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Thread ID: 75076 2006-12-15 19:20:00 How to prevent Guestbook being spammed John W (523) Press F1
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506950 2006-12-17 19:26:00 Hard to say with certainty, but in all probibility it's a spam bot. The IP address is a known and prolific spam source.

From Spamhaus:

Ref: SBL48749

213.42.21.77/32 is listed on the Spamhaus Block List (SBL)

04-Dec-2006 22:16 GMT | SR08

form/blog spam source

213.42.21.77 is a massive source of form/blog spam sent via http.
Part of this form spam is converted into mail spam getting into the
mailboxes of web site administrators and contact addresses.

Likely an open http proxy.
Greg (193)
506951 2006-12-17 22:28:00 Hi John

Personally i would recommend ditching the frontpage based guestbook

But if you insist on using it then have a read of this

Have a look at this (forums.webworkshop.org)


Also there is a solution mentioned here (www.expression-web-designer-help.com)

example using the mentioned script (www.angelwingnursery.com)
Morgenmuffel (187)
506952 2006-12-19 23:43:00 I think it's unpreventable because a few days ago i found such "guestbook" hack on the net. msnforum (11610)
506953 2006-12-20 02:04:00 The only way to "prevent Guestbook being spammed" is the simple one. Don't have a Guestbook. :D Or else have a web site ona host which isn't connected to the Internet. :thumbs:

PressF1 requires registration before anything can be posted. PressF1 fairly often gets postings from determined spammers. That makes unnecessary work for the moderators, and I doubt if it gets any sales for the perpetrators.
Graham L (2)
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