How to block a user or ip from a country

Has anyone had issues with these idiots spammers your site?

All they are doing is attempting to prompt their stupid site. They are filling our form to see if we or our users will visit.

Site is www.mambasearch.com

Simply Crap site

Logs show China net.gwbn.cq.cn

How to we block them?

I really dont wont to block all of china just these guys.

 

here's what i do in .htaccess :


<Files ~ "\.(cgi|pl)$">
ErrorDocument 403 /redirect-spam.php
order allow,deny
allow from all
deny from xxx.xxx.x.xxx
</Files>

the first line tells the server that if anyone with IP address 'xxx.xxx.x.xxx' tries to access files that have extension .pl or .cgi then execute a file called 'redirect-spam.php'.. which is located in root.

redirect-spam.php is the following code :

<?
header("Location: http://www.somewebsite.com/");
?>

so the offending user will be taken to some other website.

ps if you have multiple ips you want to ban, then list the ips one after the other as in :


<Files ~ "\.(cgi|pl)$">
ErrorDocument 403 /redirect-spam.php
order allow,deny
allow from all
deny from xxx.xxx.x.xxx
deny from xxx.xxx.x.xxx
deny from xxx.xxx.x.xxx
deny from xxx.xxx.x.xxx
</Files>

 

Yes looks a good option

Put a ip sniffer script on the form page to monitor

Seems more than one ip range?

 

wht u run? a forum? if so there is a option of banning IP in ACP

 

Scripted a login form to stop any guest from posting. This seems to have worked.

 

If you are hosted on a unix server you can block IP's from your Cpanel.
It's in the Site Management under IP deny manager

 

http://www.analysespider.com/geo-targeting/geo-targeting.html

You can also use this script to redirect people if they are from a certain country.

 

Hi,

A fast and simple solution is to block your spam visitors. First try to find out from which country they come. Depending on this you can use an .htaccess file to block traffic from this ipaddress, or if you want you can block a whole country. The site located at blockacountry.com can help you with this last procedure. Simply select which countries you want to block, press the okay button and the website creates an .htaccess document for you. Upload this file to your server and your annoying spam visitors should be history.

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