Posted in : Spam Trap
Following up from my "hang the wanker" game I just thought I'd share some of the results. Out of the 1,500+ spam attempts I've received in the last 24 hours alone, one ip in particular was responsible for almost 80% of them and is the reason for this post. The ip in particular is 81.177.14.26 and following a chat with Danny he found out that it was part of an ip block ( 81.177.14 / 81.177.15 ) for a russian host (no suprises there then).
From looking at the logs of various sites on a multitude of servers I was deeply dissapointed to discover that it wasn't me that was popular, this wanker hits every server we checked! So, the best advice I can give you is this. For those of you who run windows servers then I advise you hit IIS and ban the whole bloody lot of them ( you can find instructions here ). If you have a website hosted on a linux box then I'd advise that you add the following to your htaccess to stop this tit from wasting your bandwidth and cpu :-
Code:
order allow,deny | |
deny from 81.177.14. | |
deny from 81.177.15. | |
allow from all |
¥
Trackback URL (right click and copy shortcut/link location)
Trackback url for this post
Note : This trackback url is time limited so use it within 30 minutes or the SpamHound will snarl at you.
http://innervisions.org.uk/z/?k=3634216263310323858d95a87cb770c6b2a47c8b73e95133e
Posts : 327
Joined : 04/04/05
Reply to comment 13850 by Gary