Stop cutenews spam/hacks

[Kasami2k4]

Yeah yeah yeah, they probably didn't want this modified, but whatever. I was surfing the web today and came across some girls cutenews article with over 200 SPAM COMMENTS IN IT.

So I decided to bury myself in the files and make sure spammers wouldn't bother with my website, so I wasn't victimized. Instead of forcing people to register, I just rewrote a few of the files.

Enjoy

Cutenews 1.4.6

Step 1 - Rename your cutenews folder to something random to prevent haxx0rs from finding the install path.

Step 2 - Go into the cutenews skins folder and add this between the head tags of the default skin. Or whatever skin you're using/

<meta name="robots" content="nofollow, noindex">

This will prevent haxx0rs from finding your cutenews directory through a search engine.

Step 3 - Download this
http://www.sendspace.com/file/kbkbkm

And put it in your inc folder. This will make spamming your site completely useless, as it'll turn all links (Even inputted ones) into nofollow ones ^.^

**** you spammers, and have a nice day.

Rep appreciated =p Or a thread rating.

[nina]

Oooh, nice, i stopped using cutenews cuz of the spamming and hackers, but this is awesome. Thank you! :D

[Kasami2k4]

No problem. I like cutenews and dont think I should have to waste a database on wordpress.

[stephysan]

i always liked cutenewsssss but i had to take it down cuz of too many spam
and i almost got hacked once thanks to it -.-
yay i miss cutenews haha i prob dont remember how to use it anymore LOL
my smilies were the cutest =D

[Kasami2k4]

Yeah same :O Spammers are ghey

[TaintedPearls]

im about to start using cutenews again and this will come in handy....thanks

[blaqheartedstar]

i use this
http://cutephp.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=23066

but that sounds pretty good.

[Kasami2k4]

Dont bother with that. Its buggy. Mines not :o Mines easier to implement too >.>

[Smurfwicked]

Not trying to rain on your parade but making cutenews not indexed by search engines isn't going to stop the "script-kiddies" (just not what I would define as a hacker, not all hackers are bad either) from exploiting it. You might of help prevent spam. But cutenews is one of the most unsecure scripts out there. And they know that a lot of girls use cutenews on their myspace resource sites and since they're so easily networked together thru link exchanges they're going to eventually find your site.

Do you have a working example of this "safe" version of cutenews?

[gowanstl24]

Hey Tiff - can you please re-upload that file? The sendspace link expired. Thanks! :)

[Kasami2k4]

Ive been using it on my site, smurf :/ it hasnt been hacked, but I dont get spammers. So Im just assuming it works

[n3o]

maybe just that you haven't been hit !

[Kasami2k4]

yeah maybe
im far from a pro