Earlier this month I noticed that a particular bot that likes to visit my website, “MJ12bot/v1.4.8” seems to be particularly attracted to the “reply to comment” links generated by my blog. Those are links that bots see, but we see the “Reply” button that uses JavaScript to reply to a […]
WordPress
More ways to stop spammers and unwanted traffic
Comment spammers, trackback spam, stupid bots and AVG linkscanner eating into your bandwidth and server resources? Here’s how to put a dent in their activities with a few mod_rewrite rules. I hate those blogs that send me fake trackbacks and pingbacks. Unfortunately it’s impossible to stop but this morning I […]
apache , WordPress
Keep the libwww-perl bots out
If you look through your server logs you’ll probably notice more than a few requests like these: GET //wp-pass.php?_wp_http_referer=http://148.245.107.2/.ssh/id.txt?? … “libwww-perl/5.805” GET /2004/02/18/smoking-ban-is-on-the-way/trackback/ … “libwww-perl/5.805” GET /2004/02/18/irish-car-tax-list/trackback/ … “libwww-perl/5.805” GET /tag/php//tags.php?BBCodeFile=http://drpepper.gigacities.net/id.txt? … “libwww-perl/5.579” If you do find them (grep libwww-perl access_log) then add the following code to your .htaccess file. […]