Stupid Spammer?

[v12kid]

Some guys just dont get it. i think this screen shot will sum it up for you LOL

http://i301.photobucket.com/albums/n...dom/xrumer.jpg


what did he think? I would approve his account haha!

for that dont know, Xrumer is a forum spamming software used by these guys and for some reason many think we dont know what it is

[iogames]

maybe is the poor kid's name :'(

[UncoderMom]

LOL Not the smartest spammer!

I didnt know about Xrumer until about 4 months ago when some one was using to to spam one of my sites. jerk-wads!

[v12kid]

yea, these jerks just don't get it but its the net, we can only do our best

wish I could ban entire countries from visiting my forum, would help the spam a lot

[UncoderMom]

I added some questions and answers and that seems to have done away with them. My one site was getting like 5 a day.

[iogames]

Originally Posted by v12kid

yea, these jerks just don't get it but its the net, we can only do our best

wish I could ban entire countries from visiting my forum, would help the spam a lot

Ooops I forgot how... but was discussed here a couple of months, yes it can be done...

[vbplusme]

.htaccess is the typical way to ban blocks of IP addresses. Although vB has a ban IP feature, I think it only does singles, not blocks. If you were going to ban all the IP in Senegal, for example, you could add the following to your .htaccess file:

<Limit GET HEAD POST>
order allow,deny
deny from 41.208.128.0/18
deny from 196.1.92.0/24
deny from 196.1.93.0/24
deny from 196.1.94.0/24
deny from 196.1.95.0/24
deny from 196.1.96.0/24
deny from 196.1.97.0/24
deny from 196.1.98.0/24
deny from 196.1.99.0/24
deny from 196.1.100.0/24
deny from 196.207.192.0/18
deny from 213.154.64.0/19
allow from all
</LIMIT>

You can get the IP addresses for most of the Spammer Bad Boy Countries HERE


HTH

[nochkin]

I was logging about 25-30 spam attempts per day on my forum, but after adding a simple captcha everything is much better now.
Additionally, most spam bots has the same pattern of crawling problems so I detect those and ban ips automatically.

I can't restrict anonymous posts due to the nature of my website (I have support forum).

[iogames]

but there was a site? Aaah! http://www.ipdeny.com/ipblocks/