Spam from China

[Zacarias]

I'm having a problem with spammers who's ip addresses all resolve to china (.cn)

I wanted to know if it was possible to ban all ip addresses that resolve to china. Basically, I want to ban Chinese users from my board.

[Wayne Luke]

Enter the IP addresses that you want to ban under vBulletin Options -> Banning Options.

[Zacarias]

Then I would have to ban every chinese ip address that exists.. There isn't an easier way to just ban any ip that resolves to china, or re-route them to a different site?

[Wayne Luke]

You can ban blocks of IP addresses.

192.168.1.1 would ban that IP address.

192.168.1 would ban the entire subnet

192.168 would ban the network

192 would ban anything starting with this octet.

You can also use wildcards.

192.168.1* would ban all IP of the following IP addresses: 192.168.1, 192.168.10-19, 192.168.100-199.

[cyburbia]

You can ban blocks of IP addresses.

192.168.1.1 would ban that IP address.

That method won't work with China, because you could be taking out parts of "innocents" (Australia, New Zealand, etc) in the APNIC IP space.

The best place to block China completely is in .htaccess, not vBulletin.

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Yeah, the WOW and Runescape spammers are hitting me hard, too. Can't ban the PRC, though, because I've got legit users there. I divert Chinese IP blocks from register.php to a special notification page, asking them to register by sending me an email

[superhorus]

Im fed up with china aswell

Hello,Im struggling to get going and spendin gall day removing spa messages, even with a question and answer

192.168.1.1 would ban that IP address.

is this the IP for china that I need to ban.

and is there a list of addresses so I can ban a few more aswell.

[Wayne Luke]

192.168.1.1 is your local router. It is a non-routable IP address that is reserved for internal networking.

[steven s]

Yeah, the WOW and Runescape spammers are hitting me hard, too. Can't ban the PRC, though, because I've got legit users there. I divert Chinese IP blocks from register.php to a special notification page, asking them to register by sending me an email

I got my first runescape spammer today.

[Tommy C]

Problem with these Spammers!

ok...interesting enough...as I am writing this there is a guy on my site registering with an email address ending in @21cn.com I'm assuming this is CHINA. I see that he is in the UserGroup "Users Awaiting Email Confirmation". But when I go into my Admin...then Moderation...then Moderate Users... WHY ISN"T HE LISTED THERE AWAITING MY APPROVAL???? This has happened now 2 X's this week with guys with gmail accounts???? How are they avoiding my moderation?

[Wayne Luke]

Because "Awaiting Email Confirmation" is different than "Awaiting Moderation". It is two different usergroups. Once they confirm their email, then they will be put into the moderation queue. They haven't avoided anything, just haven't gotten that far in the chain yet.

[Andy]

Hello,Im struggling to get going and spendin gall day removing spa messages, even with a question and answer

Mind if I ask what question you used that does not work.

[Zacarias]

I think cyburbia may be on to something. I'll try that solution.

[cyburbia]

I think cyburbia may be on to something. I'll try that solution.

A caveat: that's the nuclear solution. You might want to try this if you have legit users from China.

http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/showp...&postcount=173

Download htaccess.txt, and add it to your .htaccess file. It's a htaccess directive intended to redirect visitors from the most trouble-prone IP blocks in China away from register.php to a placeholder page you define.