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Excessive force against bots?
Posted: Wed Jun 15, 2011 9:36 pm
by Victoria Raverna
This morning while trying to access OO forum from my office pc, I got the following message because the office is using our default zscaler proxy which is connect to internet through Singapore IP address.
403 - Spammers Forbidden
Sorry this IP space has been banned due to excessive human bots spamming our forum.
The following country IP Blocks are now banned:
Bangladesh
India
Pakistan
Afghanistan
Singapore
and a sprinkling of manual ranges from China (whole country blocks are next)
Do yourself a favour and tell your friends to start patching their systems and run some antivirus. Otherwise they are botnet victims waiting to happen.
You're banning the whole Singapore country plus those other 4?
So I now have to switch to zscaler's Japan proxy to connect. Hopefully you don't ban Japan next.
Re: Excessive force against bots?
Posted: Thu Jun 16, 2011 12:23 am
by Rip
Victoria Raverna wrote:This morning while trying to access OO forum from my office pc, I got the following message because the office is using our default zscaler proxy which is connect to internet through Singapore IP address.
403 - Spammers Forbidden
Sorry this IP space has been banned due to excessive human bots spamming our forum.
The following country IP Blocks are now banned:
Bangladesh
India
Pakistan
Afghanistan
Singapore
and a sprinkling of manual ranges from China (whole country blocks are next)
Do yourself a favour and tell your friends to start patching their systems and run some antivirus. Otherwise they are botnet victims waiting to happen.
You're banning the whole Singapore country plus those other 4?
So I now have to switch to zscaler's Japan proxy to connect. Hopefully you don't ban Japan next.
Actually your name came up as one of concern when we were selecting countries that were a problem and had no known members. FP was concerned blocking India might prevent you from getting in and I mocked him for it. I guess he wasn't as far into looney land as I had assumed.
Re: Excessive force against bots?
Posted: Thu Jun 16, 2011 5:30 am
by Victoria Raverna
I sent my home's static IP to FP to exclude in case he is going to ban Indonesia next.
Re: Excessive force against bots?
Posted: Fri Jun 17, 2011 10:21 am
by FishPants
I know it may inconvenience some of you, but we can whitelist easy enough. I've just had it with these moron human spammers, we've all got better things to do than to constantly chase these guys down, and there was a clear pattern on originating IP blocks -- so it's banned.
Anyhow your proxies should be whitelisted now.