Forum owners and hosts, Block this IP

[Cam.]

We had somebody with the IP address 81.95.151.50 create 4 accounts on Hexcetera.net and post porn adverts. I suggest you block it to stop spam on your forum :)

[GlennBeforeTime]

Thanks NetXHosting. +Rep

[abeer42]

Thanks for the information; I will definitely block him from hosting websites with my company.

[Cam.]

And this one too... 81.95.151.131

[RadixHosting]

Those are called spambots mate, there are tens of thousands of them out there. Are you going to post the IP address of each spambot that hits your forum? Good luck with that :p. Others blocking them is no solution and a waste of time. There are too much of them out there.

[PH-Kev]

Seems to have really picked up though... Used to see a few a day but its getting ridiculous.. they even start confirming their email addresses lol

[RadixHosting]

You'll need CAPTCHA in combination with at least one other anti-spam system.

[Cam.]

Those are called spambots mate, there are tens of thousands of them out there. Are you going to post the IP address of each spambot that hits your forum? Good luck with that :p. Others blocking them is no solution and a waste of time. There are too much of them out there.

Lol, Ill try :p. Na, I just thought it would be a good one to post :).

[GlennBeforeTime]

Mate, they can get through anything. Depends on how much money they are willing to waste on this form of advertising... Normally a lot!

[Cam.]

Yeah, And anyways why would they bother, They know they will just get deleted...

[RadixHosting]

Mate, they can get through anything. Depends on how much money they are willing to waste on this form of advertising... Normally a lot!

It's like email spamfilters. The more techniques you use, the better your results will be. If you manage to filter 90-95% of all incoming spam using things like CAPTCHA it would be good. Something that is currently very good for blocking spam bots is animated GIF image verification: the letters/numbers you have to type kind of dance around randomly, or move up and down etc. Many spambot software packages aren't equipped for this yet.


Yeah, And anyways why would they bother, They know they will just get deleted...

Why do any spammers bother if they know most of their spam mails will end up filtered and another big part will get manually deleted? Because it is a cheap way of advertising, and it is an EFFECTIVE way of advertising. You must realize that A LOT of people still read those spam mails and click the links. The main reason why spam still exists is because it works. Not everyone just ignores/removes spam, unfortunately.

Same counts for such blog/forum spam: Such spam botnets post thousands of spam messages per minute. By the time they are all manually deleted by the owners of these forums/blogs, people WILL have already looked at them and clicked on them.