Anyone a member of Project Honey Pot?

I've recently been turned on to this fantastic resource and I have to spread the word! If you haven't heard of it, it's a colaborative project by millions of webmasters to catch spam bots, commment spammers and e-mail harvesters:

http://www.projecthoneypot.org/

Get involved!

If you're using joomla with sh404sef you can just activate it from the configuration and automatically block 'bad' IP addresses that the project has identified. Non joomla users can insert code manually.

I was getting a bunch of comment spam (moderated so it was never really posted, but still - it's annoying!), started using project honey pot and *ping* it stopped! :joy:

Honey Traps have been set! Mwa ha ha ha ha.

I have been a member for years....

I don't post much but will look up ip's occassionally.

In fact I was there earlier today since I had seen an ip in my fastclick stats that followed a whole lot of links and sure enough the ip was l;isted as the purity search bot that has a hsitory of not following robots exclusions.

This made me want to file a report so I did a whois on the ip and filed a report with the host, and with the report I also sent a link to the page with the report on that ip.

It's a great resource.

Rick
Universal4

That sounds like a geat idea. I'm getting at least 100 comment spam every day (sometimes 300!) so i desperately need something to help. Do you know if they have Wordpress support?
Pat

I do not use any of the project's automated tools, but it is a great resource for lookup.

For bad spammers, don't forget about the rbl's etc at Spamhaus.

http://www.spamhaus.org/

Rick
Universal4

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Originally Posted by patmcluk

That sounds like a geat idea. I'm getting at least 100 comment spam every day (sometimes 300!) so i desperately need something to help. Do you know if they have Wordpress support?
Pat

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I use Joomla myself, but a quick search of the Wordpress plug in site returns 5 results. Some are just for participating though (honey trap links) but some do the IP lookup:

http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/...honey+pot&sort=

I've also used this for years. It's a good tool for sussing out whether your visitors are spider bots too.. Didnt realise it could be used as an add in for stuff liek joomla. I really should pay more attention. :p