Spam in links submit! - links mgr contrib

**clydejones** · 24 Feb 2007, 07:38 AM

Originally Posted by Doodlebuckets

I did the same thing for insurance-focus.com and dang if he didn't get another link submission through anyhow!

the one that got through, did it come from the main domain name (insurance-focus.com) or from a sub-domain (subdomain.insurance-focus.com)?

**Doodlebuckets** · 24 Feb 2007, 02:37 PM

He uses a different IP addy every time. I looked one of them up and it was in a list of masking IP addies, I guess what spammers use so they can cloak themselves. I don't know enough about it. But the emails that zencart sends with his submission have a different IP addy every time, from all different places on the globe. And in addition to that, I get a bounced email every stinkin time that says this:

<noonehere######################>:
66.196.97.250 does not like recipient.
Remote host said: 553 VS10-RT Possible forgery or deactivated due to abuse (#5.1.1) noonehere###################### Giving up on 66.196.97.250.

The IP in the email is different every time too. It's very frustrating and time consuming to delete all his junk!

**a_berezin** · 24 Feb 2007, 03:24 PM

Spamers bot directly using page links_submit with parameters 'action', 'links_url', 'links_category' etc. To protected from this bots you also may:

0. Use CAPTCHA;

1. Rename page links_submit to any other, for ex. 'links_subm':
1) /includes/extra_datafiles/links_manager.php
Line

Code:

define('FILENAME_LINKS_SUBMIT', 'links_submit');

replace by

Code:

define('FILENAME_LINKS_SUBMIT', 'links_subm');

2) rename /includes/modules/pages/links_submit/ to /includes/modules/pages/links_subm/
3) rename /includes/templates/<YOUR_TEMPLATE>/templates/tpl_links_submit_default.php to /includes/templates/<YOUR_TEMPLATE>/templates/tpl_links_subm_default.php

2. Rename parameters, for ex. links_url to links_submitting_url. Edit /includes/templates/<YOUR_TEMPLATE>/templates/tpl_links_submit_default.php and /includes/modules/pages/links_submit/header.php.

**Doodlebuckets** · 24 Feb 2007, 03:49 PM

Wow, thanks Andrew! I will do that today! I sure hope it throws this guy off the trail...

**weezee** · 11 Nov 2007, 08:42 PM

I have tried all this thats posted and I am still getting these xxx rated ###### site in my links. I have denied the url that it redirects to and the url it's self. but all they do is change the url link and the new url still redirects to the same site.
how can I stop that.