Posts Tagged “stop spam”

Stop spammers in your htaccess

Over a year a go I wrote an article on how to stop spammers by adding them in your .htaccess file.
In the article I mention a Python script that does the work for me. Well I decided, thanks to a comment in the article to publish the program here.
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Update WordPress Plugin: AVH First Defense Against Spam v1.2

A new version of the WordPress plugin AVH First Defense Against Spam has been released today.
This release adds a new feature to stop spammers.

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Update WordPress Plugin: AVH First Defense Against Spam v1.1

A new version of the WordPress plugin AVH First Defense Against Spam has been released today.

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New WordPress plugin: AVH First Defense Against Spam

Today I released a new WordPress plugin: AVH First Defense Against Spam.
The AVH First Defense Against Spam WordPress plugin gives you the ability to block spammers before any content is served. Spammers are identified by checking if the visitors IP exists in a database served by stopforumspam.com or by a local blacklist.
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Spammers trying to access my blog

In November of last year I suddenly got a more than usual amount of spammers hitting my blog and forum. I wrote a Python program that will retrieve my access logs, my htaccess file and a list from the website stopforumspam.com. It will update the htaccess file and can upload it back to the site and thus eliminating access to my site for those known spammers.

I thought it would be nice to share some statistics from the months December 2008, January and February of 2009.
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