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#12439 Tons of spam, automatic put those IP's to the Blacklist

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Latest post by on Tuesday, 26 June 2012 18:00 CDT

user55201
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Description of my issue:
Hi Nicholas
The last 8 weeks I got tons of spam's every day, sometimes I got 30-40 e-mails from my homepage for all this traffic of spam attacks on my homepage.
I would like to have the possibility that in future, all this ip-adresses are automatic put to the blacklist. It,s very annoying to have every morning my mailbox full of such mails. Mostly the spammers com from China or Russia.

It seems to me like a sisyphus work. As soon as I have put all the 30-40 spammers from the security exceptions log to the site ip blacklist from the last 24 hours, the next day it repeats it again, over the next day again and so on.
Could you program a button that when this button is active, all spammers are put automatically to the site black list and that get only an email when there is a really attack?

Thanks
Chris

nicholas
Akeeba Staff
Manager
I believe the feature you're looking for is called automatic IP banning and it's implemented since several months ago. Plus, since there's no "spammer" reason in the security exception I'm not sure how we could automatically classify spammers aside from other potential intruders?

Nicholas K. Dionysopoulos

Lead Developer and Director

🇬🇷Greek: native 🇬🇧English: excellent 🇫🇷French: basic • 🕐 My time zone is Europe / Athens
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user55201
Hi Nicholas

Thanks a lot for your answer. I configured it as you suggested.
Chris

nicholas
Akeeba Staff
Manager
You're welcome, Chris!

Nicholas K. Dionysopoulos

Lead Developer and Director

🇬🇷Greek: native 🇬🇧English: excellent 🇫🇷French: basic • 🕐 My time zone is Europe / Athens
Please keep in mind my timezone and cultural differences when reading my replies. Thank you!

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