Spam Comments

Spam Comments - we all get them How many bloggers have never had their comment form used by spammers? Very few I would say.

No Website Url Less Spammers

Removing website URL from comment forms reduces spam. Without a website URL in the comment form spam bots are less successful. We also ended up with fewer manually written spam comments. This time we're working with a Drupal website. There's no Drupal module to remove the homepage URL so we did it with code instead. …

Extreme Spam Control

Taking Spam Control to an Extreme Level We took spam control to a ridiculous level. As an exercise in discovering just how effectively spam can be blocked with WordPress it's been an interesting exercise. We looked at the 4 main types of spam one is likely to see on their blog; comment spam and trackback …

Bork-Edition User Agent

Opera User Agent "Bork-Edition" Have you seen Bork-edition user agent strings? Wondered what browser uses this string? Maybe noticed nearly all traffic to your site with Bork edition in the user agent string is spam and hacking attempts. User agents with Bork-edition are considered by at least one writer among the top 10 spam bots …

Weird Spam by E-Mail

The weird spam email phenomenon. If you've received an email that makes no sense whatsoever you've seen this weird spam for yourself. The form these mails take varies. In Ireland spammers used quotes from Harry Potter. The mail I received had no particular theme, just random letters. Nonsense Spam Just when I thought I'd seen …

Is MWEB a Spammers Haven?

Is MWEB a spammers haven? In many ways South Africa has become a spammers haven. Most spam is from telemarketing calls. Mailing lists and phone number lists seem to circulate freely, bought and sold no doubt. The worst offenders creating this spammers haven are financial institutions; banks, insurance and investment companies. MWEB IPs used by …

Pansee Site Valuation – Rubbish

Pansee Site Valuation of no Value Ever had a site valuation by pansee.com - I got sent a mail informing me 'someone' had conducted a valuation of my website graphicline.co.za using pansee.com valuation tools, with a link to the valuation report. I was interested to see what the report contained. I checked if Google had …

2753 Spam Comments in Two Weeks

The Heavily Spammed Article Three spambots tried to leave 2753 spam comments on a single article in two weeks. I'm pleased to say none were successful - all blocked by Drupal CAPTCHA. The article receiving this unwanted attention is about the use of website backlinks. I would take an educated guess at the subject matter …

Honeypot Your Blog

Users of WordPress.com and Blogger.com cannot set-up a hosted honeypot trap as we don't have access to the server, however we can use a quicklink to assist Project Honeypot in collecting data about spambots and comment spammers...

Spambot Spam Comments

Are Spambots getting better? This morning I had to think for a moment, and look closer at the commenters name and website URL, then I rememberred: the posted name and website link was not one of the available sign in services (WordPress, Facebook, Twitter), so how did this commenter manage to subscribe by e-mail when leaving a comment. SPAMBOT...