Server Spam - Physical Memory Limit reached!

[Erikson]

Dear's!

I ve running a SMF 2 on a TLD! Since three Months i got visit 500 - 1000 Spam Bot, Harvesting Bot and and and. I block the most of them with .httaccess. When i blocked them, again 1000`s of this comes again. My Servers Physical Memory Limit is 100%. So what can i do against them?

Best Regards!

Erikson

[kat]

http://wiki.simplemachines.org/smf/Spam_-_my_forum_is_flooded_with_spam,_what_can_I_do

[Erikson]

Hallo dear K@

Nice link, but really don't help me. The Problem, now it is solved was, that the Bots search for E-Mail addresses from my Users! The Target of the Bots was the TopLevelDomain. So i decide to change the Community in a Subfolder of my Root! I use the SMF Tool...

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repair_settings.php

Works very good! Now i have not one SpamBot! But the other Problem i have now is, that the Avatars and Attachments does not work anymore. What i am doing wrong and what can i do? I use ADK Portal too. This works now again!

With best Regards!

Erikson

[kat]

That's good news! Have a look at your avatar and attachment settings. The paths are, probably, wrong.

[Xarcell]

Spam killed 9 of my SMF forum sites. I got tired of fighting them and closed all the sites in 2013.

[青山 素子]

Spam killed 9 of my SMF forum sites. I got tired of fighting them and closed all the sites in 2013.

Between CloudFlare, Project Honeypot, and some subject-domain-specific questions for registration, I've been very successful at stopping spam. Heck, I even have one board where guest replies are allowed and only see about one spam message a month nowadays with that protection.

[Erikson]

Dear's, thanks for all your Answers! At present Time, i have not one Spam Bot there. As i wrote, there are only interessting in the Mail Accounts for my Users. I have now 3000 User on the Forum! No Problems at Spam at present Time. The Only BIG Problem i have is, who i can fix the Avatars and Attachment Settings! Can i do this in the Admin Panel? Or which File i must edit!

Best Regards!

Erikson

[Storman™]

Glad you having success preventing spam now 

Regarding your issue around Avatars and Attachment Settings, can you start a new topic with full details in the SMF 2.0.x Support board.

[Erikson]

Done...

Glad you having success preventing spam now 

Regarding your issue around Avatars and Attachment Settings, can you start a new topic with full details in the SMF 2.0.x Support board.

Best Regards!

Erikson

[Xarcell]

Spam killed 9 of my SMF forum sites. I got tired of fighting them and closed all the sites in 2013.

Between CloudFlare, Project Honeypot, and some subject-domain-specific questions for registration, I've been very successful at stopping spam. Heck, I even have one board where guest replies are allowed and only see about one spam message a month nowadays with that protection.

I was getting about 2-300 hundred spam posts a day. I used stop forum spam, and bad behavior mod. Although, I should have used honeypot.

[Kindred]

you should have used the option in repair_settings.php to correct the attachments and avatars,

However, yes.. you can adjust the URLs and paths in SMF admin under the attachments settings and avatars settings