Spammer from Germany

[asim18]

Hiya.

Yesterday, I decided to look at my photoblog's admin page to see any comments and the thing had been bombarded with over 1500 spam comments in the space of 12 hours.

The messages were originating from three different IP addresses. So I put them in the IP ban list for the photoblog and asked it to delete all the comments from those IPs.

I also added the IPs to the global IP ban list so they cant access anything at all.

Today, I decided to check if my bans have worked, and they have, sort of... Now there's a fourth IP address which is bombarding me, and I've also banned this.

Now the thing is, I'm worried that the spammer will keep on bombarding me from different IPs. How many will I have to ban? I sure hope he runs out of IPs and gives up.


I've traced the IPs and they all originate from Germany:
78.46.66.178
91.214.44.153
67.215.237.98
78.46.93.230


What should I do? What would you do in a situation like this?

Are there any laws about this kind of thing? Should I ask TSOHost to investigate?

 

[Ross1234]

There are laws against that, but chances of anything done about it are minimal.

 

[unwashed potato!]

right a script which checks last x amount of comments ip address, if same get them to answer a question, if they pass this and a further 3 comments then ban and email you so you don't have to keep checking etc.

 

[robmiller]

They're zombie PCs, no your host won't give a toss, yes it's really really common, no you'll never be able to trace who it is, yes you should just install one of the millions of anti-spam solutions available.

 

[V4NT0M]

I believe there is a version of akismet for pixelpost should cure your spam comment woes.

On another note "phlog" sounds like something you would cough up =/