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Re: Emails Blocks
  • 2007/7/4 10:54

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aswell as enabling the RBL Plugin for Protector.



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BDW
Re: To Admin - Spammer Targeting Xoops sites
  • 2007/7/4 10:51

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Actually, the most commen factor has been the website address (in the signature on the profile) and the IP address in the "New Registered User" email you get when they signed on.

The first IP address was 72.36.233.67 which other people had stated on here.

The abuser is now using another IP address to sign up.

82.208.60.42

And as far as i can see none of these IP addresses have been entered into the posts.

So im gathering that these are the origin IP's



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BDW
Re: IP Address...
  • 2007/7/4 10:39

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Have you installed Protector 3.04 with RBL plugin enabled?

Also, do you allow anonymous users to post comments, if so then disable it and only allow registered.

The RBL plugin will check RBL databases for IP addresses which are known to be spammers. The owners of the IP addresses have to contact the RBL owners to get their IP addresses removed.

Also, when the user signed up you may have got an email from your website (if you had it turned on in admin) saying this and it will contain the IP address of the abuser which would be found in the emails headers (only ban this IP address if you are sure that this is the abusers IP address).



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Re: Project Leader: Catzwolf
  • 2007/7/3 20:26

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Hey Catz, you know you would have my support m8.

I've known you for years (even before xoops) and have always been very helpful and easy to talk to.

Barry



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BDW
Re: To Admin - Spammer Targeting Xoops sites
  • 2007/7/3 19:19

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aye, but when the bot/spammer comes to the site they are access your XOOPS site and queries are being made already.

with .htaccess file the bot/spammer is blocked before XOOPS is is even accessed thus not using XOOPS and making queries.

Less usage of the database from bots is much better in my opinion.



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Re: Banning top-level domains
  • 2007/7/3 19:02

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yip, its mr george-walker-bush again.

See my update in the other stickeyd post



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BDW
Re: Banning top-level domains
  • 2007/7/3 18:45

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Yes it will probably ban all .info address.

This is not a good idea as you may ban loads of valid registrations.



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BDW
Re: To Admin - Spammer Targeting Xoops sites
  • 2007/7/3 18:41

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Heres something for you to ponder on.

Ive been testing something out on 2 of my sites.

Site 1:

Has Captcha on registration
Has not banned the list of email addresses from abuser
Has RBL plugin for protector running

Site 2:

Doesnt not have captcha
Has banned the list of email addresses from abuser
RBL plugin for protector disabled



The abuser we have all been talking about has managed to sign up to Site 2 even with all the email address banned.

So here is a list of things I would apply (this is only my opinion tho, what you do is up to you).

1. Install Protector
2. Enable RBL plugin for protector (may slow site down, if its impairs your site performance the simply disable)
3. Install Captcha on registration (Also have a form available that people with Visual Impairement can fill in to sign up)
4. If a Spammer signs up, check the IP address of the sender in the email you get when a user signs up and ban the IP block using .htaccess file. In the case we have been talking about the senders IP address always matches the main IP used to spam and not the multiple addresses.
5. You may want to consider using .htaccess to ban ip adresses instead of protector as protector uses your MySQL database (dont know if it uses it when checking banned IP's, can someone confirm). You may not want unwanted IP's to make queries to your database especially if they are bots.



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Re: googlerank.info hack - help!
  • 2007/6/6 9:57

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Quote:

deano42 wrote:

The site is www.blmra.co.uk, my virus scanner catches it every time. Although look at your own risk, it trys to install a trojan.


BTW, just a wee warning, if you knew there was a Trojan on your website you should have closed it to the public.

How many peoples computers has it infected that visited your site? they can sue you if they find out you knew about it.



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Re: Protector 3 log entry: what does it mean?
  • 2007/6/6 9:45

  • BDW

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I have it installed the RBL plugin and i havent seen any slowness in the performance of posts.

i tested out on my test site first before applying it and it seemed fine to use it.




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