Spam-Call-Filter
Windows program with Setup. It uses a voice modem to fend off those nasty tele-marketers. (by philpw99)
apache-ultimate-bad-bot-blocker
Apache Block Bad Bots, (Referer) Spam Referrer Blocker, Vulnerability Scanners, Malware, Adware, Ransomware, Malicious Sites, Wordpress Theme Detectors and Fail2Ban Jail for Repeat Offenders (by mitchellkrogza)
| Spam-Call-Filter | apache-ultimate-bad-bot-blocker | |
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| 2 | 3 | |
| 2 | 747 | |
| - | - | |
| 2.1 | 9.5 | |
| 10 months ago | about 24 hours ago | |
| AutoIt | C | |
| GNU General Public License v3.0 only | GNU General Public License v3.0 or later |
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For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
Spam-Call-Filter
Posts with mentions or reviews of Spam-Call-Filter.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-11-05.
apache-ultimate-bad-bot-blocker
Posts with mentions or reviews of apache-ultimate-bad-bot-blocker.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-03-10.
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Ahrefs Saved US$400M in 3 Years by Not Going to the Cloud
I found Ahrefs a bit too aggressive. Thankfully they seem to honor Robots.txt so it's not much of a problem, but across the wide range of sites I'm responsible for, the Ahrefs bots really stood out as being a problem. Out of curiosity, I just double checked and the only hits from them in the logs are "GET /robots.txt" which is what I would expect.
I recently found a regularly update place for bot stuff:
https://github.com/mitchellkrogza/apache-ultimate-bad-bot-bl...
I don't think I'd call Ahrefs a "Bad Bot" but they are on that list. I'd call any bot ignoring robots.txt bad though.
- My VM gets thousands of hits from vulnerability crawlers (bots) each day. Is that normal?
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Added a Google Recaptcha to the Checkout page due to bot-fraud attempts, now it hinders legitimate customers
Most malicious bots are well known and blocking them is often simple. Use the popular Bad Bot Blocker software https://github.com/mitchellkrogza/apache-ultimate-bad-bot-blocker
What are some alternatives?
When comparing Spam-Call-Filter and apache-ultimate-bad-bot-blocker you can also consider the following projects:
nginx-ultimate-bad-bot-blocker - Nginx Block Bad Bots, Spam Referrer Blocker, Vulnerability Scanners, User-Agents, Malware, Adware, Ransomware, Malicious Sites, with anti-DDOS, Wordpress Theme Detector Blocking and Fail2Ban Jail for Repeat Offenders
htpw - htpw is a project to increase the security of your WordPress!
infinite-fake-website - Lure SEO spammers down a hole with no bottom
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