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 [b]80%[/b] of them and is the reason for this post. The ip in particular is [b]81.177.14.26[/b] 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 :-

order allow,deny
deny from 81.177.14.
deny from 81.177.15.
allow from all

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