Ozzy47
Administrator
Spam is a giant pain in the arse. It can be hell to clean up after. Things such as CAPTCHA, reCAPTCHA, and Question and Answer Verification are defeated by programs such as XRumer
There are a few useful mods from vBulletin.org that have proven very effective against spammers even getting to the site.
This will stop most of the spam bots that auto-register: ( Brought to you by, kh99 )
Spambot Stopper - Prevent Spambots from Registering vB 4.x
Spambot Stopper - Prevent Spambots from Registering vB 3.x
This gets alot of human spammers because they still use early IE and other known bad user agents: ( Brought to you by, Simon Lloyd )
Ban Spiders by User Agent vB 4.x
Ban Spiders by User Agent vB 3.x
This stops registration by any device on blacklisted host names: ( Brought to you by, nhawk )
Hostname or Useragent Registration Ban works on vB 3.x and vB 4.x series
This one stops registrations that use spammy email usernames containing dots and other punctuation.
[OzzModz] Block Registrations With Spam Like Email Addresses vB 4.x and vB 3.x
This mod gives you a chance to stop them BEFORE they even attempt to register: ( Brought to you by, BirdOPrey5 )
Rename register.php by BOP5 works on vB 3.x and vB 4.x series
I have a couple of lists to use with the mods. One is for use with the Ban Spiders by User Agent mod, and the other is for the Hostname or Useragent Registration Ban mod. These lists were not compiled by me, they were provided to me by, Max Taxable
Make sure the Ban Spiders by User Agent list is one useragent on each line, and the Hostname or Useragent Registration Ban list is a comma separated list. Open the documents with wordpad, not notepad. NOTE: You must be a member in order to download the lists. :yo:
NONE of the above use captchas, puzzles, questions or other such nonsense that merely annoys legitimate users, and have been rendered obsolete anyway for the most part, by auto-spam programs such as XRumer.
The era of Big Spam is over.
There are a few useful mods from vBulletin.org that have proven very effective against spammers even getting to the site.
This will stop most of the spam bots that auto-register: ( Brought to you by, kh99 )
Spambot Stopper - Prevent Spambots from Registering vB 4.x
Spambot Stopper - Prevent Spambots from Registering vB 3.x
This gets alot of human spammers because they still use early IE and other known bad user agents: ( Brought to you by, Simon Lloyd )
Ban Spiders by User Agent vB 4.x
Ban Spiders by User Agent vB 3.x
This stops registration by any device on blacklisted host names: ( Brought to you by, nhawk )
Hostname or Useragent Registration Ban works on vB 3.x and vB 4.x series
This one stops registrations that use spammy email usernames containing dots and other punctuation.
[OzzModz] Block Registrations With Spam Like Email Addresses vB 4.x and vB 3.x
This mod gives you a chance to stop them BEFORE they even attempt to register: ( Brought to you by, BirdOPrey5 )
Rename register.php by BOP5 works on vB 3.x and vB 4.x series
I have a couple of lists to use with the mods. One is for use with the Ban Spiders by User Agent mod, and the other is for the Hostname or Useragent Registration Ban mod. These lists were not compiled by me, they were provided to me by, Max Taxable
Make sure the Ban Spiders by User Agent list is one useragent on each line, and the Hostname or Useragent Registration Ban list is a comma separated list. Open the documents with wordpad, not notepad. NOTE: You must be a member in order to download the lists. :yo:
NONE of the above use captchas, puzzles, questions or other such nonsense that merely annoys legitimate users, and have been rendered obsolete anyway for the most part, by auto-spam programs such as XRumer.
The era of Big Spam is over.