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limecity
Tracing Anonymous users - spammers

  • 2004/9/19 4:51

  • limecity

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Recently i am receiving several Emails which they send through the Contact module..

More or less, I call it a spam.

How can i trace the IP address of these ppl who abuse the contact form? They supplied with false email address which I am unable to trace.

Is there anyway? Using xoops? using cpanel? or anything to trace down these freaks.



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Dave_L
Re: Tracing Anonymous users - spammers

  • 2004/9/19 5:31

  • Dave_L

  • XOOPS is my life!

  • Posts: 2277

  • Since: 2003/11/7


This is untested, but adding the sender's IP address to the email body should be easy:

modules/contact/index.php

$adminMessage .= "n".$HTTP_SERVER_VARS['HTTP_USER_AGENT']."n";
[color=ff0000]$adminMessage .= "n".$HTTP_SERVER_VARS['REMOTE_ADDR']."n";[/color]

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limecity
Re: Tracing Anonymous users - spammers

  • 2004/9/19 5:58

  • limecity

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it worked! it worked!
thank you..

Okay.. now this brings me to another idea..

On the contact form module..
i want to show something like :

Your Ip address : 202.111.222.102 has been logged
Action will be taken on any abuse on this system.

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JasonMR
Re: Tracing Anonymous users - spammers

  • 2004/9/19 6:33

  • JasonMR

  • Just can't stay away

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  • Since: 2004/6/21


You could add this to contact/index.php:
Quote:

echo "Your Ip address : ";
echo $_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR'];
echo " has been logged!";
echo "
Action will be taken on any abuse on this system.";


But I'm not sure where to place it!

Hope it works for you.
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JasonMR
Re: Tracing Anonymous users - spammers

  • 2004/9/19 7:13

  • JasonMR

  • Just can't stay away

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  • Since: 2004/6/21


I've found a more "playful" solution at Mike's!

1- Take this code
Quote:

$img_number = imagecreate(275,25);
$backcolor = imagecolorallocate($img_number,102,102,153);
$textcolor = imagecolorallocate($img_number,255,255,255);

imagefill($img_number,0,0,$backcolor);
$number = " Your IP is $_SERVER[REMOTE_ADDR]";

Imagestring($img_number,10,5,5,$number,$textcolor);

header("Content-type: image/jpeg");
imagejpeg($img_number);
?>

and place it in a seperate file named ip_image.php, which should be saved it in your contact module folder (though depending on the url you provide in the img-tag!).

2- Edit contact/template/contact.html and place this code in the apropriate space
Quote:

IP Address has been logged!
Action will be taken on any abuse on this system.


3- under Sys Admin -> Modules, you will need to update your contact module, for changes to be entered into the templates stored in the DB, which are used by XOOPS (and not the actual template file)



I use contact+, but this is how it looks like on my site, after I've made a couple of changes to the image creating script, to suite my needs.
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limecity
Re: Tracing Anonymous users - spammers

  • 2004/9/19 7:49

  • limecity

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Yeah! it worked. Thanks~
Lols..

I hope XOOPS take this into consideration on implementing such thing into the core contact module.


One more thing.. how do you change the bg color and size of the picture?

$img_number = imagecreate(275,25);
$backcolor = imagecolorallocate($img_number,102,102,153);
$textcolor = imagecolorallocate($img_number,255,255,255);
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JasonMR
Re: Tracing Anonymous users - spammers

  • 2004/9/19 9:32

  • JasonMR

  • Just can't stay away

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  • Since: 2004/6/21


$img_number = imagecreate(275,25);

-> this pair represent the X , Y lengths

$backcolor = imagecolorallocate($img_number,102,102,153);
$textcolor = imagecolorallocate($img_number,255,255,255);

-> these tupples are hex-colors (255,255,255=white;0,0,0=black)

And if you wanted to ask: the border is a style attributed to the img tag:
style="border:1px outset #000044; vertical-align:middle;"


Having an option to select something like this to appear, would definetly be a nice thing! developers
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limecity
Re: Tracing Anonymous users - spammers

  • 2004/9/19 10:55

  • limecity

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  • Since: 2003/7/6 0


Lols..
why din i think of that.. ahaha..
i forgot its hex and kept on thinkin its Ip address
silly me..

btw.. maybe you can submit this as a contact module Hack.
then maybe it will catch the attention of the developers~


I am pretty sure many XOOPS user will find it useful.
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JasonMR
Re: Tracing Anonymous users - spammers

  • 2004/9/19 13:30

  • JasonMR

  • Just can't stay away

  • Posts: 655

  • Since: 2004/6/21


Agreed! https://xoops.org/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?viewmode=flat&topic_id=24682&forum=15
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