Got heavily spammed today, need advice!

[matthewd5]

Originally Posted by RichieBoy67

Spammers can always get through if they want to join your site and verify email manually no matter what spam protection you have.

I would not allow new members to post links and use spam o matic in addition to the other mods to help you create a new usergroup where no linking is allowed just for new members. You can use the promotion system instead if you want as Ozzy mentioned.

## If you see a few ip's spamming the hell out of you go and ban them from your server completely. There are some things you can do with your robots.txt file and your htaccess as well to help.

Not sure if it is listed on Ozzies page but I would also use a mod that is here to block Tor access. I am not sure if spammers use it at all but most hackers do so why not block them too?

--------------- Added 26 Jan 2014 at 20:11 ---------------



Great list Ozzy! I use almost everyone of those.

I just joined your site.

Thanks for your reply, I don't know what Tor is?

Matthew