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Need Help Busting A Spammer!

by TheGrooby
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One of my sites has a search box that brings up search results from eBay for whatever you are looking for. Someone is continually posting these long links: Https://www4.georgetown.edu/sfs/wiis/registration/people/cvs/man58.html into the search box and spamming the hell out of me. I've browsed through StatCounter and Google Analytics but can't seem to find who it is to ban their IP. What methods can I use to bust this person?
  • Profile picture of the author Tashi Mortier
    Okay... let me see if I can help.

    For me the reason why you don't see anything on google analytics is that the spammer uses some automated script that doesn't care about the JavaScript code that google uses.

    Is your script written in PHP?

    Add the following code snippet to get a log file of IPs and their search string:

    PHP | <?php $ip=$_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR']; $fp= fopen (

    Replace $searchString with the variable containing the actual string.

    Tell me what if you catch any IP addresses this way.
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