Preventing unwanted content from being posted on a website.
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Forum Spam Question. Why are Chinese hackers posting tiny images on my forum
My forum is getting attacked by spammers with Chinese IP's.
Replies are created to discussion topics, always short responses and along with the response an image is inserted using forum code which is ...
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5answers
169 views
How to prevent common spam on a WordPress blog [duplicate]
Right from the day I installed WordPress on my site, I started getting spam comments/trackbacks. I have also prevented anonymous comments. I get the following email whenever a new spam is posted:
...
2
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1answer
162 views
Gmail is marking my emails as SPAM. However, ISnotSPAN marks it as not-spam
I'm sending an email through my application code.
The email gets into my gmail spam folder.
However, a test of the same email in ISnotSPAM is marked as non-spam.
My application is using Sendgrid to ...
0
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1answer
67 views
Why am I getting random comments with just “door.txt;10” as the content?
I have my own comment system with some rudimentary spam protection. Recently I started getting a few comments that appear to be automated with the name "XlsUoIGh" and the content "doors.txt;10"
I ...
2
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2answers
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Spambots looking for phpmyadmin and more
I inherited a couple of sites that send the webmaster an email with each 404 error. I get a smattering of errors each day, but there are times when I'll get dozens, even hundreds, of errors from these ...
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2answers
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How to weaken spam attacks from XRumer
Though this topic : How do spambots work? is related and enlightening but it talks about general spam logic. Moreover it is really difficult to follow many anti-spam measures mentioned in it in case ...
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2answers
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phpbb banning multiple users by username/email
On phpbb, we usually select many user names and put it in the ban list. This is fine. but here's my key question:
Are these banned users banned by their user names only OR emails OR both?
If they're ...
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0answers
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Sending Emails via Google SMTP - after some time quit working
on a website I use PHPMailer to send automated registration emails, etc and also a newsletter-tool (which loops through the emails and sends them one by one).
Also, I configured in Gmail under ...
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0answers
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blocking bad bots with robots.txt in 2012 [closed]
does it still work good? I have this:
# Generated using http://solidshellsecurity.com services
# Begin block Bad-Robots from robots.txt
User-agent: asterias
Disallow:/
User-agent: BackDoorBot/1.0
...
3
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4answers
482 views
Sending HTML to Gmail always lands in Spam
I am having an issue with sending HTML emails to Gmail. I can send them to Yahoo, Hotmail, RR, AOL, etc. with no problem at all, but when I send them to Gmail I get kicked to spam.
I have checked ...
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3answers
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How can I prevent spam on sites which I control?
This is a general, community wiki question to address all non-specific spam prevention questions.
If your question was closed as a duplicate of this question and you feel that the information ...
2
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2answers
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Dealing with spam by blocking URLs?
I run a giant community.
Many spammers will use link shorteners or .tk domains that 301 to their spam offer.
How are sites detecting the final domain and is this a viable solution to block spam?
ex. ...
3
votes
3answers
336 views
How to remove spam links from google?
My wordpress website got the pharma attack. Now there are lots of spam links on my website indexed by the Google. Is there possiblilty to remove these links from the Google using robots.txt file or ...
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3answers
195 views
What do big websites do about spam emails to the support department?
My website's support email address is starting to get a lot of spam emails to it, what do big companies do about this?
3
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4answers
354 views
Silverstripe: How can I disable comments?
My client site is built in Silverstripe, there is a news page, and it allows people to leave comments. Unfortunately we've got loads of spam emails. I'm new to this, is there any way we can disable ...
1
vote
2answers
135 views
How does Google prevent GA accounts from being spammed [closed]
Since the Google Analytics snippet is available in the source code of the page (e.g. below is stackexchange's)
<script type="text/javascript">var ...
3
votes
1answer
2k views
Gmail is marking my emails as SPAM - Please help [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How could I prevent my mail from being recognized as spam?
gmail is marking my emails as SPAM
I used the great service: isNOTspam.com to check my email against spam
I ...
3
votes
1answer
75 views
Strategy to prevent spammers from taking advantage of “Invite by email” feature?
We are developing a web application, and we would like to make it very easy and effective for our users to invite their friends, family and colleagues to view and interact with their content on the ...
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0answers
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Moderator with no power to fix spam bot issue [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How can I prevent spam on sites which I control?
I think this is the correct site to post this.
So I'm a moderator (not administrator) on anddev.org and it's completely ...
4
votes
3answers
107 views
Stopping comment spam with links(need suggestion) [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How can I prevent comment spam on sites which I control?
After bearing 1 year spammy comments with links in those in my 10 sites, finally I've disallowed comment posting ...
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4answers
1k views
Best lightweight PHP/MySQL forum with spam-protection [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
What Forum Software should I use?
I have already searched and checked out posts like this and this but it isn't what I'm looking for.
I'm looking for a lightweight ...
0
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3answers
3k views
How to avoid getting spam through a website?
We seem to be getting A LOT of email spam, we have a combination of the email addresses as mailto links and contact forms that send to the same address.
What measures can we put in place that will ...
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2answers
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Is it possible to block traffic originating from a specific country?
My personal website is currently getting a lot of spam comments at the moment, and most of them originate from Russia (I've used Google Analytics to identify the traffic, and a lot of the links link ...
4
votes
3answers
252 views
Site being repeatedly hacked: any useful tips for tracking down entry point?
I'm suffering from a spam hack where my site periodically starts to show Viagra spam to Google and other spiders. The method of the hack is basically that my .htaccess file gets modified to route all ...
0
votes
1answer
171 views
How to protect the contact us page from spammers? Even using captcha, validation etc I sitll receive spam letters
I have on my site, every field validation + captcha protection + math validation + server scripting validation, but still this a spammer keeps sending me spam mails. Is there any better smarter ...
0
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2answers
378 views
Sudden connection problems with Akismet
I've had the Akismet anti-spam plugin installed and working great on two of my non-commercial Wordpress blogs for the past couple of months. Both sites are using my same API key.
Today, on one blog ...
2
votes
2answers
548 views
How can I reduce the number of spammers registering with my phpBB site?
I have a site which runs phpBB, on this site I have
enabled user authentication through email when registering
enabled captcha
However I still get spam users every 20 to 30 minutes.
Is there ...
7
votes
3answers
1k views
Prevent spam using Honey Pots
I am really curious about how to prevent comment spam in a forum using a honey pot trap for spam bots.
What if CSS and javascript is turned off in a browser?
Do you see any other disadvantages in ...
1
vote
1answer
62 views
What is the most time-effective way to monitor & manage threats from bots and/or humans?
I'm usually overwhelmed by the amount of tools that hosting companies provide to track & quantify traffic data and statistics. I'm equally overwhelmed by the countless flavors of malicious ...
3
votes
2answers
103 views
Why do spammers use CELESTRON NEXTAR 6SE?
I am running a website for a volunteer organization that hosts an annual event. There is a form where people can volunteer to bring items for the event.
All too frequently I get spam from users ...
1
vote
0answers
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What's a good way to keep spam out of 'anonymous' submission websites? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Make your site anti-bot?
I'm trying to do everything I can to prevent spammers from just pasting crap all over my forum websites. People get incentivized by video games ...
0
votes
1answer
60 views
How to tell the world that I'm not an spammer?
In this question, I just found out that my website address has been reported as spam, by services like Akismet. However, I'm not really an spammer. I'm a web developer, and I'm not selling any product ...
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8answers
345 views
Effective captcha solutions [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How can I prevent spam on sites which I control?
ReCaptcha is all the rage at the moment,
Based on customer/user feedback, what other captcha or general human ...
2
votes
2answers
691 views
Has anybody earned $0.25+ from each of a captcha (on your website) passing?
I am a real dummy in web monetizing schemes.
[ 1 ] informs that a captcha vendor:
"charges a fee of about 25 cents to 50 cents for each form that is filled out using a Type-In ad [captcha]... ...
3
votes
1answer
365 views
Can randomly-generated field names help avoid SPAM bots?
If I were to generate my field names randomly each time a contact form was rendered, would that help prevent SPAM bots from recognizing the fields? Can they read label text?
4
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2answers
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my domain Emails are marked as SPAM in gmail ?? How to Solve this issue
At pro webmasters I searched for an issue which relates to spammed domain list for sending emails which end up in the Spam box in Gmail. I found the link something like below:
...
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1answer
94 views
Need help for stopping spam inquiries [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Make your site anti-bot?
I am not a web developer, nor have I the required knowledge to grasp this situation.
I have a small company with a modest web site where I ...
0
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0answers
105 views
phpBB3 antispam: mod for “patrolling” the forum? [closed]
I've been working on various antispam measure in a phpBB3-based forum I host. Now I was thinking of an extension/mod that ties in with editing of posts (and later perhaps signatures/profiles) in that ...
4
votes
3answers
472 views
How to tell whether spammers are bots or humans?
How can you tell if the people that are spamming your forum or website are in fact bots or human spammers?
Please note that the question is not about preventing spammers. It is to determine if the ...
1
vote
3answers
417 views
Best way to block “comment spam” postings to web forms? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Make your site anti-bot?
I have a custom web form on my PHP-based site.
Recently it is getting a regular stream of comment-spam postings from a few specific IP ...
1
vote
4answers
181 views
Recommended Spam Best Practices [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How can I prevent spam on sites which I control?
Are there any recommended admin tools or interfaces for reviewing and moderating spam on a community-driven UGC site?
2
votes
1answer
92 views
Spam prevention through IP tracking
I am building a website with user generated comments. In order to implement user moderation/spam-protection, users have the ability to mark comments as spam. When one comment is marked as spam, I want ...
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1answer
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How to get ip-address out of SPAMHAUS blacklist?
I frequently read that it is possible to remove individual ip-addresses from SPAMHAUS blacklisting.
OK. Here is 91.205.43.252 (91.205.43.251 - 91.205.43.253) used by back3.stopspamers.com ...
6
votes
1answer
254 views
How to ban registrations from TOR exits?
I am getting far too many fake registrations through TOR exits. I would like to block these registrations like major sites do. What is the proper way to do that?
6
votes
3answers
321 views
When using email as login name, what precautions should I take for registration?
When your registration form is using a user ID that is the same as their email address, I'm somewhat concerned over spammers using the "User name is in use" as a means to validate the existence of an ...
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3answers
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mailto link is a spam flag, what is the simplest way to explain this to business person
Do you agree that it is generally bad practice to include mail to links and emails in websites because of spam and the various malicious agents that search and use emails?
If so how could I explain ...
