SpamBot Killers on the Rampage
"Am I afraid of high notes? Of course I am afraid! What sane man is not?” -- Pavarotti If you run a blog or website and you are carefully watching your hits, more often than not you should be able to identify bots attempting to do all kinds of nasty, evil things at your site. Many of these absolutely will not obey the Robots.txt file (although they may request it just so they can see if there is any material for nastiness there). They perpetrate all kinds of schemes, trying out SQL Injection attacks, attempting to post blog spam and trackbacks, and the like. Some of the stuff they try (and I have real-time database logging, so it's easy to amuse myself) is either hilarious or pitiful - depending on your frame of reference! Fortunately, it is relatively easy to head these nasties off at the pass -- almost all this junk traffic emanates from IP addresses that don't change. So what I do is I have a BADIP list that's easy for me to edit, and in Global, in Application_PreR...