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| Re: Anonymous User Blasting our forum [message #28583 is a reply to message #28582] |
Tue, 01 November 2005 00:08   |
Ilia
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Sounds like a search engine is indexing your forum, or someone trying to gain access to the forum by trying random user/password combinations.
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| Re: Anonymous User Blasting our forum [message #28588 is a reply to message #28585] |
Tue, 01 November 2005 00:22 |
Ilia
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If it is a search engine you can put robots.txt file in the forum's web root dir to block search engines from indexing the forums.
if this is a hacker trying to compromise someone's account, check your logs and ban their IP.
Edit:
Read your 2nd message just now.
The best way to handle this "user" is to deny them access via firewall or web server settings.
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| Re: Anonymous User Blasting our forum [message #28604 is a reply to message #28582] |
Tue, 01 November 2005 19:56 |
BugLaden
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Anoymous Coward is the default anonymous username installed with the forum.
I get this type of traffic every month or so, and believe its a search engine crawling the forum. This was recently confirmed when I installed webalizer and after a few months noticed that an address from the MSN Search domain has a significant about of page hits.
Unless you have some sensitive material in your forums, having a search engine crawl your site is not a bad thing!
-=BugLaden
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