2012 00:06:19 -0600

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Thomas Seifert
Btw. how did you post this message, anything special about it? I got it as unapproved, maybe from spamhurdles, thats why I'm asking.

That's a good hunch. I use the module "Moderated User Groups" to keep newbies in moderation, but sometimes an unmoderated users post will get held in queue. Then, the other night I fell asleep typing a message, and finished it in the morning and clicked Submit - and then MY post was labeled an Unapproved Message - and I'm the administrator (LOL!).

I'm running Spam Hurdles too, and now I think I am onto the problem.

Re: Module: StopForumSpam

Thomas Seifert — Tue, 10 Jan 2012 14:20:18 -0600

New release uploaded with skye's changes.

Re: Module: StopForumSpam (Preview)

Thomas Seifert — Thu, 22 Dec 2011 00:52:58 -0600

Thanks for the patches. I'll try to review and release them in the next couple of days.

Re: Module: StopForumSpam (Preview)

Thomas Seifert — Thu, 22 Dec 2011 00:49:37 -0600

stale spamhurdles post form data probably ;)

Re: Module: StopForumSpam (Preview)

Skye N. — Tue, 20 Dec 2011 19:26:39 -0600

Here's my patches. I'm running version 5.2.15a

[pastebin.com]

1. Renamed lang/en.php to lang/english.php
2. Changed default to check IP and email (those seem to get the best result)
3. Added new "force_generic" option to show less helpful message. I do not want spammers to get any hint as to why they are being blocked (eg many spammers have a pool of IPs to use)
4. Added new "freq_min" option for finer control over blocking threshold. All checked fields frequency is added, if it is above this score it's considered spammy. Use value 1 for maximum blocking (like v0.1)
5. Fixed duplicate "check_email" URL arg which was supposed to be check_username

When checking by IP, some web proxies like *.proxy.aol.com will cause a bunch of false positives, I recommend setting the score to >= 5 or even 10 if false positives are more important than the occasional spammer getting in.

Hopefully this won't be held for moderation again....

Re: Module: StopForumSpam (Preview)

Skye N. — Mon, 19 Dec 2011 13:24:40 -0600

I'm not sure why my post was held for moderation; I have had this thread open in a tab for a few days, that's the only thing I can think of (stale auth cookie?)

Re: Module: StopForumSpam (Preview)

Thomas Seifert — Mon, 19 Dec 2011 00:33:04 -0600

Yeah, that would be great. Or send them to me personally, I'll add them either way.

Btw. how did you post this message, anything special about it? I got it as unapproved, maybe from spamhurdles, thats why I'm asking.

Re: Module: StopForumSpam (Preview)

Skye N. — Sun, 18 Dec 2011 19:01:44 -0600

I'm developing the module further, what is the best way to contribute changes? Attach a patch diff in this thread?

Re: Module: StopForumSpam (Preview)

Skye N. — Thu, 15 Dec 2011 21:38:46 -0600

Thank you!!! I just started working on this today, I'm glad to see you beat me to it.... I'm quite the slowpoke.

I've actually been running stopforumspam lookups in a module for some other software for a few months now, it works quite well.
Just didn't get around to making it a module. I have two Phorum installations that need this really bad, I had to completely close registrations on one.

Thanks again

Module: StopForumSpam

Thomas Seifert — Mon, 28 Nov 2011 11:42:00 -0600

This module allows to check registrations against the stopforumspam.com database.
It allows to select which one of the 3 checks (ip, username, email) should be run and blocks or unapproves a user which fails the given check(s).

Changelog:
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2016/10/27 version 0.3 by Oliver Riesen-Mallmann 
- Added german translation.
- info.txt and README extended.

2012/01/10 version 0.2 by Skye Nott 
- Renamed lang/en.php to lang/english.php.
- Changed default to check IP and email (those seem to get the best result).
- Added new "force_generic" option to show less helpful message. I do not want
  spammers to get any hint as to why they are being blocked (e.g. many spammers
  have a pool of IPs to use).
- Added new "freq_min" option for finer control over blocking threshold. All
  checked fields frequency is added, if it is above this score it's considered
  spammy. Use value 1 for maximum blocking (like version 0.1).
- Fixed duplicate "check_email" URL arg which was supposed to be
  check_username.

2011/11/28 version 0.1 by Thomas Seifert 
- Initial release.

ToDo's include:

option to send a given user as a spammer to stopforumspam.com (the only point where the apikey is really needed otherwise it can be filled with random characters)
... your ideas?