Spammers

[jkcerda]

any way to automatically prevent/block any IP's from China?15 in 2 weeks its a bit much.

[SEOvB]

You really dont want to block entire regions of IP's from accessing your site as thats not the solution (well it is, but not a good one) Instead try different forms of human verification methods, generally the recaptcha and the question and answer forms work really with random questions.

But yes, you'll need to find the chineese IP range, and then use wildcards to block the entire country off in the IP ban manager

[jkcerda]

the spammers that I have been getting seem to be bothering with all the verifications.

[SEOvB]

Im not real sure where to find the chinese IP address set at, but if you google it you're more than likely find it.

Then add the set to the IP ban manager, the best way would probably be with wild cards

[UKBusinessLive]

Here you go Buddy

You can use this site to download entire country ranges

http://www.ipdeny.com/ipblocks/


Hope this helps

Take care

[jkcerda]

Originally Posted by UKBusinessLive

Here you go Buddy

You can use this site to download entire country ranges

http://www.ipdeny.com/ipblocks/


Hope this helps

Take care

thank you.

[Jenkins]

i've had this issue as well, i just added the verification questions, and it seemed to slow them down.

[murekhalir]

yeah - to be honest all these spammers are chinese from china.

I was GOING to post about this issue right now, but i saw this.

is there effective ways on dealing with spam? I changed all verifications and etc. I even put confirmed email addresses and they still spam (once and a while).

I htink they are manual spam? Oh god, i dont want to see chinese sweat shops of spammage.

No offense.

I'm chinese myself, but american. AND I DONT LIKE THEM ON MY SITE. lol....

[UKBusinessLive]

Originally Posted by murekhalir

yeah - to be honest all these spammers are chinese from china.

I was GOING to post about this issue right now, but i saw this.


is there effective ways on dealing with spam? I changed all verifications and etc. I even put confirmed email addresses and they still spam (once and a while).

I htink they are manual spam? Oh god, i dont want to see chinese sweat shops of spammage.

No offense.


I'm chinese myself, but american. AND I DONT LIKE THEM ON MY SITE. lol....

Its a pain in the backside when it happens, if you don't really have chinese members (From China) on your board then ban the entire country you can do it from your forums AdminCP or even from your hosting CP.

I've deleted all china and russia from my site from my Cpanel also.

You can get all China IP addresses here http://www.ipdeny.com/ipblocks/data/countries/cn.zone

I don't think i'd be popular if i copied them all to this post

Good Luck, with the united fight against the spammers

[murekhalir]

meh - another chinese guy still broke through even after ip ban of all china.