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 Hello,
I have applied the Geographic Blocking too all countries and contents in the world except Canada, as my site is local site and I used to get lots of hits from Russia trying to create membership. so I blocked all countries. it was working fine but I'm still getting some requests to create membership in my site from Poland and Russia ... etc.

Please see attached the blocking page to all countries.
and also see the page today I got 3 requests to register in the site.

Please help. I really want to block any country to visit my site.

Thanks,

I just checked my Google Analytics, and it shows a referral from:

forum.topic69471390.darodar.com

and the area is: Samara Russia

Please help. thanks,

The GeoIP block is something of a toy. It is good enough to keep the bots out but a live human will go through it like a hot knife through butter. All they have to do is log into a Canadian proxy server and keep on keeping on. Nicholas tried to remove it from Admin Tools a while back but had crowds of users with torches and pitchforks trampling his flower beds, chanting death threats, etc.

Add to that the fact that the geographic data is provided by a third party service based on where the IP is supposed to be. It doesn't know where the IP is, only where the system thinks it is. It is about 90% accurate on a good day.

And hackers don't actually use their own IP addresses anyway. They use computers that they have infected and remote controlled.

So you slowed them down a bit, that's a good first step. Now you need to require user verification to create an account on your site. That is where the user clicks a link in an email sent by your site to verify their information. That kills the rest of the bots because they just can't do that. You can have Admin Tools delete all the unverified user accounts after x days of inactivity to keep your user list clean.

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