Introducing Contact Form IP Address Blocker module

[datakick]

Hi everyone,

we are happy to announce new premium module: Contact Form IP Address Blocker module

First of all - this module only works on thirty bees version 1.6.0 -- if your store is not on this version, you will need to update first. Thirty bees 1.6.0 introduced new hook that allows modules to filter contact form messages.

This Contact Form IP Address Blocker module use this hook to block sending messages based on IP address. It collects statistics for every IP address -- how many times it send/attempted to send contact form message. This information is shown to administrator, and they can ban IP addresses of spammers.

There is also an option to automatically ban IP addresses after they send N messages in the last H hours (where both N and H can be configured)

Note that the ban is for sending contact form messages only. So, if you ban somebody by mistake, they can still use your site, they just can't send you contact form message -- they are asked to send email instead.

I hope you will like this new addition to our of premium modules.

 

 

[DRMasterChief]

that sounds great!
perhaps a second step would be good:  if there really are too many requests per hour/minute, could you send exactly these IPs to the Blackhole?  (BlackholeBot Module)

[datakick]

20 hours ago, DRMasterChief said:

that sounds great!
perhaps a second step would be good:  if there really are too many requests per hour/minute, could you send exactly these IPs to the Blackhole?  (BlackholeBot Module)

I would be a little afraid about blocking regular customers by mistake, but it could be easily done for sure.

[DRMasterChief]

yep, i know what you mean and i understand that this module is not for such behaviour,  but hey...  a customer who send 20,30 or hundreds of messages in a n time ? ....  so maybe this could be a nice addition.  Let´s see what other users think about.