JBCR Virtual Solutions Blog

Archive for June, 2008

Fur­ther to my last post the spam con­tin­ues. It seems to only come in once a day, at this point, but cer­tainly a huge amount of links and writes to the blog itself. It starts with:

“u style=“display none” News.…..

Anoy­one know about this?

I cer­tainly do get the ben­e­fit for them — does hurt us doesn’t it.

I am run­ning out of ideas — Com­ments are very welcomed.

Jan

I am almost con­cerned to post what we have done here in case spam­mers read it. So I am going to add the last thing we have done. 24 hours later there has been no spam in the header or footer — but — it’s not enough time to con­sider our­selves out of the woods yet but this last instal­la­tion of a plug-in seems to be helping.

It’s called WP Ban: http://lesterchan.net/portfolio/programming.php

Ban users by IP, IP Range, host name, user agent and refer­rer url from vis­it­ing your WordPress’s blog. It will dis­play a cus­tom ban mes­sage when the banned IP, IP range, host name, user agent or refer­rer url tries to visit you blog. You can also exclude cer­tain IPs from being banned. There will be sta­tis­tics recorded on how many times they attempt to visit your blog. It allows wild­card match­ing too. By Lester ‘GaMerZ’ Chan.

Best way to get info on poten­tial IP’s to ban is to check your server log files and then type a few of the sus­pi­cious ones into your fav search engine then check the results. When we did this we found forums and blogs with ready to copy ban lists. We also went to Spamhaus and got a list of the top spam host addresses.

If any­one else has info please do pass it on for all of us.

Jan