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Posted 07 March 2009 - 01:41 PM
I have recently gotten loads of spammers on my forum. They are not spambots so they have no problems getting through my spam protection on registration. I have checked out my site traffic and they all seem to come from a spam site, a so called "work from home" site: typegetrich[dot]com
What can I do to stop them from spamming my forum? All I do at the moment is deleting their posts and the spam accounts. But they keep coming back!
I appreciate any help I can get. Thanks!
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Getting loads of spammers from a certain site
what can I do to keep the spammers away?
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Posted 07 March 2009 - 05:47 PM
The only thing I can think of is blocking the posters IP's.
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Posted 07 March 2009 - 06:18 PM
Try blocking people from that domain in the .htaccess?
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Posted 07 March 2009 - 07:10 PM
QUOTE (Sam Granger @ Mar 7 2009, 06:47 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
The only thing I can think of is blocking the posters IP's.
Good idea. The problem is its different ips every time.
QUOTE (Meshach @ Mar 7 2009, 07:18 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
Try blocking people from that domain in the .htaccess?
I can do that? How?
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Posted 07 March 2009 - 07:40 PM
QUOTE (Meshach @ Mar 7 2009, 07:18 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
Try blocking people from that domain in the .htaccess?
Great suggestion! Didn't think about that!
Right, what you do is create a file named .htaccess and place it in your root directory (public_html, www or whatever) - basically where your homepage index file is.
the htaccess file should contain:
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RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} ^http(s)?://(www\.)?typegetrich.com.*$ [NC]
RewriteRule .* http://www.disney.com [R,L]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} ^http(s)?://(www\.)?typegetrich.com.*$ [NC]
RewriteRule .* http://www.disney.com [R,L]
If you wonder what the disney thing is, I'm just sending them to disney land
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Posted 07 March 2009 - 08:00 PM
Will actually build you a system I think, that blocks all IP's directly that come to your site from typegetrich.
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Posted 07 March 2009 - 08:22 PM
You'd have to be a pretty dumb spammer to have your referrer being the url that you're trying to spam!
There are some really nice plugins for forums. vBulletin has MonkeyStop and I'm sure IPB would have something similar.
There are some really nice plugins for forums. vBulletin has MonkeyStop and I'm sure IPB would have something similar.
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Posted 07 March 2009 - 08:43 PM
QUOTE (Peter @ Mar 7 2009, 09:22 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
You'd have to be a pretty dumb spammer to have your referrer being the url that you're trying to spam!
There are some really nice plugins for forums. vBulletin has MonkeyStop and I'm sure IPB would have something similar.
There are some really nice plugins for forums. vBulletin has MonkeyStop and I'm sure IPB would have something similar.
Didn't know plugins like that existed. Cool!
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Posted 07 March 2009 - 08:47 PM
QUOTE (Sam Granger @ Mar 7 2009, 08:40 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
Great suggestion! Didn't think about that!
Right, what you do is create a file named .htaccess and place it in your root directory (public_html, www or whatever) - basically where your homepage index file is.
the htaccess file should contain:
If you wonder what the disney thing is, I'm just sending them to disney land.
Right, what you do is create a file named .htaccess and place it in your root directory (public_html, www or whatever) - basically where your homepage index file is.
the htaccess file should contain:
CODE
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} ^http(s)?://(www\.)?typegetrich.com.*$ [NC]
RewriteRule .* http://www.disney.com [R,L]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} ^http(s)?://(www\.)?typegetrich.com.*$ [NC]
RewriteRule .* http://www.disney.com [R,L]
If you wonder what the disney thing is, I'm just sending them to disney land
. Thank you so much!
QUOTE (Peter @ Mar 7 2009, 09:22 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
You'd have to be a pretty dumb spammer to have your referrer being the url that you're trying to spam!
There are some really nice plugins for forums. vBulletin has MonkeyStop and I'm sure IPB would have something similar.
There are some really nice plugins for forums. vBulletin has MonkeyStop and I'm sure IPB would have something similar.
Ahh yes. If I had a larger board with a bit more traffic it would have been harder to find the source of the spam. Sometimes its good to be small!
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Posted 08 March 2009 - 06:18 PM
QUOTE (Simon @ Mar 7 2009, 01:10 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
Good idea. The problem is its different ips every time.
I can do that? How?
I can do that? How?
Mr. Granger's tutorial is impressive.
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