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Stopping Spambots: A Spambot Trap

Posted by Hemos on from the stopping-the-bots dept.

Neil Gunton writes "Having been hit by a load of spambots on my community site, I decided to write a Spambot Trap which uses Linux, Apache, mod_perl, MySQL, ipchains and Embperl to quickly block spambots that fall into the trap. "

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  1. mod_perl!!! I can hardly contain myself!! by cscx · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    Hold back the excitment, people, it's another episode of story recycling.

    This site is pretty handy, now that I'm on the topic. Also make sure to check out RobotCop. Out for Apache now, coming soon for IIS and Zeus!