how to stop spammers visiting and loading up my bandwidth...?

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  1. #1
    Is their a tool or a plugin to block spammers from visiton my sites? They load up my bandwidth. Thank you.
     
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    samirj09 Well-Known Member

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    Hmm. If you know the IP addresses you can block them with a IP deny in your .htaccess file.
     
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    fmOzilla Active Member

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    Use Akismet it's best this is mine

    Akismet has protected your site from 269 spam comments already.
    There are 73 comments in your spam queue right now.
     
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    samirj09 Well-Known Member

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    That would only stop them from leaving spam. Not using up bandwidth.
     
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    fallen1 Peon

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    ok thank you...that solves 1 problem...

    and your right...

    i think its too much work...but i guess it has to be done...if their is no other way...:(

    thank you...
     
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    I don't think there is any such tool which can help you do this. You could try to block IP addresses but I don't think it would work. Just try blocking their comments with Akismet and slowly they would stop coming to your blog altogether.
     
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    thedark Well-Known Member

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    They should not load that much bandwidth, because they don't load images, js, styles, etc, they load only the main html. Try not showing that much content on the first page, and optimize your wordpress plugins. Maybe installing a cache plugin will help.
     
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