This spam thing is killing me.

[edpudol]

The solution provided by ash stop the new registration, but bot still attacking the register.php that eat to much resources of the server even registration is not successful.

[TobiParrot]

You can try and block the bot (if it identifies itself as pycurl) using the htaccess addition described in this post:

HELP! I'm getting spammed!

Would be interesting to know if it works, or not.

[juicecowboy]

I used the .htaccess fix and it works...for now. a developer friend of mine tells me that "In Curl, one can spoof USER AGENT as IE or Firefox. So really need something better."

So for what its worth, its a stop-gap measure until the registration has a better, more permanent solution.

[AshDigg]

Perhaps this may be of some assistance. Blacklist v0.1

[edpudol]

Originally Posted by AshDigg

Perhaps this may be of some assistance. Blacklist v0.1

I am getting the following error when I am trying to use the said module


Warning: preg_match() [function.preg-match]: Compilation failed: nothing to repeat at offset 0 in /home/mysitevo/public_html/modules/blacklist/blacklist_main.php on line 34

[PeteK]

I received 3000+ spam comments and users in about a day :-(

[PeteK]

Oh and don't try to go to mysql and delete all the spam users and comments, your front page wont work...

[edpudol]

Originally Posted by PeteK

Oh and don't try to go to mysql and delete all the spam users and comments, your front page wont work...

I have deleted mine via mysql phpmyadmin and don't get any problem