spamtrawler Posted June 5, 2014 Share Posted June 5, 2014 File Name: SpamTrawler Integration File Submitter: spamtrawler File Submitted: 05 Jun 2014 File Category: Integration Supported Versions: IP.Blog 2.6.x, IP.Board 3.1.x, IP.Board 3.2.x, IP.Board 3.3.x, IP.Board 3.4.x, IP.Content 2.3.x SpamTrawler Traffic Management and Security Suite - Integration Founded in 2010 we have been working with customers using a wide range of CMS, Social Networking and Blogging platforms like SocialEngine, Wordpress and PHPfox. Over these years SpamTrawler has evolved from a simple "IP and Country blacklist" into a fully featured product assisting administrators with a variety of otherwise tedious and frustrating daily tasks. The suite consists of various reporting, filter and scan functionalities which help administrators keeping their websites clean from undesired traffic/content (spam) and unapproved file-system modifications. While some of our customers have already been using SpamTrawler with their IPB powered websites, we have decided it is now time to release an official hook providing a convenient way of integration and control.This hook integrates an existing SpamTrawler installation into your instance of IPB Please find a short overview of the functionality included with SpamTrawler below.Statistics SpamTrawler’s admin dashboard contains a variety of charts and statistics giving administrators a deep insight into how the firewall is performing.Firewall Enables administrators to shape traffic to their requirements and prevent access to known and emerging offenders. The firewall consists of the following pre-integrated filters: URL Parameter Country (Allow and Deny mode, possibility to use either MaxMind or IP2Location databses) IP (Local black-/grey-/whitelist as well as a community maintained blacklist) IP Ranges (Local Black-/Whitelist) Hostname (Black-/Whitelist) Organization (MaxMind IP2Organization database required) Character Set (Chinese, Japanese, Cyrillic) Honeypot Fields (Monitors hidden form fields for content) User agent Referrer Username Intrusion Detection (Based on PHPIDS) Email (Local and community maintained blacklist and limiting of digits) ProjectHoneypot DNSBL URLBL Google SafeBrowsing Hooks (Pre-packed hooks: Stop Forum Spam & CleanTalk) Selective Captcha (Can be activated/deactivated by filter and or GeoLocation) Actions to be taken by the firewall for blocked visitors can be chosen from:Exit (With freely definable exit message via WYSIWYG editor including placeholders) Redirect SetConstant (In order to process blocked users by custom functionality in the respective host system) 403 Error (Access Denied) Server Overload Protection SpamTrawler provides an overload protection feature to protect the web server from overload situations. A typical form of overload protection/load regulation is to reject further requests when the load increases. Available actions are:Exit (With freely definable exit message via WYSIWYG editor) Redirect Skip SpamTrawler (Firewall is not executed) Maintenance Mode Enables administrators to set an exit message or redirect visitors to a freely definable URL for all sites protected by the same SpamTrawler installation.File Integrity Enables administrators to continuously monitor and assess file system integrity preventing unwanted modifications, deletions and additions. The "File Integrity Section" consists of the following functionality:File System Signatures (Create and Compare) Find Files by Content Find Files by Name Find Files Modified within the last 24 hours Check Permissions Virus Scanner (ClamAV wrapper) Malware Scanner (Linux Malware Detect wrapper) These functionalities can be used wither manually from within the SpamTrawler admin panel or automated via cron jobs using SpamTrawler’s APIMaps Gives a geographical traffic overview using Google MapsA few words on performance SpamTrawler is in use on approximately 900 websites some of which receiving large amounts of traffic without known performance issues. This is due to the extensive use of caching mechanisms keeping database interaction and latency at a minimum. Once filtered, subsequent visits do not require database interaction for a freely definable amount of time (Cache Timeout) Caching can be configured to use any of the following back ends:FileSystem (Standard) Memcached (Enables usage in load balanced environments) APC XCache SQLite Blackhole (No Caching, can be used in load balanced environments) Support Note This hook as well as SpamTrawler are supported via our forums and support ticket system. This hook is provided for the convenience of customers to integrate a pre-existing installation of SpamTrawler into their IPB powered websites.While this hook is offered for free, SpamTrawler itself is not free software and is available separately via our website here to download this file Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AlexWebsites Posted June 6, 2014 Share Posted June 6, 2014 I have been using this with phpfox and am happy to see that it is being offered now for IPB. How does this complement the IPB built in spam monitoring, which is pretty strong. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spamtrawler Posted June 6, 2014 Author Share Posted June 6, 2014 good to see you here :-)Apart from SpamTrawler having functionality not available with the regular spam monitoring service, I believe both solutions complement each other pretty well.Also as far as I am aware the IPB spam monitoring is only available to customers with active update subscriptions which means those without do not have access to it while still being able to use SpamTrawler.For those using additional software on their IPB powered website (Wordpress for bloging or as CMS for example) SpamTrawler can be used for both IPB and Wordpress meaning only one central configuration rather than maintaining multiple solutions. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stev35555 Posted June 7, 2014 Share Posted June 7, 2014 I have to say I use this with wordpress and phpfox on two of my sites and will be using it with my new ipb site when launched. It really does work wonders and gives you more control over the spam. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bing11 Posted June 8, 2014 Share Posted June 8, 2014 I have many trash topics from proxy . Could you help block them ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spamtrawler Posted June 8, 2014 Author Share Posted June 8, 2014 Hi bing11,Yes SpamTrawler would definitely help to drastically lower the amount of spam be it from proxies or non-proxy visitors you receive on your website.For any questions please feel free to contact us.Best RegardsOliver Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spamtrawler Posted June 12, 2014 Author Share Posted June 12, 2014 As an appreciation for the IPB community we are happy to offer a 40% discount for new licenses This offer is valid from now until the 30th of June. To avail of the discount please use the following promotion code with your order: STIPB2014 For any questions please feel free to contact us. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kjell Iver Johansen Posted June 4, 2015 Share Posted June 4, 2015 Will this be updated for 4.0.X? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spamtrawler Posted June 4, 2015 Author Share Posted June 4, 2015 Yes the integration will be updated to v4 :-)Until updated you will still be able to include SpamTrawler manually if wished so :-) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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