Mandatory information about my setup:
Have I read the related troubleshooter articles above before posting (which pages?)? Yes
Have I searched the tickets before posting? Yes
Have I read the documentation before posting (which pages?)? Yes
Joomla! version: 2.5.8
PHP version: 5.3.17
MySQL version: 5.5.28
Host: Rochen
Admin Tools version: 2.4.4
Description of my issue:
Greetings Nicholas,
Question re: the best way to block bad bot content-spammer traffic
using AT Pro: In my site's case, a forum script that we once ran
attracted content spammers who could exploit the old script. 2+ years
ago, we switched to Joomla! and now use Kunena. The old forum script
was at: sitename/forums. Kunena is now at sitename/forum. Any
legitimate (human) traffic has long since moved to /forum. Yet we still
get 1,000 bots/day coming to /forums. AT Pro and HTTP:BL handle all
these. But is there a more elegant (specifically, less cpu and bandwidth
intensive) method that we can employ utilising AT Pro's tools, knowing that anything coming to sitename/forums is a conent-spamming bot that needs to be blocked?
Notes: We can't block their IP addresses, because they
come from everywhere. But we know the URL they are targeting:
sitename/forums/[various exploit-intenting command strings]. Finally, there is nothing at sitename/forums - not even an empty directory.
Thank you, -- Dave
