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Help to stop rate spammers!
 
(First, sorry for my bad english)

My ratings are attack for many spammers. Up to now I detected three methods:

(1) One of them was served as the MOD Ratehome to arm a page where it placed 10 voting forms. 2 corresponding to own places and 8 belonging to competitors. From there he votes 10 at their places and 1 to their "enemies ".

I thought of adding a line like this in ratehome.cgi, however he gives error. I suppose that there will be a syntax problem, or some other problem related with my very small perl knowledge..

Code:
if ($ENV{HTTP_REFERER} ne "<%URL%>") { &site_html_rate_failure (ERROR); }

The idea is ratehome.cgi rejects to all of the REFERERS that don't coincide with the URL registered in the database.
Some advice?


(2) Other problem. I install de Rate Log Mod. Look at this:
Code:
Sun May 19 21:59:08 2002|877|10|168.143.113.113|
Sun May 19 21:59:20 2002|877|10|168.143.113.110|
Sun May 19 22:00:30 2002|877|10|168.143.113.112|
Sun May 19 22:00:47 2002|877|10|168.143.113.115|
Sun May 19 22:01:32 2002|877|10|168.143.113.112|

This Guy has some system to change its address of IP in few seconds, with what can vote infinitely without it can block it.
My question is: Can make a general blockade? For example that in the directory /data/877 / rate.cgi registers "168.143.113.*" instead of "168.143.113.112" That, I suppose, stop the votings of the other IP´s (168.143.113.113, 168.143.113.110, etc....).

(3) Look at rate.log

Code:
Tue May 14 17:11:20 2002|960|1|148.233.159.247|
Tue May 14 17:17:21 2002|877|1|148.233.159.247|
Tue May 14 17:17:36 2002|3535|1|148.233.159.247|
Tue May 14 17:17:56 2002|2097|1|148.233.159.247|
Tue May 14 17:20:42 2002|1395|3|148.233.159.247|
Tue May 14 17:21:10 2002|1125|1|148.233.159.247|
Tue May 14 17:21:46 2002|2230|1|148.233.159.247|
Tue May 14 17:22:52 2002|1197|1|148.233.159.247|

The same IP voting several times to different sites.

żExists any MOD can log ALL the votings makes and he doesn't allow a IP to vote but once and for all, even to different places?

I would thank any help that you can give me with this problem.
Thanks.

Pablo.
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Re: [pablo] Help to stop rate spammers! In reply to
 
The solution is very easy.

Just search this forum for block ip and you'll find detailed instructions.
Or go directly to: http://www.gossamer-threads.com/p/45237 Wink

P.S. The code you tried in general is good, only you can't use <%URL%> is scripts only in templates.
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Re: [pablo] Help to stop rate spammers! In reply to
Have you confronted this spammer, showing him/her your information and letting (s)he know that you won't tollerate inflating the ratings?

A simple e-mail to that person may stop it. If not it may be a little work on your end but for a couple weeks until they get the idea that it is not working you could, at the end of everyday, go in via admin and reduce the number of ratings by the number they have submitted. Wink

Added: You will also want to watch the rating from the previous day and reset it.

Web Rat
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Web Rat: Jun 16, 2002, 1:22 PM