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Spreading Comment and Trackback Spam Through Zombie Browsers

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 ...

On Comment Spam

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. ...

Fighting Trackback Spam with Email Blacklists

Tuesday, February 1st, 2005

(For MT-Banned-List plugin for publishing the internal MT IP ban list, please see this post) Overnight I got slammed by two trackback spam attacks to my blog, both lasting about two hours and originating from over 20 IPs. I added all of them to my banned list to prevent further occurrences. ...