Guestbook Spammer driving me nuts

Discussion in 'Site & Server Administration' started by jebby, Apr 28, 2005.

  1. #1
    For over a week the same guy has been spamming the guestbook of a site I manage about 20 times a day. The guestbook script is kind of old so it doesn't log or block IPs. I've reported this to the abuse department of the server company that hosts the site the spammer is linking to. I've also added a meta tag so that the guestbook will no longer be indexed by search engines. Any other suggestions on how to stop this? It's a pain to keep removing these entries. One of the guy's websites is www. baikalguide . com. But there are a bunch of other similarly named sites that are all fake sites built purely for SEO purposes.
     
    jebby, Apr 28, 2005 IP
  2. T0PS3O

    T0PS3O Feel Good PLC

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    Try and find him in your log file (or tools like statcounter.com if you have such a thing installed). Then add his IP address in a htaccess file and DENY him.
     
    T0PS3O, Apr 28, 2005 IP
  3. Mia

    Mia R.I.P. STEVE JOBS

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    Why don't you just block him at your router? That our get a more intuative GB script that allows you to ban people like that.
     
    Mia, Apr 28, 2005 IP
  4. Corey Bryant

    Corey Bryant Texan at Heart

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    Does he use the same IP? Does the guestbook log those?
     
    Corey Bryant, Apr 28, 2005 IP
  5. jebby

    jebby Active Member

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    I'm not sure whether he uses the same IP but unfortunately the guestbook doesn't log IP addresses. The only statistics software for this particular site is Analog. This isn't the most comprehensive program but I banned the IP address that visits most frequently using .htaccess as per TOPS30's suggestion. Hopefully I didn't end up banning the website's biggest fan instead of the GB spammer. I guess I'll wait and see if I get more spam.
     
    jebby, Apr 28, 2005 IP
  6. SEbasic

    SEbasic Peon

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    Did you do a lookup on the IP to make sure it wasn't an SE bot...
     
    SEbasic, Apr 28, 2005 IP
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    J.D. Peon

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    Can't you just get this info from your access log?
     
    J.D., Apr 28, 2005 IP
  8. jebby

    jebby Active Member

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    Well the htaccess thing didn't work. I must have put the wrong IP.
     
    jebby, Apr 28, 2005 IP
  9. gatordun

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    Use centralops.net and look up the domain name and it will pull up a up address.
    If not then ping the site name for a ip address.
    With centralops.net it will list the batch of ip's he's in.
    Block the 1 ip or the whole batch.
     
    gatordun, Aug 12, 2005 IP
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    or may be you should use
    some kind of robot-protecition for your guestbook?

    generate picture with numbers and get users print it to identify them
     
    script909, Aug 18, 2005 IP