[geeklog-devtalk] SPAM Article

[Andrew T. Scott]

Dirk Haun wrote:


>Vincent Furia wrote:

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>>Nothing I'd recommend to go into Geeklog

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>Agreed, but an interesting case study nonethless.

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>On a related note: Our special spammer friend has been very quiet

>recently - or so I thought. Sure, he's still doing his referrer spamming,

>but those are easily catched in a .htaccess.

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Dude, write stuff that you would put in .htaccess directly into the 
httpd.conf file (you might already know this). The server will need to 
spin the disk to check authentication when a .htaccess file exists and 
you don't want his since it impacts performance greatly. You should put 
all your access controls in httpd.conf within Directory, Location, or 
File, directives.

If you already know this, I"m sorry.

-Andrew


>Then, yesterday, I got a single trackback spam attempt on geeklog.info

>(which was blocked by the SpamX plugin). On closer inspection, I found

>another 20 attempts in my logfiles, and another batch from February 28th

>that had gone unnoticed. Or rather, that had been blocked silently.

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>Therefore, I'm now confident to say that this method here really works.

>Check it out: http://www.candygenius.com/spampop

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>It's only when our friend doesn't use that proxy that the SpamX plugin

>has to kick into action. Very nice and effective :-)

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>bye, Dirk

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