blocking spam: WSN Support

blocking spam
problems banning I.Ps

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blocking spam

rem
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Posted 02/02/06 - 04:50 AM:	#1
Hi - great script but am getting about 20 spam posts a day The I.P blocking does not work for some reasons - any ideas?

zippo
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Posted 02/02/06 - 05:47 AM:	#2
If you are using a *nix host and can use .htaccess you might want to consider blocking the offending IPs that way.

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Posted 03/18/06 - 09:18 AM:	#3
Why don't you make approval request?
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rem
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Posted 03/18/06 - 01:25 PM:	#4
i have it set to approval request - but I now have to edit some 100 spam postings every day to find the 1 or 2 genuine ones

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Posted 03/19/06 - 12:22 AM:	#5
Oh, really, that's not good. Then you need some antispam for sure
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Posted 03/22/06 - 06:28 PM:	#6
Just released WSN Guest's first update in almost 3 years. It now works with PHP 5 and MySQL 5, plus it has the security image to prevent spam if you have GD (which you probably do if you have PHP 4.3+). Other than that I didn't change anything except a settings template error, and I added the powered by text back (anyone who doesn't want it can stick with being spammed in the previous version). Edited by Paul on 03/22/06 - 06:30 PM
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Posted 03/23/06 - 11:05 PM:	#7
EDIT delete by Master m Edited by Master m on 03/24/06 - 02:49 AM

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Posted 04/10/06 - 07:44 AM:	#8
I have added this update but get the same four letters every time with a change in the graphic. is this the way this is supposed to work, I would expect that the letters would continually change as well as the graphic that holds them.

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Posted 04/12/06 - 06:47 AM:	#9
The letters change every few hours.
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Posted 03/22/07 - 06:53 AM:	#10
I had the same problem. The IP ban doesn't seem to work as coded, at least in the version I had. Here's what I did. In the start.php and admin/adminstart.php files find the corresponding lines of code and replace with the code below. FIND $ipbanarray = explode('/n', $settings->bannedips); REPLACE $ipbanarray = explode("/n", $settings->bannedips); (I think the error above is fixed in the current dist'n) FIND $visitor = $REMOTE_ADDR; REPLACE $visitor = ( !empty($HTTP_SERVER_VARS['REMOTE_ADDR']) ) ? $HTTP_SERVER_VARS['REMOTE_ADDR'] : ( ( !empty($HTTP_ENV_VARS['REMOTE_ADDR']) ) ? $HTTP_ENV_VARS['REMOTE_ADDR'] : $REMOTE_ADDR ); FIND if ($ipbanarray[$i] != '') REPLACE $ipbanarray[$i] = trim($ipbanarray[$i]); if ($ipbanarray[$i] != '') That should do it!

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Posted 03/22/07 - 02:56 PM:	#11
$HTTP vars have been off by default since PHP 4.1, so you need to use $_SERVER and $_ENV. Your first two steps don't apply to recent versions (except in the admin panel where it doesn't really matter), so your change boils down to adding $ipbanarray[$i] = trim($ipbanarray[$i]); Edited by Paul on 03/22/07 - 03:04 PM
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