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I even changed its name from "wwwboard" to something else as it seems the messages were being posted automatically from bot-type spiders merely looking for a "wwwboard" directory on whichever site.
That stopped things totally for about a month...now it has started again. I would go over to a phpBB type solution but I have already tried that. Uses too much resources and having to register just put too many people off. We are not a forum site but the membership-free wwwboard type thing works well and we do well off adsense ads on it too...so I would like to persist.
What other solutions exist? I tried blocking IP numbers in .htaccess but the bots are changing IPs daily so it just isn't working.
I was thinking of using .htaccess to limit posts per IP to, say, once every 10 minutes or so. How would I do that? Is there any other way of doing it...I even looked into having two forums on the go...a clean one and a "filter" one which I check before allowing posts onto the clean one...but it would just increase my work load unnecessarily and that is the last thing I want.
ideas people?
I would strongly recommend moving to some more modern and better-supported solution. If phpBB is too "heavy" for you, you could try using one of the lightweight alternatives. Try something like MiniBB: [minibb.net...] which allows for anonymous posting, is very fast, and is a far superior script than the ancient wwwboard. Your users will probably love it, and it is easy to integrate into an existing site.
but....will it allow me more control over idiots like this? If not, don't see how much it would help me. I imagine it will be more secure than wwwboard. Would it stop remote "bot" attacks?
am using latest version of wwwboard although I have seen other sites offering "safer" hacks of it too.
