Looking in the website traffic report in cpanel (hostgator), I found some IP host addresses with very high hits (4,000 hit) , far away compared with other visitors (1 to 60 hits).
When a do a “IP whois” in some of them found out this:
“The Project Honey Pot system has detected behavior from the IP address consistent with that of a mail server and dictionary attacker. Below we’ve reported some other data associated with this IP. This interrelated data helps map spammers’ networks and aids in law enforcement efforts. If you know something about this IP, please leave a comment.”
Dictionary attack!
My site is a joomla-virtuemart catalog mode, and I’d like to know if is good practice to block this high hits IP addresses via cPanel.
This is not related to cs-cart, but I’d like to know more about this, since we are moving to cs-cart soon. Thanks in advance for any advice.
[quote name=‘colortone’]… I’d like to know if is good practice to block this high hits IP addresses via cPanel.[/quote]
You can block it through cPane, just make sure that you don’t block a whole coutry wich is important for you.