RS Spamshield

Copyright © by Ronald P. Steiner, Alexander Kellner <ronald.steiner@no spam pleasegooglemail.com, Alexander.Kellner@no spam pleaseeinpraegsam.net>
Published under the Open Content License available from http://www.opencontent.org/opl.shtml

Table Of Contents

• 1. Spamshield
  • 1.1. Extension Key: spamshield
  • 1.2. Copyright 2005-2009, Ronald Steiner <Ronald.Steiner [at] googlemail [dot] com>, Alexander Kellner <AlexanderKellner [at] einpraegsam [dot] net>
  • 1.3. Read online
  • 1.4. This document is published under the Open Content License
  • 1.5. available from http://www.opencontent.org/opl.shtml
  • 1.6. Read online
  • 1.7. The content of this document is related to TYPO3
  • 1.8. - a GNU/GPL CMS/Framework available from www.typo3.com
  • 1.9. Read online
  • 1.10. Read online
  • 1.11. Introduction
    • What does it do?
  • 1.12. Universal invisible Spamshield for TYPO3: check for referer, useragent, javascript, httpbl.org-blacklist, and honeypot-fields
  • 1.13. The installation is very easy. The default configuration will serve for most needs. Lots of configuration options help to adjust to special requirements.
  • 1.14. This are the ideas behind the default spam checks:
  • 1.15. Per default each check has equal weight and one spam suspect events (1-5) is enough to ban data submission as spam.
  • 1.16. Per default Spamshield logs detected spam in the DB on pid 0. So you can analyze the submitted spam.
  • 1.17. When spam is detected a message will be shown that helps in the unlikely case if a normal user has been blocked. There is no redirection that spam bots won't notice that something is wrong.
  • 1.18. IMPORTANT: If you have ideas for extension improvement, write an email and support fighting spam!
  • 1.19. Installation
    • Import SpamShield from Extension repository and install
  • 1.20. The installation process of the extension is just as usual. Just download and install the extension with the the extension manager.
  • 1.21. Here you can add your configuration and if you want to use the httpbl.org blacklist your access key. You will get this access key from httpbl.org for free.
    • Add static template to main template of the site
  • 1.22. Similar to most modern Typo3 extensions add the static template of Spamshield to the main template of your page.
    • Use TS to adjust the honey pot check
    • If you want to adjust the honey pot check. For e.g. you can name your honey pot fields and use your own CSS rules to hide them. Just take a look in the static/setup.txt it will be very easy for you to figure out.
  • 1.23. Known Problems
    • JavaScript and Cookie-Check and multiple Domains
    • Referer-Check and multiple Domains
  • 1.24. ToDo
  • 1.25. According to my tests Spamshield is very effective. But I'm open to any suggestion, especially if it comes with help.
  • 1.26. Some ideas might be:
  • 1.27. Changelog
    • 25.04.2011: by Ronald Steiner - (0.0.27 beta)
    • 24.04.2011: by Ronald Steiner - (0.0.27 beta)
    • 24.04.2011: by Ronald Steiner - (0.0.26 beta)
    • 09.03.2011: by Stefan Galinski and Ronald Steiner - (0.0.25 beta)
    • 07.09.2009: by Goran Medakovic and Ronald Steiner - (0.0.18 beta)
    • 21.7.2009: by Ronald Steiner – (0.0.8-0.0.17 beta)
    • 21.7.2009: by Ronald Steiner - (0.0.7 beta)
    • 19.7.2009: by Ronald Steiner - (0.0.6 beta)
    • 14.2.2009: by Ronald Steiner - (0.0.5 beta)
    • 1.2.2009: by Ronald Steiner - (0.0.4 beta)
    • 27.1.2009: by Ronald Steiner - (0.0.3 beta)
    • 25.1.2009: by Ronald Steiner - (0.0.2 beta)
    • 24.1.2009: by Ronald Steiner - First release of Spamshield to TER (0.0.1 beta)
    • 13.1.2009: by Alexander Kellner - wt_spamshield (0.5.0 beta)

This document is related to version 0.0.29 of the extension spamshield.