[ForceHSS]

Something like this has already been made
http://www.vbulletin.org/forum/showthread.php?t=291851

[Hostboard]

Originally Posted by ForceHSS

Something like this has already been made
http://www.vbulletin.org/forum/showthread.php?t=291851

His was the reason i did this as I see a few issues...

False positives with modifications like this for some.
It talks back to his servers for the country block list.

Originally Posted by koneil

Yes it does talk back to the server. Our IP lists on the server are alway up to date even with current changes.

• If his servers go down, this part of the modification will not work.
• If he decides to close shop this part of the modification will not work.
• If he decides not to offer the service, this part of the modification will not work.
• For those on limited bandwidth, it is using their quota up (even minimally)
• Potential slowdowns with retrieving the information, whether it be many connections to his server or a few too many hops between you and them, or even 1 hop experiencing high latency.

Mine is a 100% in house solution, that is not relying on someone else to provide the information.

[tarzan22]

Hello

Which countries are possible block?

regards

[Max Taxable]

Typically what I do is when a spammer registers I look at the IP address then lock out that block trying not to limit the entire country.

You can stop most all of the autospam registrations with this:

http://www.vbulletin.org/forum/showthread.php?t=289463

[Hostboard]

Originally Posted by tarzan22

Hello

Which countries are possible block?

regards

Any or all of them.

[Hostboard]

Originally Posted by Max Taxable

You can stop most all of the autospam registrations with this:

http://www.vbulletin.org/forum/showthread.php?t=289463

Again, this only deals with auto spam bots (which is good) but not fool proof or can cause false posatives.

I know there are "other solutions" as I mentioned it in my description...

There have always been a lot of requests on how to block certain countries from accessing sites due to SPAMMERS, and while there are various modifications here to help weed these wonderful individuals out, they are not fool proof and or cause too many false positives for some.

Mine is a different solution for those that want it.

[Max Taxable]

Can't unzip the file, get the error message "No files to extract."

[Max Taxable]

Originally Posted by Hostboard

Again, this only deals with auto spam bots (which is good) but not fool proof or can cause false posatives.

Thus far after a year of real-world testing, it's done neither. It's never missed a spam bot nor interfered with any human.

Yes of course it addresses automated spam, but that's also the bulk of forum spam. We all should have many arrows in our anti-spam quivers.

[Hostboard]

Originally Posted by Max Taxable

Can't unzip the file, get the error message "No files to extract."

I have re-uploaded using WinZip (prior was WinRar) Please try again...

[djbaxter]

How often do you plan to update this list of IP addresses? Because you ARE going to need to do this - often.

Here's a better solution: http://www.vbulletin.org/forum/showthread.php?t=205044

[Hostboard]

Originally Posted by djbaxter

How often do you plan to update this list of IP addresses? Because you ARE going to need to do this - often.

Here's a better solution: http://www.vbulletin.org/forum/showthread.php?t=205044

I checked unsupported for a reason... I may update it as my time permits...

Just another solution, whether it is better is up to each individual. Mine is usable across ANY website on ANY platform and is NOT dependent on anything other then the ability to use a .htaccess file.

[doctorsexy]

Smashin....

[firstimecaller]

will try this out.

anybody else find the avatars in the first two posts kinda hilarious / ironic?

Jesus... looking right, green death looking left... lulz

edit:
Just a tip: If generating a .htaccess deny block is the goal, perhaps it might be easier to use this tool: http://ipinfodb.com/ip_country_block_htaccess.php

If, like me, you need to block just about everybody BUT Europe and the Americas, it's easier than editing and removing a bunch of ampersands, even if you use find/replace in selections in your favorite text editor, since you'll be doing quite a bit of selecting, paging down, etc.

Plus you'll end up with a much smaller file to parse. I don't know what the overhead is for a bunch of comments in a .htaccess file. Another tip would be to put this into your Apache config file if possible to avoid it being loaded/parsed with each and every server request. I know not everyone has access to this on shared server accounts.

[Hostboard]

Originally Posted by firstimecaller

will try this out.

anybody else find the avatars in the first two posts kinda hilarious / ironic?

Jesus... looking right, green death looking left... lulz

edit:
Just a tip: If generating a .htaccess deny block is the goal, perhaps it might be easier to use this tool: http://ipinfodb.com/ip_country_block_htaccess.php

If, like me, you need to block just about everybody BUT Europe and the Americas, it's easier than editing and removing a bunch of ampersands, even if you use find/replace in selections in your favorite text editor, since you'll be doing quite a bit of selecting, paging down, etc.

Plus you'll end up with a much smaller file to parse. I don't know what the overhead is for a bunch of comments in a .htaccess file. Another tip would be to put this into your Apache config file if possible to avoid it being loaded/parsed with each and every server request. I know not everyone has access to this on shared server accounts.

That is funny...
Again this is a stand alone .htaccess file. The site you point to utilizes access to their server(s)

• If his servers go down, this part of the modification will not work.
• If he decides to close shop this part of the modification will not work.
• If he decides not to offer the service, this part of the modification will not work.
• For those on limited bandwidth, it is using their quota up (even minimally)
• Potential slowdowns with retrieving the information, whether it be many connections to his server or a few too many hops between you and them, or even 1 hop experiencing high latency.

Yes you could put this into your Apache config file and it is wiser to do such but like you said no everyone has that level of access.



I use EditPad Pro as it easily adds or removes prefixes to lines.