Abuse from Virgin customer - Grrr
I run a website for my archery club which has a contact form, and have had two abusive messages in the last few days. Looks like the work of some dimwit teenagers with nothing better to do. The form records the IP address of the sender, and I have traced it to being a Virgin Media customer. I have reported it to them, so hopefully they will take some action.
I'll get the little offenders
I'll get the little offenders
When you catch them, tie them to some trees, put some apples on their heads and invite your archer friends over for a practice session.
Just got another one, this time aimed squarely at a specific person. This, for reasons I won't go into, tells me who it is. I have blocked the IP address with .htaccess - ah the power
Quote from: Denzil Just got another one, this time aimed squarely at a specific person. This, for reasons I won't go into, tells me who it is. I have blocked the IP address with .htaccess - ah the power
Thats easily overcome though!
I'd use a small php script and write a cookie to their hard drive with a number you can tie up to any posts made. That way you can then check on submission of future posts to see if there is a cookie - if it matches previous abusive posts your script can discard it. Of course you can still check IPs too that way using php. Another method would be to look for common words used and spelling mistakes. Search submissions for those and if it contains them then drop the post (exit the script) without saving or emailing it.
I haven't seen any more since, so either VM has closed his account, or he doesn't know enough to change his IP address, or he has started taking his medication again. I don't speak PHP, so I don't think I could justify spending any time working out how to do it, to be honest. I have too many other things to do! Thanks, anyway.
Thanks, anyway.