Fly06 Spammer Blocker ComponentModulePlugin

New version v1.0.1 (Oct 9, 2009)

The Fly06 Spammer Blocker extension allows you to block the registration of potential spammers.

It uses the API provided by the www.stopforumspam.com website to decide whether the user is a spammer or not and stop the registration process accordingly. The plugin supports the default Joomla! as well as Community Builder and JUser registrations. Three criteria can be combined to identify a spammer : ip, username and email according to two decision process : 'all of them' (weak) or 'at least one' (strong). The plugin is easily configurable in the Joomla! backend and comes with useful additional features such admin email notification, redirection handling, user notification and more...

This extension is much more than a simple upgrade from J!1.0 to J!1.5. The plugin has been completely rewritten, some bugs have been fixed and blocked spammers can now be logged in the database. Moreover, this extension includes a component (backend) for managing logs and a module for showing the latest spammers to front-end visitors and/or users.

Currently supported languages: English and French.

What's new in v1.0.1?

- Use of onAfterRoute event (instead of onAfterInitialize) to make the plugin SEF-compliant
- Help files were updated to reflect the new site's urls (fly06.fr)

Reminder: Please note that the J!1.0 version is not supported anymore.

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bymikesimaska on April 25, 2009
After registering and installing the plugin both the front end and back end just displayed "Restricted Access". Had to manually remove the folder and edit jos_plugins to get my site back up! Too bad as I'm getting a lot of spammer registering and have to try to keep up manually. StopForumSpam lists every spammer email that I manually removed !! Still looking for good registration plug-in that blocks known spammers from registering.
Owner's reply

'Restricted access' just means that you're trying to access a joomla php file outside the joomla context...
Are you using joomla 1.5 instead of joomla 1.0 or have you changed the _VALID_MOS constant in your joomla 1.0 installation?