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Forum spam/bots, US IPs?
| Posted by Mike_A, 09-07-2012, 10:22 AM | | Recently my forums have been basically attacked by spam bots, most likely the new ****** spammer that has been released. Most of the spamming IPs are from chinese ISPs so there's not much I can do, but what about the US IPs from US hosting providers?
One of the more recent spamming has been coming from 199.15.234.138, which is an IP Strada LLC. Ip address. I have e-mailed them about this.
Does anyone have an effective way to block most of the forum spam? I've tried blocking IP ranges from partial areas of china, and adding registration captcha, registration questions, and a few paid modifications from stopforumspam.
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| Posted by MikeDVB, 09-08-2012, 01:30 PM | | Beyond what you're already doing, and manually monitoring/moderating your forums really there isn't a whole lot you can do. The 'good' bots can figure out ReCaptcha 2 and just about any other Captcha and/or they have a live person sitting and solving the Captchas for the bots.
Any compromised hosting account, server, or even home computer can be used as a spam-posting bot, so there really is no way to blanket block all of them.
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| Posted by SERVERIA, 09-08-2012, 01:45 PM | | I agree, currently there's no effective way to stop ****** and similar software. Report these IPs to the appropriate ISPs and to their upstreams if needed.
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| Posted by BestServerSupport, 09-09-2012, 04:19 AM | | I Would recommend you to do following:
1. Keep strong passwords of your admin logins & FTP.
2. Regularly update your forum to latest version available.
3. Scan your local machine with latest anti-virus software to protect against keyloggers, trojans.
4. Do not use third party insecure scripts.
5. Do not provide 777 permissions to files/folders.
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