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[Dhrobonil] stop spam | Dhrobonil: In most situations, this tip wouldn’t be too much of a good idea; spammers will fake often their IP, but if there is one IP that is particularly bugging you, then the code below will block them from visiting your site –

[Veronica Robinson's Blog] Installation and configuration of WordPress 2.8.4 « Veronica ...: What can be done to reduce comment and trackback spam on WordPress? #. Check out the Akismet plug-in. It does a great job of eliminating most comment and trackback spam. We did a write-up of Akismet over at the Laughing Squid Hosting Blog ... RewriteCond /REPLACE_WITH_WEB_DIRECTORY/wp-content/cache/supercache/%{HTTP_HOST}/$1/index.html -f; You can test that your super-cache plugin is working by loading your site, refreshing twice and the viewing the source in your browser ...

[RagePank SEO] Stopping Manual Spam on your Blog | RagePank SEO: spammers will fake often their IP, but if there is one IP that is particularly bugging you, then the code below will block them from visiting your site - instert it into your .htaccess file in your blog's root, changing the second line to include the IP that you wish to ban.

[Holy Shmoly!] Holy Shmoly! » More ways to stop spammers and unwanted traffic: I, too have been plagued by spam (100,000 in one day), and tried to use this stuff. However, I put some of this stuff in my htaccess file (assuming that is where it is supposed to go–it never says in the post) and was blocked from my own site.

[Tips and Tricks] Cool WordPress .htaccess Tips to Boost Your WordPress Site's ...: Hi Ron, If you look at the spam blocking rules, you’ll notice it’ll only block POST requests, on the URI wp-comments-post.php. Since spiders/crawlers don’t do that, you have no fear of blocking the search engines out of your site.

[Randsco] Randsco - Comment & Trackback anti-SPAM Script: By banning IPs at the Apache (or whatever) server level, repeat spammers cannot mount a DOS attack by, for example, repeatedy calling a VALID url on your site, which unless you're only using static files, each call involves filesystem and database calls. Multiply that by many thousands and your bandwidth could get burned quickly and your site could become unavailable as it gets over-taxed.

[Pointless Rants] Open a can of spam on 194.8.75.149 Pointless Rants: If I keep getting spam visits or comments from this IP I’m going to send a report to abuse@dragonara.net, and if you’re getting spammed by this IP I suggest you do the same!

[Comments for AskApache] .htaccess Plugin Blocks Spam, Hackers, and Password Protects Blog: RewriteCond %{REQUEST_METHOD} =POSTRewriteCond %{HTTP:VIA}%{HTTP:FORWARDED}%{HTTP:USERAGENT_VIA}%{HTTP:X_FORWARDED_FOR}%{HTTP:PROXY_CONNECTION} !^$ [OR]RewriteCond %{HTTP:XPROXY_CONNECTION}%{HTTP:HTTP_PC_REMOTE_ADDR}%{HTTP:HTTP_CLIENT_IP} !^$RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/(wp-login.php|wp-admin/|wp-content/plugins/|wp-includes/).* [NC]RewriteRule .* - [F,NS,L]

[Comments for Perishable Press] Block Spam by Denying Access to No-Referrer Requests • Perishable ...: I’m using this code too, but looking up the IPs of spammers caught by Akismet and cross-referencing those same IPs with my Apache logs, I’m seeing that the spammers are actually loading the posts and submitting via the actual form.

[AskApache Web Fire] Fight Blog Spam with Apache: RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^BlackWidow [OR]RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^Bot\ mailto:craftbot@yahoo.com [OR]RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^ChinaClaw [OR]RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^Custo [OR]RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^DISCo [OR]RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^Download\ Demon [OR]RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^eCatch [OR]RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^EirGrabber [OR]RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^EmailSiphon [OR]RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^EmailWolf [OR]RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^Express\ WebPictures [OR]RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^ExtractorPro [OR]RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^EyeNetIE [OR]RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^FlashGet [OR]RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^GetRight [OR]RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^GetWeb! [OR]RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^Go!Zilla [OR]RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^Go-Ahead-Got-It [OR]RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^GrabNet [OR]RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^Grafula [OR]RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^HMView [OR]RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} HTTrack [NC,OR]RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^Image\ Stripper [OR]RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^Image\ Sucker [OR]RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} Indy\ Library [NC,OR]RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^InterGET [OR]RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^Internet\ Ninja [OR]RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^JetCar [OR]RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^JOC\ Web\ Spider [OR]RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^larbin [OR]RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^LeechFTP [OR]RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^Mass\ Downloader [OR]RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^MIDown\ tool [OR]RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^Mister\ PiX [OR]RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^Navroad [OR]RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^NearSite [OR]RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^NetAnts [OR]RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^NetSpider [OR]RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^Net\ Vampire [OR]RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^NetZIP [OR]RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^Octopus [OR]RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^Offline\ Explorer [OR]RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^Offline\ Navigator [OR]RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^PageGrabber [OR]RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^Papa\ Foto [OR]RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^pavuk [OR]RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^pcBrowser [OR]RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^RealDownload [OR]RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^ReGet [OR]RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^SiteSnagger [OR]RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^SmartDownload [OR]RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^SuperBot [OR]RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^SuperHTTP [OR]RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^Surfbot [OR]RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^tAkeOut [OR]RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^Teleport\ Pro [OR]RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^VoidEYE [OR]RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^Web\ Image\ Collector [OR]RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^Web\ Sucker [OR]RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^WebAuto [OR]RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^WebCopier [OR]RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^WebFetch [OR]RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^WebGo\ IS [OR]RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^WebLeacher [OR]RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^WebReaper [OR]RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^WebSauger [OR]RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^Website\ eXtractor [OR]RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^Website\ Quester [OR]RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^WebStripper [OR]RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^WebWhacker [OR]RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^WebZIP [OR]RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^Wget [OR]RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^Widow [OR]RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^WWWOFFLE [OR]RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^Xaldon\ WebSpider [OR]RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^ZeusRewriteRule .

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