Anti-Spam Plugin Installed

[Brandon Martus]

I've installed a plugin that checks new registrations against a database of known spam IP addresses, usernames, and email addresses. Hopefully that will help a little.

Thanks to yash101 for the plugin suggestion.

[BBray_T1296]

Thanks Brandon! as always!

And Yash too!

We'll see if it works. I sure hope it helps

[yash101]

Thanks. However, it will only protect against new spam users. The old ones will remain, there to be manually discarded.

[Christopher149]

Oooh goody, the spam was starting to get a little thick.

PS. Here's a spam thread to get rid of:
http://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/sh...hreadid=121543

[Brandon Martus]

91 new accounts already rejected .. seems to be working, so far.

[Ernst]

Originally Posted by Brandon Martus

91 new accounts already rejected .. seems to be working, so far.

Wow. Is there any way to find out how many of the 54,569 user accounts would have been rejected?

[ekapalka]

Could you to save these stats somewhere, and make a graph of them some time in the future (once you gather enough data)?

[yash101]

For my site, I just erased every member (because they had no data in them anyways), and then installed the plugin. This plugin is the first defense, after which Askimet catches the rest of the spammers that get in. One nice thing is that you can report a spammer to their database, so that every forum using their plugin can know about that new spammer!

The only stats I get on the plugin I use is the number of spammers it has stopped. It might be different for the plugin that has just been installed.

[DarrinMunter]

First thing this morning when I got on here, 3 spam messages. - up to 4 now.
How hard is it for them to change there IP address to get around this plug in?

[Invictus3593]

This is great!

Good job guys!

[Brandon Martus]

Originally Posted by Munter2081

First thing this morning when I got on here, 3 spam messages. - up to 4 now.
How hard is it for them to change there IP address to get around this plug in?

Yeah, there will still be some spam, but hopefully this will ease up on the amount of threads the moderators have been dealing with.

1400 registrations denied since installing this last night.

[Ether]

Originally Posted by Brandon Martus

1400 registrations denied since installing this last night.

How many were allowed in that same time period ?

And, is there an appeal process in place for the false positives ?

[Calvin Hartley]

Thank you Brandon and yash! Glad to see an improvement.

[Brandon Martus]

Originally Posted by Ether

How many were allowed in that same time period ?

And, is there an appeal process in place for the false positives ?

22 registrations allowed through. If a user is rejected, they're told why and given a way to contact me to get registered.

[Ether]

Originally Posted by Brandon Martus

If a user is rejected, they're told why and given a way to contact me to get registered.

Excellent!