How to block someones IP address?

11 years ago

Add this line on top of your header file, and enter the ipaddress.

<?php
$deny = array("000.000.000","000.000.001");
if (in_array ($_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR'], $deny)) {
header("location: http://www.google.com/");
exit();
}
?>

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sonzoy 11 years ago

if your host is not supporting .htaccess then use Nathan K PHP script otherwise changing the host will be always an advantage ....
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Kingfish85

11 years ago

Originally Posted by Ani86

HI,

I have been getting junk emails from automated bots on my website's form. I have installed a captcha and that worked for a while but a few days ago I started getting those annoying emails again.

I have the senders IP address. Is there a way to block the spammers IP address? My host is Yahoo and Yahoo does not support .htaccess.
(Trying to change hosting soon)

Is there a way to block the IP without using .htaccess?

1. The IP's will most likely always be different.

2. Yahoo doesn't support htaccess......yea, it's time to find a "real" web host.

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Ani86 11 years ago

They say that they support htaccess.txt not .htaccess

you think this will work if i use htaccess.txt ?
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chrislim2888

11 years ago

Personally, I'm not recommend the blocking at page level. Therefore, if possible change the hosting will be an option to consider, for long term solution.

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Ani86 11 years ago

I called yahoo again they said .htaccess is same as their htacess.txt they dont put the (.) in the beginning but instead they use .txt the tech guy said its the same thing.

Now how can I block the IP address in the htaccess file. does anyone know how to write the code for that?

and I'd like to learn more about Nathan K's code. anyone got a link that explains the code?

I wrote this code but not sure if its correct or not

<Limit GET>
order allow,deny
deny from 10.20.30
deny from 192.168.207.154
allow from all
</Limit>
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- kyoo 11 years ago
  
  Originally Posted by Ani86
  
  and I'd like to learn more about Nathan K's code. anyone got a link that explains the code?
  
  Nathan's Code will only work on a PHP page, not a static HTML page.
  
  It Basically runs through a list of ip addresses (In the $deny variable) and if the browsing IP matches one of them, it redirects them somewhere else by writing a location header.
  
  Your apache code should work, but I always place the deny after the allows, because I'm not sure if it gets applied in order.
  
  <Limit GET>
  order allow,deny
  allow from all
  deny from 10.20.30
  deny from 192.168.207.154
  </Limit>
  
  [/QUOTE]
  
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  Ani86 11 years ago
  
  So if I use this code
  
  <?php
  $deny = array("000.000.000","000.000.001");
  if (in_array ($_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR'], $deny)) {
  header("location: http://www.google.com/");
  exit();
  }
  ?>
  
  All I have to do is put the IP address in place of 000.000.000s and put the code in the beginning of the contact.php file? Is that all?
  
  Thanks
  
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kyoo

11 years ago

That should do it, although I haven't tested this snippet of code, there may be typos etc. Nathan K probably pulled it from someplace where it was working.

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webzie

11 years ago

Blocking him from your website would be hard, because all he needs to do is use a proxy to disguise his IP.. But you can block it from control panel of your hosting

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Ani86

11 years ago

Originally Posted by webzie

Blocking him from your website would be hard, because all he needs to do is use a proxy to disguise his IP.. But you can block it from control panel of your hosting

How do i block from hosting? my hosting is 1and1

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CrazyStyle

11 years ago

Code:

<?php
if($_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR'] == 'xx.xx.xx.xxx'){
        die("Go to hell.");
}
?>

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webisland

11 years ago

You can write rewrite rules or you can write php or any serverside script to block ip address or country

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WriteArm

10 years ago

Ani 86 : Have you tried just using IP deny in the cpanel?

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DAVE49

10 years ago

Here you can find all information about your IP

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project1010

10 years ago

If you have programmatic control over your website, then you can block an IP address. For example, in VBScript for ASP,
<%
if ( request.servervariables ("remote_host") = "XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX") then response.redirect "http://www.google.com"
%>

where XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX is his IP address.

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Kingfish85

10 years ago

junk emails from automated bots

This means the IP addressed CHANGE....they CHANGE = not the same.

Adding code to the htaccess is NOT going to do anything here....do you people even read the thread before commenting with useless rpelies?!

You need to use something like CloudFlare or a host that has a better firewall or WAF.

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buysellbrowse

10 years ago

Since you have a website form visible from anywhere in the world, blocking a few IPs will not help much. You need a better captcha system that hasn't been broken yet, preferably something that requires the user to understand instructions, then move an object with the mouse to complete a task. Eye-hand coordination is something a computer cannot do (yet).

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Roy Jones

10 years ago

You can block an IP Address using IPSec

STEP 1:
Click on Start menu, then click on Run

STEP 2:
Type " secpol.msc" and Click OK

STEP 3:
When the Local Security Settings console opens, Click on "IP security policies on Local computer"

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shahriyar

10 years ago

I receive a lot of spam every day on my sites, blocking IPs is a solution but not a good one. Because spam will come all kinds of different IPs, they never stay the same.

You should focus on improving security on your forms. Have you tried using reCaptcha? http://www.google.com/recaptcha

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Karen Blundell

10 years ago

rather than blocking ip address for bots it is far more efficient to block the user-agent or referer in your .htaccess file or in the OP's case httaccess.txt -
here is a pretty good one :

Code:

RewriteEngine On

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} ^Zeus [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^Java [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^Sogou web spider [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^Sosospider+ 
RewriteRule ^.* - [F,L]

You can find the referrers hitting your site by downloading your visitor logs and you can also look at your "latest visitors" in the cPanel -

This is what you looking for - this is a good referer:
Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.7; rv:26.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/26.0

This is one of the bad ones because they ignore your robots .txt
Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Baiduspider/2.0; +http://www.baidu.com/search/spider.html)

Good referers obey your robots.txt file
Bad ones don't

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kpmedia

10 years ago

Originally Posted by Karen Blundell

This is one of the bad ones because they ignore your robots .txt
Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Baiduspider/2.0; +ç™¾åº¦æ�"ç´¢å¸®åŠ©ä¸*å¿�'� �€"å...³äºŽBaiduspider)

Baidu sucks. It's an aggressive Chinese search engine, and I long ago banned it.
I have 0.001% legit users/traffic from China (i.e., maybe 1 per 1,000).

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Kingfish85

10 years ago

Originally Posted by Karen Blundell

rather than blocking ip address for bots it is far more efficient to block the user-agent or referer in your .htaccess file or in the OP's case httaccess.txt -
here is a pretty good one :

Code:

RewriteEngine On

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} ^Zeus [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^Java [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^Sogou web spider [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^Sosospider+ 
RewriteRule ^.* - [F,L]

You can find the referrers hitting your site by downloading your visitor logs and you can also look at your "latest visitors" in the cPanel -

This is what you looking for - this is a good referer:
Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.7; rv:26.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/26.0

This is one of the bad ones because they ignore your robots .txt
Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Baiduspider/2.0; +ç™¾åº¦æ�"ç´¢å¸®åŠ©ä¸*å¿�'� �€"å...³äºŽBaiduspider)

Good referers obey your robots.txt file
Bad ones don't

Just remember, every line that's added to the htaccess file, has to be processed. This will certainly slow down a site.

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RobinInTexas

10 years ago

Originally Posted by Karen Blundell

rather than blocking ip address for bots it is far more efficient to block the user-agent or referer in your .htaccess file or in the OP's case httaccess.txt -
here is a pretty good one :

Code:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^Sogou web spider [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^Sosospider+ 
RewriteRule ^.* - [F,L]

You can find the referrers hitting your site by downloading your visitor logs and you can also look at your "latest visitors" in the cPanel -

This is what you looking for - this is a good referer:
Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.7; rv:26.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/26.0

This is one of the bad ones because they ignore your robots .txt
Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Baiduspider/2.0; +ç™¾åº¦æ�"ç´¢å¸®åŠ©ä¸*å¿�'â €"å...³äºŽBaiduspider)

Good referers obey your robots.txt file
Bad ones don't

Rather than

Code:

RewriteRule ^.* - [F,L]

Which generates an error in your Apache log file.
I prefer to use

Code:

RewriteRule (.*) ^http://%{REMOTE_ADDR}/$ [R=301,L]

Which simply sends them on their way. Or if they are slow on the uptake.

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nettiapina

10 years ago

As others have suggested, blocking IPs to combat spam is futile. If someone is in that kind of business, they wont hesitate to proxy around your blocks.

The IP addresses in the htaccess code weren't the ones you're trying to block, right? They're not public IP addresses.

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RobinInTexas

10 years ago

It's going to take a while, but I am using Wordfence plugin on WordPress sites and blocking any and all bots I see with the exception of Google, Bing and Yahoo.
Also blocking ip ranges for any web hosts I find.

Starting to look into using CloudFlare to fence them out far away from my hosting accounts.

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kpmedia

10 years ago

I send mine to a honeypot.

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wondy

10 years ago

Let me riddle you this: if normal users are allowed to submit the form, how are you going to stop spammers from doing the same?

You can't filter them out at the web level completely. Spammers can always just fill out the CAPTCHA themselves. What you need to do is install a reliable spam filter on your email server.

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jkujami

10 years ago

You can use this service to prevent any country or ip's from accessing your websites.

MyIPBlocker - IP BLOCKER | COUNTRY BLOCKER

Configure it properly and add a line to your page/s. It will do the rest for you. You can redirect the blocked traffic wherever you want as well and no need for .htcacess

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