On Wed, 2004-10-13 at 06:19, frankieh wrote: > Bryan Phinney wrote: > > Don't know if anyone else here is running Apache with web logs, or 'blogs' and > > has had trouble with referrer spam but I thought I would mention my latest > > experience. > > > > Blogs are one of the more interesting developments of the Internet and there > > are a lot of packages out there that allow people to maintain their own > > blogs. If you run Apache and host these packages, you may have noticed a lot > > of traffic recently as "marketers" try to adverise their web sites by > > throwing traffic at a blog and thereby moving their site to the top of the > > referrer's list. They are also hoping to increase their Google rank by > > increasing the number of sites that advertise links to their own sites. > > > > Mostly porn sites currently, but several others have been doing this. I > > recently got hit by someone operating (out of Texas, I think) who had several > > sites hosted at EV1 and was using various open proxies to refer traffic to my > > blog and increase his rank. Initially, I just figured out how to ban his > > sites from my referrer listing but I was really unsatisfied with that > > response since he kept hitting my site anyway with robots and it just wasn't > > very gratifying to me. I would have had problems blocking his traffic > > altogether since he was using various open proxies and switching them > > regularly, so I wanted to be able to focus exclusively on his traffic. He > > was also rotating the browser agent and so on, so blocking that would have > > been problematic as well. > > > > So, I finally did some research and figured out how to deny access to requests > > that contained certain keywords (including his web site domain names) in the > > request (referrer) which effectively resulted in him getting 403 errors > > rather than actually getting into my web page. After 2-3 days of him not > > getting into the site, I sent an email (to the admin account at one of the > > domains) and pointed out to him that he was wasting his time since I was > > blocking his spam bots and that he might do better to find an easier target. > > As of today, all the spam referrer traffic has stopped which I suspect means > > that he has given up. > > > > If anyone else is having this problem and runs Apache to host their own site, > > I can quickly show you how to do this (add a few lines to httpd2.conf) and > > you can block these out yourself. > > > > Yup, please do.. > > I have had about 200 comment spams added to my site in the last couple > of months.. so I setup my > router withi a blacklist and I've just been adding the nasty IP to that > blacklist. > > I also changed the blog over to comment moderation.. > > I'd prefer a better answer though, so I'd love to read about yours. > In fact if you like I can even turn it into something of a tute and put > it on the site for others to find. > > rgds > > Franki > Interesting thread; I'd like to learn how to do this as well
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