Addition of a Hardware Firewall to reduce spam

[rknight111]

We added a hardware firewall to our system to cut down on the spam that we have coming in from some countries,
this will eliminate certain countries from even being able to see the site as any members we had log in from these certain countries have all been spammers.

If you notice any issues please let me know as we implement this system.

Thankyou
Ron

 

[rknight111]

The firewall is not running yet they want to get it set up in the wee hours of the morning. They may be doing on Sunday night as it will take 4-5 hours.

Some ISP's may have blocked this ip as we had an email address compromised then it sent out thousands of emails. I applied with all the blockers to remove the blocks and it should be completed shortly. Refresh your browser.

 

[rknight111]

The firewall will be installed tonight after 1:30 MTN and will take approximately 4 hours. The site will be off line for this time

 

[rknight111]

The firewall is up and running. Spam should be cut down alot. Blocked several countries from any access to the site.

 

[intmid8or!]

three new spam threads this am, guess it worked?

ps, why not use human verification?

 

[rknight111]

Cannot block every spammer overnight. We blocked several countries and we still have more to go. The image only blocks the spam bots not actual people. The only way to keep them away is block ip's. A country like china has hundreds of thousands of IP's to block. Software firewalls cannot block this large amount of ip's. Larger sites require more security. As your more recognized by search engines you are more recognized by spammers and hackers.

 

[intmid8or!]

was hoping this acct was real


first few pages of your new member accts is riddled with spam accts... theres nothing in place here to stop from siging up and going straight to posting links or pm'ing spam chit

 

[rknight111]

Once we log all the countries of all the spammers and block all those countries. All the banned spam accounts will be removed completely.

 

[rknight111]

was hoping this acct was real


first few pages of your new member accts is riddled with spam accts... theres nothing in place here to stop from siging up and going straight to posting links or pm'ing spam chit

So this means your going to volunteer to assist us in going through and verifying ip addresses on 35000 plus people?

 

[Open Season]

Why am I haveing problems moving within the site since this hardware upgrade. I keep getting data base errors

 

[rknight111]

Why am I haveing problems moving within the site since this hardware upgrade. I keep getting data base errors

Please email me a screen shot if you get an error, the firewall would completely stop you from seeing the site at all, it would block you from the server.

 

[Open Season]

Sorry Ron I couldn't figure out how to insert the print screen in an email. I don't have trouble getting to the forum, only trying to open threads. That's when I get this error message.