Ultimate Spambot Killer

This product is a natural evolution of many single solutions. It is an attempt to integrate in vBulletin the features other applications have, without requiring a lot of code, and without obviously giving the code to the spammers.

With this software, your board connects to one of the most powerful email checking engines available. The engine itself is maintained remotely and can currently be accessed at the production server. After debugging and wide-scale test, it will be moved to vbulletin.it.

Please read first the included help before installing!


BETA RELEASE

1.0.4: FIX misplaced bracket
1.0.5 More reliable connections and a few new options, updated help. This version should be the last one before release.

Online Help

Please continue discussing here (stable release).

NOT SUPPORTED!

With this software, your board connects to one of the most powerful email checking engines available. The engine itself is accessed and maintained remotely. For this reason, product updates are rare.

Please try this product first on a test board. It requires access to an external URL via CURL or fopen().

If you experience timeouts, white pages or similar during the registration process of a new user, your hosting plan does not allow to access external pages or is generally overloaded. In order to complete a remote request, the script timeout should allow for 30 seconds of execution. Most requests are returned after a few seconds, but some DNS or mail servers may take more time to reply.

If CURL is installed, this will be used as the preferred method, else fopen(). One of the methods must allow to access external sites else it won't work at all.

New for version 1.1.3:
- Missing Scheduled Task Entry.

New for version 1.1.2:
- Daily cron-job for setting Update IP Censor List to your vBulletin User Banning Options. This feature retrieves the most recent blacklisted IP addresses and simply denies access to notoriously known spammers and spam sustainers. In the options, you may refer to a different script. This cron-job is by default disabled. You may switch it on in your vBulletin Scheduled Tasks. Also, it will need to set Enable Banning Options: Yes in order to make this feature work. Please note that if enabled, eventually existing IP Censor List entries are replaced.
- Time-zone restrictions for new users. When new users register from an unsupported time-zone, you may deny access or place those users in the moderation queue.

New for version 2.0.0:
- General service revision (backend)
- Detailed error messages during registration. This makes it easier for your subscribers to understand, why an email box is rejected, but also to spammers how to circumvent. Now it is up to you to decide what information to show and what to hide - using the translation system (phrase prefix: usk_).
- No options, no files, no tasks, no time-zones, no user moderation, just a backend call and a reply.

If you wish to use version 2+, please uninstall the 1+ versions first.

Compatibility: vBulletin 3.6.5+, 3.7.x, 3.8.x, 4.x