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Block by string

Posted: 05 Aug 2013, 13:59
by nemke
It would be nice if you would add block/unblock by string in CSF, iptables example:

iptables -t raw -A PREROUTING -m string --algo bm --string string_that_you_are_filtering -j DROP

Re: Block by string

Posted: 07 Aug 2013, 13:10
by nemke
Here is a link from WHT thread were using this kind of block helped with DDoS post/get attacks

http://www.webhostingtalk.com/showthrea ... 234&page=3

as he noticed that all attacks had user agent string of IE 6.