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No new filesWelcome to Geeklog Monday, May 20 2013 @ 09:56 AM EDT
Are you getting spam on your Geeklog site?
1/1: Are you getting spam on your Geeklog site?
| Yes, a lot |
 158 (23.37%)
|
| Yes, some |
131 (19.38%)
|
| Hardly any |
83 (12.28%)
|
| None at all |
304 (44.97%)
|
Other polls | 676 voters | 10 comments
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The idea behind this and the other poll is to get a feel if and how spam really is a problem for Geeklog sites these days. Technically, the SpamX plugin should pretty much take care of it, but how much spam do you actually see?
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www.antisource.com
spam me. The key work to block was "i n C est" In case you've been hit by
these sick-os (naturaly, remove the spaces). After a while of their posts being
blocked, they have tried a whole lot less.
LinuxElectrons
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LinuxElectrons
Referer spam should be blocked as early as possible, i.e. by the webserver, so that it doesn't create extra load (due to the need to create a session, etc.).
I've explained how to do this here.
The Spam-X plugin only kicks in once somebody actually tries to post something, so it wouldn't help against referer spam.
bye, Dirk
Unfortunately, my host is very unhappy enabling .htaccess overrides. This made me question whether something like the ban or Spam-X could be integrated with stats/gus. However, in light of your post, it looks like such integration would not release much load on the server and seems unnecessary. The only benefit i can think of off hand is that a world-readable stats plugin would not provide free links to the next free-dvd-copy .com (google-fed pearl script). But we already have a ban plugin for that.
On a different note, the article you (Dirk) refer to is very useful in general. Is there some place where such informative articles are collected - FAQs? Is something like "Hardening a Geeklog Site" worthy of a support forum topic since it goes beyond installation or plugin help and general stuff?
Thanks,
Ajay
The article above is linked from the FAQ entry How can I speed up my Geeklog site?
I do actually intend to write up a similar FAQ entry on security issues, but haven't found the time and inspiration yet ...
bye, Dirk
Well, it seems like there is a way. It still requires the PHP interpreter to be fired up, so it needs more resources than the .htaccess approach, but integrating it into lib-common.php before the sessions are created will at least keep the load off of the database.
bye, Dirk