Comments on: Are You Getting Spammed Too?

By: cocktail mixing

cocktail mixing — Sun, 05 Apr 2009 07:39:15 +0000

Very nice information. Thanks for this.

By: rsfrs

rsfrs — Sat, 21 Mar 2009 12:08:21 +0000

Nice article and i feed your posting

By: Bohack

Bohack — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 21:08:38 +0000

Me too… so i tried installing the plugin easyban and I banned the above mentioned IPs. It works really well. Hope this helps.

Jon

By: Gift Blog

Gift Blog — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 08:29:19 +0000

yes me 2

By: oneighturbo.com

oneighturbo.com — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 20:43:47 +0000

We use http://www.defensio.com and http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-hashcash/

Defensio has a 99.49% rate with 193 false neg. out of 39987

By: James Turnbull

James Turnbull — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 09:51:36 +0000

We’ve been receiving hundreds of these comments each day since a couple of weeks ago. Akismet isn’t helping, and doesn’t appear to be learning them. Initally they had empty URLs, but now they have started adding in links to splogs.

I installed WP-hashcash alongide akismet and it’s successfully blocked all of these comments with no false positives so far.

By: Wib

Wib — Sun, 16 Nov 2008 19:55:51 +0000

Well WP-reCAPTCHA doesn’t work as I’ve just received another spam comment from 94.102.60.153. It’s another one of the twenty links of gibberish style ones.

By: David de Beer

David de Beer — Sun, 16 Nov 2008 19:11:01 +0000

incidentally, I got the exact same spam via my contact form today. banned the IP it originated from, but it does seem as if I’ll have to stop being lazy and get a proper spam protected contact plugin.
the one I’m using right now just employs some simple math to verify the human-ness. clearly not enough.

By: Ajay

Ajay — Sun, 16 Nov 2008 14:01:41 +0000

I just mark them as spam. I’m sure Akismet will learn in time

By: Vince

Vince — Sat, 15 Nov 2008 21:18:32 +0000

Just checked my spam folder as it has been a couple days. I now have the same IP trying to spam with links. Akismet did catch them and set them aside. I went ahead and blocked the IPs just in case. How lame…..

By: Vince

Vince — Sat, 15 Nov 2008 21:06:41 +0000

I got some as well the other day. They had no links at all including the user name URL and that is why Akismet did not see these as spam. It does look like someone is trying out a new “tool” but when they start adding links Akismet should stop them. I’m hoping this is only spam and not a hacking tool being tested.

By: redwall_hp

redwall_hp — Sat, 15 Nov 2008 18:38:50 +0000

I’ve been getting them too now and then. The really odd part is there isn’t any comment link. Just random text. What’s the point? What do they get out of it?

By: David de Beer

David de Beer — Sat, 15 Nov 2008 16:47:01 +0000

hmm, Akismet was utterly useless in the last while’s spam attacks. Had no idea this was a general thing actually. I do know WP-Spamfree was much more effective in cutting the spam off than Akismet was (I turned the latter off, and activated the former and no more spam since).
but yah, comment moderation is non-negotiable.

By: Infinityvers

Infinityvers — Sat, 15 Nov 2008 16:27:27 +0000

I don’t like Akismet so I use reCaptcha instead.

By: Wib

Wib — Sat, 15 Nov 2008 16:08:11 +0000

First of all I got the random letter spam and then today I received a couple of spam comments from the same IP address containing around around twenty links that are comprised of random letters.

I’ve just installed WP-reCAPTCHA to see if that’ll stop it.

By: Manuel

Manuel — Sat, 15 Nov 2008 15:28:37 +0000

Yes, I had these Spamcomments, too. Akismet didn’t help.

I have a question, since you speak of the .htcaccess file. I would love to see a post describing what it is, what’s it useful for and how one makes one.

cheers,

Manuel