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Why do people love spaming my site?

OK, If I have been doing a good job, you shouldn’t even know this. But SOOO many people come to my site, trying to harvest email addresses, they try to spam, and I have even had people ATTEMPT to dos a certain website, using my website…..

scroll down to the bottom of this page, that’s a big number, isn’t it?

To anyone who has this type of problem, here are some tips to help stop spam/abuse (no, I am not talking about email spam)..

1. Join ProjectHoneyPot. This website, you can install a simple script that catches email harvesters, comment spammers, and even email spammers (I have one installed). Every IP address that it recordes is made PUBLICLY available. Then you can have a script like I do that blocks EVERYONE that is on that list. This is my 1st line of defense.

2. Bad Behavior. I Love this.. I am not sure what it all works for, but there is a version of bad behavior for word press, this is what you see at the bottom of the page (scroll down). This script analyzes where each and every visitor comes from, it checks what browser, and many other different factors and blocks all bots (except good ones, like google). This DRAMATICALLY reduces bandwidth..

3. My last line of defense against comment spam… Akismet. I am not saying that because it is my last line of defense, that is it least effective, because it is great. If, by chance, that a bot or someone gets past 1, or 2, there an extremely good chance they will not get past this. This checks every comment against a database that is always evolving to see if it is spam. If it passes, your comment makes the cut, and is posted.

BTW, all this happens in less than a second, pretty cool, eh?

Have questions about any of these techniques? Always feel free to email me psidude@psidude.com

psidude unblocker

OK, one tool is ready, I installed a cgi proxy (btw, new version that came out a few days ago, great improvements that most people don’t have yet). This proxy will allow you to log onto myspace, facebook and so on while at school, OR you can use it to be anonymous, both work for me, as long as you don’t do illegal things with it! please try to spread it, and let me know if there is anything that doesn’t work right as a comment, or email me psidude@psidude.com

http://psidude.com/unblock

The reason I am not calling it the psidude proxy is because some of the more “spiffy” filters will filter any url with the word ‘proxy’ or ‘myspace’ or… so on in it

West Host

Somethin kinda cool happened today.

The company that psidude.com is hosted with is West Host, and I had a small issue logging in a control panel on their site that shows account information and stuff. I sent the member support email an email, and I received one 3 minutes later from a PERSON, not automated, not only that, but my issue was cleared up then too.

This is the best part, when I submitted the email, you can choose priority low, normal, high, or emergency, I picked low, and this all happened at about 4:30 AM. pretty good service, great host too…

totse.com

This website is great! totse.com
It has everything that you shouldn’t do, that being said, I DONOT take responsibility for any actions you take from this website.

Check it out ;)




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