I use mailposts on all my wikis, so usually do see pretty quickly when
this robot (or army of them - really has to be, don'tcha think?) has
hit a page. Then I go in and add an edit password with an brief
explanation on the page of what it is and why it has to be there.
I use 'human'.<br>
<br>
Actually, I'm thinking of this as a handy little utility, helping me
spot the vulnerable pages on my sites. I'm not using any
blocklists or list of forbidden words - just the mailposts and simple
password scheme above, and it's never used the password to do any
further damage. knock wood.<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 3/28/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Neil Herber</b> <<a href="mailto:nospam@eton.ca">nospam@eton.ca</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
At 2006-03-28 01:37 PM -0500, David Spitzley is rumored to have said:<br>>Over the last week or so my website has become a target of a<br>>spammer, and I'm not sure what to do about it. I just checked one<br>>of the source files, and he's using dozens of different IP
<br>>addresses, so I don't really have a lot to go on in blocking<br>>him. I'm currently using the mtblacklist recipe, but it ccurrently<br>>isn't blocking him. Any suggestions?<br>><br>>Here's one of the affected pages:
<br>><br>><a href="http://www.davidaspitzley.org/gpmiwiki/index.php?n=Main.HomePage">http://www.davidaspitzley.org/gpmiwiki/index.php?n=Main.HomePage</a><br><br>David<br><br>The same spammer has been hammering my wiki for the last 2 weeks. I
<br>have managed to defeat him so far. My advice:<br><br>1) Drop MTblacklist - you don't get to control the entries<br>2) Install Blocklist2 - email me privately for a short list of<br>keywords to get rid of this guy<br>
2a) Use the mail notification feature to see how well it works!<br>3) Consider a simple edit password - on my site, the password on the<br>Guest pages is "please" and the password prompt even tells you that,<br>
but the spammer is too stupid/lazy/impatient (choose one) to enter it<br><br>Blocking by IP for this guy is pointless - I have seen dozens of<br>different IPs, so I suspect it is a drove of zombies.<br><br>Blocking by key word or partial URL (there are not that many) is very
<br>effective.<br><br>I would also suggest installing the Mailposts script so that you are<br>notified when someone is adding content to your site.<br><br><br>Neil<br><br>Neil Herber<br>Corporate info at <a href="http://www.eton.ca/">
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