Spammers

[chevelle]

How to spammers find my guestbook and is there a way that I can prevent it?

[nick]

most people use some kind of image verification thing on their forms to prevent something like that

[chevelle]

Originally Posted by nick

most people use some kind of image verification thing on their forms to prevent something like that

How do they even find me in the first place?

[nick]

Originally Posted by chevelle

How do they even find me in the first place?

google most likely, they crawl sites and search engines i would imagine

[chevelle]

Originally Posted by nick

google most likely, they crawl sites and search engines i would imagine

Is there anything I can disable or delete within my coding or site that will prevent them from finding me?

Can I some how block them from gaining access to me via blocking their IPs?

ANYTHING?!

[chevelle]

Update:
I used the IP deny module in CPanel to block two IPs from two spam guestbook entries. Since then I have gone the longest without any spam.

My question is: am I potentially blocking innocent people from viewing my site? Or JUST the evil spammer?

[nick]

just two ip's, i doubt any innocent people will be hurt

[shdwbox]

Yeah, bots crawl the web... you need to put a file in your website and call it robots.txt From there you need to add this line:

User-agent: *Disallow: /

Hope that helps