Proxies?

[fahimtm]

Are there any ways to block proxies from accessing your site?...
I've added hundreds of proxy ip's on my cpanel ip deny manager, but still they keep coming.. I've tried the following:

RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP:FORWARDED} !^$ [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP:X_FORWARDED_FOR} !^$ [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP:VIA} !^$ [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP:USERAGENT_VIA} !^$ [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP:PROXY_CONNECTION} !^$ [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP:XROXY_CONNECTION} !^$ [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP:HTTP_PC_REMOTE_ADDR} !^$ [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP:HTTP_CLIENT_IP} !^$
RewriteRule .* - [F]

And

if(isset($_SERVER['HTTP_X_FORWARDED_FOR']) || ($_SERVER['HTTP_USER_AGENT']=='') || ($_SERVER['HTTP_VIA']!='')){
die("Don't use proxies, please.");
}

But no luck..anyone got any idea's?
Thanks from me and anyone else this can help

[humperville]

What are the proxies doing? Are there people spamming you? Getting too many registrations?
A little more detail. Cause a proxy isnt always a bad thing, lots of people at work use proxies so they can get on certain sites.

[UltimA]

If you're using a forum (which I assume you are), there should be certain modifications (I know for vBulletin at least) which the majority of proxies :)

[azlan1]

Some people fm certain countries needs elite proxies in order to download fm megaupload.
Not everyone is rich enuf to spend their hard earned cash on buying download sites premium accounts.

Check out this scenario pls:
I have an rs premium, but am thinking twice about other accounts. Still, while browsing, i might come across download links fm mega.As I always believe in checking out the goodies 1st myself before sharing it with others, hence come the need for downloading. Otherwise, a leeching copy paste would be enuf. Still, as mega would just gimme craps on all alloted slots to my country are fully used, every single time i tried, and i just dont want to compromise my pc's health by downloading their toolbar, the next best course of action would be is to use a proxy.

While downloading, with a proxy address pasted to my fox, I might be browsing in ur site as well on the other tab, reading their hilited probs, and as i happened to know that this probs could be solved with the very softs that i'm now downloading fm mega, i made a mental note to reply to the queries as soon as i could check out the quality of the goodies.

A probs solved, a happy member would spread good words about ur site, new members might be joining u and accidentally clicked on the adds on ur site to give u more revenue, or to really click on the donate button to keep ur site running just to show that they really appreciate what ur site could provide for em, problem solving, soft, apps and all.

The morale of the scenario here is, not all proxy users are just leachers/spammers, same as not all virus would harm ur system.

ur bro.