Blocking proxies....

**classact** · Apr 8th, 2008, 9:52 am

Wondering what is the best way to rid myself of people accessing the site via a proxy - and the quickest way to remove them.

**grim** · Apr 8th, 2008, 1:41 pm

You can block their IP address for starters..

**classact** · Apr 8th, 2008, 1:57 pm

I was wondering is there was some script that would detect the proxy and block it

**EmmaB** · Apr 8th, 2008, 2:03 pm

I dont know how this is but I did a search for you and found this site that sounds like what you are looking for Anonymous Proxy Detection Software @ DetectAProxy.com

**grim** · Apr 8th, 2008, 2:10 pm

Just remember some users might not even be able to reach your site w/o a proxy

Not all proxy users are up to no good.

**dbbrock1** · Aug 20th, 2008, 5:05 pm

Originally Posted by GRIM

Just remember some users might not even be able to reach your site w/o a proxy

Not all proxy users are up to no good.

This is true...not all, but most

Usually all you can do is block the IPs and detecting it can be pretty hard to do. Im going to have to check out detectaproxy.com

**LaZyBuM** · Aug 23rd, 2008, 8:00 am

make a php script that gathers latest proxies from proxylist sites and then resolve each site's IP and ban them

**gorlim** · Aug 27th, 2008, 8:55 am

What is wrong with people using proxies?

**PaidForumPosting** · Sep 2nd, 2008, 3:59 pm

What's wrong is that people tend to use proxies to circumvent IP bans. People who have been previously banned and want in again to spam you for instance.

That said, there are people who do use proxies for good. When I was still in uni there was no way to do the majority of things that I needed to without a proxy because they blocked almost everything that wasn't educational.

**vectro** · Oct 28th, 2008, 1:17 am

If you really need to block proxies look into installing mod_geop for Apache from MaxMind on your server. With one line of code in the .htaccess file for a site you can block well known proxy services and satellite Internet providers. It is free.

For only $5 per month for 1,250 queries you can add advanced proxy blocking. Details are at MaxMind - Proxy Detection

**Tazfan** · Nov 26th, 2008, 12:29 pm

they only way of doing this is if you new the ip of the proxy and then add them to the ban list of your site a qick serch on google will find most of them but there will be a lot that you will not be able to stop

if you need more help with this fell free to drop me a pm or post back here