Recent content by spamtrawler

Let me quote your signature please, without getting offended: Now this is advertising I would say. There is already a xenForo community, which we are using here at the moment. If I go to your website and have a look at the Marketplace, it says "Premium Membership", which means somebody has to...

Yes, maybe the poll is pointless, but does it harm anybody ? But there are people on every forum, who don't participate actively in discussions, but would leave a vote on the poll. So the poll may not be as pointless as it looks like...

I'm sorry but honestly speaking I think that these posts are a bit off. Before putting any post about our software in these forums, I have been in contact with the xenForo team and asked for permission to do so. If this was intended as being Spam, then I guess it would have happened differently...

Hi, First of all thank you all for your replies :) @netsultants: One issue with .htaccess blocking is that no caching is taking place and parsing a huge list of IPs everytime you open a page, will definitely lead to a slowdown. On top of this, keeping .htaccess blocklists updated can be...

Hi, On our Website we currently block: UserAgents: Java/1.6.0_22 Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; SV1; .NET CLR 1.1.4322) Babya Discoverer 8.0: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; Crazy Browser 1.0.5) Plus chinas Baidu Spider, as the UserAgent block is quicker...

We had the same issues a while ago. Currently we are using a mixture of: - Country based blocking - IP list blocking - Checks against Project Honeypot - Blocking based on unwanted Charsets (Chinese, Japanese, Cyrillic) - User Agent based blocking - Referrer blocking - Header based blocking

Hi Shadab, Reason for you being blocked is the country. Unfortunately we had to temporarily block certain countries due to bad experiences in the past. This can of course be configured freely by the administrator :) You can use the captcha to unblock yourself on our website. This block has...

Hi, Out of self defence we have developed a Website Firewall and Security Suite, which evolved into more than the initial side-project. We started developing SpamTrawler, when even our development sites became unmanageable due to constant spam registrations and posts (Blog, Comments, Forums...