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How to block referral spam completely by help of csf? I don't need google analytics filter advise, as I have tried it and it just block the stuff showing in GA and not actually preventing the request hitting the server and chewing my resources. I need some solid way to prevent these sites at CSF lev...

Well thanks to OVH who sells crappy IP address with their new servers and that's where I get stuck with this situation. They are so robotic and not at helpful in changing this rotten IP who hits me with attack every hour. I dont want to disable the alert for security reason, as many times it tells i...

Thanks jcats,

That seems very obvious now in csf config itself. Appreciate your help in pointing in right direction.

Any idea if there is any downside for disabling it completely. I mean why csf left this open by default in first place......?

My 15 days old server receiving port scanning attack almost every hour. I configured CSF and its doing great job in blocking those port scanning attack and sending me an alert email with the details. Wondering if there is a way I can completely disable the port scanning feature on my dedicated serve...

I entered with format "XX,XX,XX" as I wanted to add three countries to exclude as an exception and block all others. Hope my format is correct without spaces.....?

Thanks Barkster, for great advise. It worked perfectly. But sad part is when I restrict whole world except my country for SSH, WHM and cpanel ports, I am also blocked out now. Looks like CSF country db is not updated regularly. Any idea on how to deal with this issue now, any back door to enter and ...

Hi There, Recently been hit by a distributed attack from many geo location on SMTP, system, FTP etc. I tried and liked CC_ALLOW_FILTER = "" and added my country there and it was great, but little later realize that this block everyone (great) on all ports (including port:80). Wondering if ...