Firewall wanted for website

furnitureman | 15:09 Tue 23rd Aug 2011 | Technology

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I have a .co.uk domain with my website, blog and Forum. The forum gets tons of spammers. I got over 600 in three days when I moved it to a new
provider and the captcha was off. I need some sort of Firewall that will run on my ISP's server to block these bots. I could put them in my .htaccess or via Cpanel Deny Manager to keep them off my site but anybody have a better way? Thanks

MULITMETER

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ChuckFickens

SO you don't want a firewall, you want some way to stop spammers using bots to post on your site?

captchas are probably your best bet, banning by IP addresses isn't workable because most people don't have static IP addresses (and bot networks will be using hundreds or thousands of peoples computers, many of them with dynamic IP addresses)