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Misuse of my homepage

Mar 24, 2008 5:26AM PDT

We have a genealogical homepage on the Web.
On that page we had a PHP-based guestbook. Sorry to say someone misused this guestbook and obviosly added some pornographical pictures linked from their own pages.
This resulted in a traffic that was much more than allowed on our page by the host.
I have removed the guestbook but there is still an enourmus traffic (12000 visits compared to about 300 visits/month) most of the traffic cannot be seen from the logs.

Is there any way to block this traffic (I have blocked som IP-addresses or groups of addresses)??

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Just what some had to do.
Mar 24, 2008 8:36AM PDT

They went offline for a month.

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Once a search engine
Mar 25, 2008 3:40AM PDT

Once a search engine indexes this spam, etc, it takes a while to disappear again. Blocking IP addresses is about as much as you can do. Now that the traffic visits a non-existing guestbook, at least it shouldn't take too much bandwidth if you have an error page instead with no graphics.

Also, for the future, try using a guestbook with captcha.

~Sovereign