Comments on: Spam on the rise again?

By: Abu Aaminah

Abu Aaminah — Sun, 03 Jul 2005 13:56:23 +0000

Just set up my blog and am not looking forward to the possibility of spam.

As prevention is better than cure, any advice on what i should do?

By: Recipher

Recipher — Mon, 20 Jun 2005 17:18:04 +0000

Looks like the nofollow attribute isn’t deterring spammers. I’ve been relatively lucky with my blog, maybe because of the lack of backlinks to mine (unsure). I feel sorry for you guys that are getting hit hard.

By: Dave

Dave — Mon, 20 Jun 2005 15:36:20 +0000

I’ve recently experienced recieving comments from spoofed WP blogs. Specifically, I got a comment that was more or less topic related so my filters let it through. Following the commenter’s URL, I foundd a WP install with a few posts that were more or less copy and pastes from news sites and tons of spam related links and pop-ups. I’ll refrain from specifics because I don’t want to get booted by any filter you might have, but think of the top 10 offending keywords and you’ll have a good idea of what this page was loaded with.

By: Elana

Elana — Mon, 20 Jun 2005 12:54:11 +0000

I’ve gotten my first trackback and comment spams the past couple of weeks. I switched to WP from blogger in March.

By: Joe

Joe — Sun, 19 Jun 2005 18:51:13 +0000

No increase of spam over here.
But then, nobody reads this blog anyway.

By: Chris Curtis

Chris Curtis — Sun, 19 Jun 2005 14:30:25 +0000

Yes, huge increase in spam over last two weeks, from twenty a day to many hundreds.

By: IO ERROR

IO ERROR — Sat, 18 Jun 2005 23:23:29 +0000

Paula, thanks for the mention. Spam is definitely up; I've been under a referrer spam attack for almost four days now. Some of the sites where I monitor this sort of thing have reported a tenfold increase in spam, and Bad Behavior has so far made the rise in spam attacks virtually unnoticeable. Unless you're actually looking for it. But who wants spam?

By: PaulaO

PaulaO — Sat, 18 Jun 2005 21:45:24 +0000

The Friday before Memorial Weekend, I had 144 spams caught by SK2. Starting that night and up until about four days ago, that number jumped up to 7436. At one point, I was getting over 300 an hour.

I activated Bad Behavior and after a brief trickle of about fifty more, they’ve stopped.

By: Geoffrey Sneddon

Geoffrey Sneddon — Sat, 18 Jun 2005 15:06:36 +0000

My anti-comment spam measures seem to have eliminated that, and I’m using plugins to direct trackbacks and pings into the moderation queue, which is where I’m getting plenty of spam from.

By: Geren

Geren — Fri, 17 Jun 2005 22:25:18 +0000

Yeah, I’ve noticed it, too. Where it’s worst on my site is in trackback pings and in what I refer to ass “stats spam,” or referrer spam. Makes me nuts. I’m redirecting all the referrer spammers to the FBI’s internet abuse page.