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1. Sushubh
   Member
   Posted 3 years ago #

   casablanca.cz

   i am being hit massively from someone or some bot with this thing. can't ping it. deny from casablanca.cz does not help in htaccess. what to do what to do?

2. vkaryl
   Member
   Posted 3 years ago #

   Would help if you posted what exactly you're using in the way of plugins etc. to contain spam....

3. Sushubh
   Member
   Posted 3 years ago #

   i am talkin about refer spam! which means some kind of bot or program is leaving a lot of links in my referral lists...

4. Kafkaesqui
   Moderator
   Posted 3 years ago #

   Plugins to the rescue!

   http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/wordpress-plugin-angsumans-referrer-bouncer/

5. whooami
   Member
   Posted 3 years ago #

   that plugin blows.. (no offense, but it doesnt work) a hardened .htaccess and perhaps, bad behaviour, is the only way to deter referer spam.

6. Chris_K
   Administrator
   Posted 3 years ago #

   Someone help me understand what referrer spam is or does?

7. Sushubh
   Member
   Posted 3 years ago #

   blows as in? :O)

   is it a good thing?

8. whooami
   Member
   Posted 3 years ago #

   referer spam is is when people hit your site, and the referring page (the page that they supposedly came from) is a spam page.

   By default, apache logs referers. Therefore most stats programs, like webstats or awstats also track referers.

   The goal is is to show up in those stats, and hopefully have the stats be publically viewable somewhere.

9. vkaryl
   Member
   Posted 3 years ago #

   Sushubh - blows is slang (Americanized) for "isn't any good at all"....

   (In Texas, this is AKA "sucks rocks through a straw".)

10. Chris_K
    Administrator
    Posted 3 years ago #

    Ah, thanks Whooami. So they're banking on showing up in the /reports/report.html that analog spits out and then getting indexed by a spider?

    Sneaky. Clever! Ok, gotcha.

11. whooami
    Member
    Posted 3 years ago #

    I can give you a great list of .tld's to block via .htaccess that will help immensely :

    RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} \.by [NC,OR]
    RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} \.su [NC,OR]
    RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} \.to [NC,OR]
    RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} \.ru [NC,OR]
    RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} \.us [NC,OR]
    RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} \.tf [NC,OR]
    RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} \.info [NC,OR]
    RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} \.cz [NC]
    RewriteRule ^(.*) %{HTTP_REFERER} [R=301,L]

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