off topic thread for the tech geeks (Lucia)

[lucia]

I added some "webconfig" rules that Dreamhost suggested. They catch well known bad things like "timthumb" attempts etc. When that catches something, it triggers a 503 response. So.... I wrote a dynamic 503.php which calls ZBBlock, bans that IP-- and then my other script reads the killed_log.txt file in ZBBlock and bans it at Cloudflare!

[GoGetter]

hi - does zbot stop picscout and similar... http://www.spambotsecurity.com/zbblock.php

It's just it says on their site - It won't stop access to non-exploitable resource files like .gif, .jpg, or .swf.

I have nothing to hide from Getty or others... I'm trying to get as good a understanding as I can in the shortest possible time so I can put my sites (and 10 years of my life) back online after my Letter...

TJ

[lucia]

ZBblock will not block image agents *on it's own*. But once you have it up and running, you can do things to make it block image agents. The difficulty is that
1) It's a little complicated and it's not worth explaining how to do it unless someone first wants to use ZBblock and understands what it does.
2) Someone is willing to fiddle with .htaccess fairly frequently.
3) Someone is willing to burn the cpu/memory to turn image handling into a dynamic process instead of a static process and
4) You (likely) can't achieve perfection.

Because of this, I've never fully explained how to use ZBblock to protect images.