Thread: What to you do about Proxy attack?

One of my sites seem to be experiencing proxy attack, how do I solve this issue?

I am not sure but are you talking about AdminQuest because I can not get on it at all?

Originally Posted by TVDinner

I am not sure but are you talking about AdminQuest because I can not get on it at all?

Nothing to do with admin quest, its to do with unscrupulous people using proxy to harm your SERPS

Temi, this attack method could do serious demages because the weaker websites can be remove from search engine listings due to the duplicated content. The problem is when a proxy website does not restrict the indexing activity of search engines regarding the proxified content.

How can you protect your website?

You need this code

PHP Code:

<?php
$ua = $_SERVER['HTTP_USER_AGENT'];
if(stristr($ua, 'msnbot') || stristr($ua, 'Googlebot') || stristr($ua, 'Yahoo! Slurp')){
$ip = $_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR'];
$hostname = gethostbyaddr($ip);
if(!preg_match("/\.googlebot\.com$/", $hostname) &&!preg_match("/search\.live\.com$/", $hostname) &&!preg_match("/crawl\.yahoo\.net$/", $hostname)) {
$block = TRUE;
header("HTTP/1.0 403 Forbidden");
exit;
} else {
$real_ip = gethostbyname($hostname);
if($ip!= $real_ip){
$block = TRUE;
header("HTTP/1.0 403 Forbidden");
exit;
} else {
$block = FALSE;
}
}
}
?>

included to the very beginning of the script or add this to the .htaccess file as php_value auto_prepend_file value. The code will validate the search bots in accordance with their host, if they try to index the proxified content they will get 403 server error.:rolleyes:
More information about the topic can be found in my earlier blogpost.

Fantastic Zoli, rep added.

sir can I ask something?

what do you mean by proxy attack?

Some unscrupulous people can get you site content tangled in proxy site, search engines will then penalise you for duplicate content.