I am still curious what difference it makes if Securi is sent to the error page when it hits register.php or not?

It seems Securi is scanning pages for malware and the error page shouldn't have any malware.

Or, does Securi know exactly what register.php is suppose to contain and they throw an error on their end if it contains anything else?

I believe they just check it for malware.

Hey Snog... Any plans to make the filter list one per line, so it has to be exact match to get caught? Example - just had a spammer register from "Biznet" but adding this to the filter is going to catch everything that has 'biz' or 'net' in the name.

Yeah that would be a optimal way to do it. :)

No it won't. It will catch BIZNET.

The entire word has to be matched. The word isn't broken down into smaller sections for detection. So bizmarknet would NOT be caught. But badbiznet would.

How then did we catch "monitor5.securi.net" using the word 'tor' in the filter?

The plain word 'tor' was in the list. That matched the tor in "monitor5.securi.net"

See the difference..

BIZNET

bizmarknet would NOT be caught.

but somethingbiznetelse would be.

Okay... Yep I get it.

With "Ban Spiders by User Agent" we don't get such matches, I assume because the definitions are line by line instead of separated by commas?

Well, no it's more because of the way they check for matches. I look for it in any part of the host name or user agent. They match the exact item.

I've found that doing it the way I do gives better protection overall. Mainly because if you decide you don't want any servers registering you just have to enter 'server'. That kills a good number of bots right off the bat. Another example would be rackcentre. Anything with that in the host name is a server. Listing each server from rackcentre would be a list 10 miles long. So with the way I do it, just entering it once kills them all.

Let me ask you this, can it be made to have each one on it's own line without a performance issue? It would be much easier to maintain the list that way.