Fighting Spammers - Sharing some info.

[Analog-X64]

LMan might already know this info, but I thought I share it. I run a website for my wife and although we have a fairly secure system, we still get spammers, registering to our forums section. So far we have been doing things the manual way, which was to either ban I.P. Addresses or E-mail accounts or E-Mail domains. Things have worsened to the point that we get 20-30 Spammers registering a day. So doing some research based on people spamming our site we have done the following.

If you go to http://www.blockacountry.com/ you can generate a text based on Country's which you would like to block and than can upload or add to you're .htaccess file. Code looks something like this.

Code: Select all

<Limit GET HEAD POST>
order allow,deny

deny from 58.2.0.0/16
deny from 58.68.0.0/17
deny from 58.146.96.0/19

allow from all
</LIMIT>

So what this does is allow everyone to read forum topics, but they cant post or try to register.

Situation could be a bit different when it comes to Remix64 but in my case... I had to block China and India as they seem to be where most of our Spammer friends come from. So those country's are blocked. People from there can read but wont be able to join.

As I said you guys may already know this, but I thought it might be helpfull info.

[LMan]

Helpful indeed... I'll consider employing something like this. Thanks m8!

[Analog-X64]

No problem.. I will report back in a couple of weeks to let you know how its working.