Guestbook spammer with blank user agent
I’ve got a guestbook spammer hitting me regularly. My guestbook is moderated, so it was only a minor annoyance, until today. Today I found out that somehow my guestbook ate itself. Thousands of pages with junk - virtually nothing on them. I restored an old backup, so it works again. But now I need to keep an eye on that guestbook, and that’s when I noticed the spammer without a user agent.
I’ve got a similar block for trackbacks, so I can use that one:
trackback spam htaccess block
I’m probably going to use it without limiting it to specific files. The guestbook directory has its own .htaccess.