[TAC] Fool Bot Honey Pot

[TAC] Fool Bot Honey Pot 3.0.32

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  • Now makes use of StopBotters, this API will become increasing efficient at stopping bots with the more forums that use it.
  • Fields that can be tabbed into can no longer have their value changed
  • The error message seen by bots now has the link passed into the phrase (avoids index.php when applicable)
  • FireFox cosmetic issue (thin blue line under the email field on registration form) has been fixed

  • Fixed the core issue related to custom fields not actually being required (for bots)
  • Rearranged zip to work with Chris Deeming's plugin uploader
  • Minor Enhancement, fields that strongly suggest an automated program are now highlighted red within the logs
  • Minor Enhancement, the "count" of the number of hidden fields that have been altered has been brought to the front of the logs
Fixed an infrequent and hard to detect bug. In IE7 (and possibly IE8). If a user has non default settings and turns on Auto Complete on for forms and passwords, 'sometimes?' it seems setting [AUTOCOMPLETE = "off"] is not abided to by the browser. I've now set these values after the page has loaded bypassing the IE auto complete

Thankfully, the explicit logging details made the identification of this bug much easier
  • For Logging purpopsues only, you may have noticed that some real users were getting logged as not having javascipt enabled (but javascript detected), these users would have been able to register without issue, but would have been logged as not having javascript enabled.. (but yet detected???). This was a silly school boy error, "$nonJSBot = true" shoud have been "$nonJSBot == true" in the logging section.
  • Corrected the versioning (2.0.x not 1.0.x)
  • Turned logging of altered hidden fields back on
  • Now detects basic proxies (more than 80% bots seem to use easily detected proxies)
  • UUIDs of form field names are now generated on the fly (for each session), meaning the registration form is different each and every time for bots
  • JavaScript detection is now possible (XRumer is not a JavaScript Enabled Browser)
  • Plug-ins of the Browser are now detected (bots do not have any of the standard plugins installed)
Includes a fix in the install file (missing column "server")
  • Since FoolBotHoneyPot currently catches 100% of bots that attempt to register via the registration page, I've increased the logging of content (to investigate bots further)
  • A RegistrationTimer option is now available to prevent bots / humans that register "too fast" ... this can be set to a low value that only a bot would likely complete
  • For every bot that is caught, the registration time is recorded
  • For every bot that is caught, the user_agent is recorded
  • The port used is now also recorded
  • The server params are also recorded so various sent headers can be checked
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