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I've been a long time user of Scuttle. It's a Web-based social bookmarking system and allows multiple users to store, share and tag their favourite links online. Very recentily I notice a //bot// spamming "cheap auto insurance" and "doctor" links. Due to the 'open' nature of Scuttle, a little tweaking (very little) is nessecary to stop public spam and public registration.

First log into your web server re SSH and then move the registration page to a different name. For example;

mv ~/www/scuttle/register.php ~/www/scuttle/privreg.php

Then simply visit your PHPMyAdmin and drop the spam & the users.

All spam posted to this server originated from the same IP, 70.126.212.204.

If you are using a firewall, simply block all traffic from this source. With APF Firewall the command is as follows;

sudo apf -d 70.126.212.204 Scuttle Spammer Road Runner

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