Blocking Country IPs?

[PUMPaul]

In the past 2 weeks there have been over 14,000 fake login attempts made from China IP addresses as well as a few hundred from Russia, Ukraine, and Romania.

The few hundred don’t bother me too much but 14,000 attempts is a bit too much for me to wrap my head around.

Has anyone else experienced something similar?
Does anyone here block entire countries from accessing your site?

My site is small but growing. I don’t want to alienate potential customers or lose valuable affiliates at a time when every sale counts. To date I have not had a single sale come from China or Russia and wouldn’t consider blocking countries like Canada, UK, Netherlands, or Germany where surfers actually buy.

[Lee]

There are definitely some countries you should be blocking from accessing your site however, instead of blocking them outright, you should send to sites where you actually gain traffic or income from that traffic.

For example, signup to a toplist and send your 'blocked' traffic to that, in return, you should get some usable traffic back from the toplist... Another thing we do on our freesite domains is send it to some of our private TGPs that use hosted galleries.. That way, the traffic actually gets to see some porn, and we have a potential at making a sale via a sponsor hosted gallery and.. Best of all, we dont need to worry about hotlinking

If you are talking about these attempts being made on paysites you own, simply get StrongBox installed and dont have any worries as StrongBox will automatically block those IPs.

Regards,

Lee

[PUMPaul]

If you are talking about these attempts being made on paysites you own, simply get StrongBox installed and dont have any worries as StrongBox will automatically block those IPs.

Regards,

Lee

Thanks Lee

What countries other than China should be blocked?

I do have strongbox and the IPs were on the blocked list. That is how I know the number and where they were from.

[Rich]

there is a lot of scammers in russia so probably block that to

[raymor]

Thanks Lee

What countries other than China should be blocked?

I do have strongbox and the IPs were on the blocked list. That is how I know the number and where they were from.

You can set Strongbox to block certain countries, at least in the most recent version.
Like all Strongbox configuration, that's done in config.pl so that the bad guys can;t
change it by hacking into your admin area.