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Title: SMF help
Post by: trevelyn on May 29, 2007, 09:57:04 AM

hey, is there anyway i could BLOCK EVERYTHING from *.ru on an SMF based forum? i can't seem to find that option in the maintenence.

thanks in gameboy advance, Trev.

Title: Re: SMF help
Post by: rbcp on May 29, 2007, 11:38:23 AM

Are you trying to block people from using .ru email addresses?  Or do you just want to completely block .ru traffic?  If you want to block all .ru traffic, it seems like .htaccess would be the way to go. 

I used to get spam on here, but since I've required everyone to confirm their email addresses, there's hardly ever any.  I would delete spam on your forums since I'm a mod, but since you made a special section for them, I thought you wanted them there.

Title: Re: SMF help
Post by: trevelyn on May 29, 2007, 01:13:02 PM

yeah they arent listening, even with the email conf, and the threatening agreement in the registration.  They dont post in the SPAM section they go right for the general discussion. Maybe i should just make the decription of "general discussion" dont read this spam from assholes@.ru hehe

Title: Re: SMF help
Post by: rbcp on May 29, 2007, 01:22:25 PM

Quote from: trevelyn on May 29, 2007, 01:13:02 PM

yeah they arent listening, even with the email conf, and the threatening agreement in the registration.  They dont post in the SPAM section they go right for the general discussion. Maybe i should just make the decription of "general discussion" dont read this spam from assholes@.ru hehe

Well, it's not real people.  Most likely it's an automated script doing the spamming.  Most spambots stick to the general forum since that's the most read.  I wouldn't leave their spam anywhere, because that just lets them know that your site is a good place to spam. 

I'm also using Visual Verification on here so they have to type in all the jumbled letters into a box to prove their human.  That sure helps.  I think it's been a couple months now since I've noticed a spammer here.

Title: Re: SMF help
Post by: mr_doc on May 29, 2007, 03:31:29 PM

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<? if ( substr(gethostbyaddr($_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR']),-3) == ".ru") { die("Fuck Spammers"); } ?>

Title: Re: SMF help
Post by: trevelyn on May 31, 2007, 06:38:57 AM

well i could have sworn i looked through every option and didn't see "picture confirmation."  the phpbb had a much nicer admin layout, and shit was easy to find.

Title: Re: SMF help
Post by: rbcp on May 31, 2007, 06:48:55 AM

I just looked in your admin section and I couldn't find a setting for it.  But maybe I don't have access.  Also, I noticed that you're running SMF version 1.0.8 and I'm running 1.1 RC3, so maybe the visual verification isn't in that version.  Not sure, though.

In mine, I go to admin, click on "Registration" and then click on "Settings" at the top.

Title: Re: SMF help
Post by: trevelyn on May 31, 2007, 07:37:01 AM

okay i just upgraded, you have as much axx to the admin panels as i do, i guess it just wasn't on that version.  thanks for all the help brad!

Title: Re: SMF help
Post by: rbcp on May 31, 2007, 08:56:21 AM

By looking at your version, I just realized that I'm not running the latest version either.  Dammit, they need to stop making new versions.  Hope your spam goes away.

Title: Re: SMF help
Post by: Reverend Greed on June 03, 2007, 12:02:03 AM

Quote from: rbcp on May 31, 2007, 08:56:21 AM

By looking at your version, I just realized that I'm not running the latest version either.  Dammit, they need to stop making new versions.  Hope your spam goes away.

I hear that.  When SMF released version 1.1 - within two weeks they put out 1.1.1 then 1.1.2 all due to SQL injection vulnerabilities and impairments on reading the visual captcha.

Quote from: trevelyn on May 29, 2007, 09:57:04 AM

hey, is there anyway i could BLOCK EVERYTHING from *.ru on an SMF based forum? i can't seem to find that option in the maintenence.

thanks in gameboy advance, Trev.

Brad is correct - having captcha will reduce it - also you may block them with .htaccess:

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<Limit GET POST>
order deny,allow
deny from .ru
allow from all
</Limit>