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How do I block an IP address from the forum???

Posted: Sat Jan 14, 2006 11:37 am
by VelvetGeorge
Or, more accurately, how do I find out the IP address of the site that keeps signing up these members with names like "texas holdem" and onlinepoker.com????

For the last three Saturdays I've had to manually delete dozens of these fake member names. Fuckin annoying.

Little help here??

VG

Posted: Sat Jan 14, 2006 11:46 am
by NitroLiq
Not sure if this helps but it appears to be a spam bot. Check out some other bloggers that have experienced the same thing:

http://wordpress.org/support/topic/15067

It's a spam bot. Did a quick search at the phpBB forums and found this.

http://www.phpbb.com/phpBB/viewtopic.ph ... highlight=

Pete

Posted: Sat Jan 14, 2006 12:01 pm
by VelvetGeorge
Ah ha, a new thing to worry about.

I'm not hip to modding the code myself. I'll hire (meaning beg you with parts in trade) to help me out after I get back from NAMM>


George

Posted: Sat Jan 14, 2006 12:08 pm
by NitroLiq
Not a problem. I'm finishing up some other work now, but I can do a bit more research on it later and see what I dig up.

Pete

Posted: Sat Jan 14, 2006 3:37 pm
by Necrovore
George have a look here http://www.phpbb.com and go to the forum and do a search using keywords: banning ip The search came up with quite a few suggestions.

Posted: Sat Jan 14, 2006 4:39 pm
by VelvetGeorge
Thanks, I'll try to make some time to check into it.

george