Strangely enough, I have some idiot(s) spamming my guestbook. Every other day I have a bunch of entries by Jessica and random names with random email addresses with links to weird sites (which I never click on) and leave random comments.
This has been going on for a while now. Is there any way to overcome this problem? My guestbook is with HTML Gear.
I feel like 
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You can get the IP adress then enter in ur linux root via ssh
and type apf -d ipaddress , or u can put a ban on that ip via ur cpanel.
But if u are using HTML Gear, well from ur admin account u shud be able to see IP`s of each of the guestbook entries, and from that IP u might have a ban option in ur admin cp of HTML Gear. I never tried HTML Gear so i dont know.
Otherwise u can just put up ur own guestbook script on ur webserver and have complete control over it.
Let me know what ur Site URL IS, i will help you if needed.
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ok got ur site url from ur profile. Check you PM.
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Thanks.
I'm gonna try and get the IP blocked if I can, insha'Allah.
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Another option you have is that you add a guestbook that allows you to use CAPTCHA this is where a user sees a picture and then they must type those letters/numbers in the picture to post.
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Yes CAPTCHA is a good solution but not good in all cases. Most prolly you have your guesbook hosted on a shared hosting. In that case you might not be able to implement CAPTCHA for certain reasons.
Usually this spamming is done through automated bots. Mostly these bots are configured for a certain template and run all over internet lookking for websites they can recognize. So what you can do is change the flow of your guest book application a little bit. For example you can add a checkbox with yes/no option asking user if s/he's sure about adding this comment. Having this added, automated intelligent (actually stupid) bots will not know that they have to click 'yes' before adding a comment unless someone will program them to do so.
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^^ and just to add for the sake of adding.. dont use the words "yes/no" combinations ...
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very informative!