Preventing unwanted content from being posted on a website.
Preventing unwanted content from being posted on a website.
See How can I prevent comment spam on sites which I control? for analysis of common solutions.
Questions tagged [spam-prevention]
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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 requests through a file called "common.php",…
Matt Andrews
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How can I identify spam traffic?
Recently I am getting some referrals traffic which are everyday changing their name (I am blocking them everyday from GA). First few days their name was example.xyz but now they are using various name. All the traffic's are coming from Russia. They…
Shibly Al-Faruq
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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 of CMS based sites like Joomla, Drupal, Wordpress…
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Best way to block "comment spam" postings to web forms?
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 addresses.
Question: What is a good way to block a small set of…
David Jones
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What's a good way to keep spam out of 'anonymous' submission websites?
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 and porn sites and who-all to just paste their ads all…
Wolfpack'08
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