Tuesday, August 7th, 2007
Since my move to Wordpress, I have been noticing a lot of funny track back hits going back to my old Movable Type installation. First of all, all of these hits were coming back from different IP addresses and different browsers. Second, they all had the same refer. Something was ...
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Saturday, December 10th, 2005
In the past two days or so, my blog got hit with another comment spam barrage. However, this time it was very weird - most of the sites advertised were commons ones like "yahoo.com" and "bbc.co.uk". I don't think that they would actually pay some spammer to do that. Another ...
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Monday, October 24th, 2005
Since I upgraded to MT v3.2, the amount of comment and trackback spam has gone down, probably due to their blacklist lookup feature. However, since then two types of spam accounted for over 90 % of whatever got through:
1. Links to sites hosted by free adult webhosting sites called anzwers.net.
2. ...
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Tuesday, March 15th, 2005
Historically, blog spam has been used to raise search engine rankings. However, with the recent introduction of the "nofollow" directive this avenue of profit has been essentially killed off. So now comment spammers are moving over to a new area of profit: spyware (phishing and other similar stuff will probably ...
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Tuesday, March 1st, 2005
In the past day or two there were some realstic looking spam comments posted to of the entries in my blog. They looked as follows:
Most are shocked to learn just how un-secure their computer is! The recent Bugbear.B virus was a good example of a modern day virus/trojan that automatically ...
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Friday, February 11th, 2005
Following up on my earlier post about the use of email blacklists for blogs and Andy's comments, Andy and myself started thinking about how to improve blacklists and whitelists for blogs. What we came up with is "Distributed xLists" - in black, white and shades of gray. Instead of following ...
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Tuesday, February 1st, 2005
Andy's post got me thinking about publishing individual blacklists (something that Jay Allen of MT-BlackList has given up on). So, I put together a simple plugin for MovableType called "MT-Banned-List" that adds tags for generating a list of banned IP addresses. You can download version 0.1 here (just stick the ...
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Tuesday, January 18th, 2005
According to a post on Google's Official blog, a new feature will be available to fight comment spammers. Adding a "rel=nofollow" attribute to hyperlinks will prevent spammer links from being harvested by search engines. According to the post major blog software vendors are supporting this move. The solution itself is ...
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Sunday, June 27th, 2004
In the beginning there was email spam. Followed by blog comment spam. Now a new version - Wiki spam.
While checking on something in my wiki, I was suprised and dismayed to find the home page for the wiki replaced by a piece of spam adveritising an online casino. Do these ...
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Thursday, June 10th, 2004
Thanks for Maphet, I installed the MT Close Comments plugin to fight blog comment spam. We'll see how it goes...
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