Bloody Spammers!! August 3, 2006
Posted by Lucanos in : webserver , 1 comment so farThat’s It! Tired of it!
It really makes you wonder when, today, people still keep on spamming you with emails and blog comments trying to sell you medication or whatever… How the hell do they make enough money to survive? I know I have never bought anything I have been spammed about, and I am sure that anyone out there with more than three brain cells would say the same.
And yet they persist! At least 80% of the comments I have recieved on this blog? Spam. Selling Viagara or Xanax or any one of a million other pills which I have never heard of, and have never ever used!
The only solution? I’m starting to block IP addresses. Yes, I know that I will be running the risk of blocking legitimate visitors, but I am just tired of their crap.
At the moment I have 22 blocked address or address ranges. If you want to avoid copping their crap too, feel free to copy and past the following into your .htaccess file. It will block them from accessing your site altogether.
order allow,deny deny from 62.183.50.164 deny from 65.124.60.9 deny from 80.32.136.92 deny from 125.244.11.195 deny from 125.244.54.130 deny from 125.244.55.130 deny from 125.244.132.130 deny from 140.116.58.137 deny from 164.100.149.34 deny from 165.228.128.11 deny from 194.165.130.93 deny from 195.78.228.23 deny from 195.175.37.71 deny from 196.203.192.27 deny from 198.189.20.21 deny from 200.65.127.163 deny from 200.142.202.140 deny from 201.0.4.148 deny from 201.67.42.195 deny from 201.147.158.52 deny from 202.29.20.151 deny from 202.63.229.194 deny from 202.75.128.24 deny from 202.159.212.165 deny from 203.116.22.132 deny from 203.146.102.24 deny from 203.149.62.66 deny from 203.158.215.2 deny from 203.211.158.253 deny from 203.213.217.227 deny from 207.97.160.34 deny from 213.249.155. deny from 216.85.253.254 deny from 217.119.114.154 deny from 217.218.114.121 deny from 217.219.203.16 deny from 219.240.12.173 deny from 220.72.163.175 deny from 221.250.175.147 deny from 222.124.19.108 allow from all
And I am sure that list is going to grow.But, on the bright side, I have noticed quite a massive decrease in the amount of spammy comments since I started using this method. Finger crossed that trend continues.
UPDATE 09 Aug 2006
Added a pile of IP Addresses (Had 28 Spam Comments…)