Archive for the Tag: spam

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Quickie: 04/19/2008 12:09:18am

Published on Saturday, April 19th, 2008 at 12:10am.

Over 300 message in my Gmail spam folder. A new personal record. I can’t stand it right now, but I’m going to try and hold out for 500. (...)

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Spam.la

Published on Tuesday, June 5th, 2007 at 3:29pm.

Fight Spam, use an anonymous email address at spam.la, from DreamHost. Useful if an email address is required and you never want to receive email from a site. (...)

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Spammers Attack

Published on Monday, April 30th, 2007 at 11:20pm.

Over the past week I’ve had a problem with spammers hitting my comment form hardcore both here and at 2 Hole Cards so hard it was crashing the web host server. They had to disable the sites and it looks like the spammers have moved along. Just to help out for future attacks, I’ve upgraded to the latest and greatest testing version of WordPress and added Spam Karma 2.3 as a new plugin. (...)

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Predicting the Future

Published on Wednesday, April 5th, 2006 at 1:43pm.

I guess Chase bank can predict the future because I just received an email from them with the following… Your online credit card account has high-risk activity status. We are contacting you to remind that on April 08 2006 our Account Review Team identified some unusual activity in your account. Hell, I don’t even have a Chase account and never had. (...)

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Stop Comment Spam and Trackback Spam

Published on Wednesday, October 26th, 2005 at 10:47pm.

With Akismet from Automattic or more specifically Matt Mullenweg. I just purchased a Pro-blogger license for an entire year and installed the WordPress plugin on all of my blogs. I removed my other spam prevention plugins, turned off the Comment author must have a previously approved comment option in WP, and even deleted my comment spam word blacklist. (...)

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Gmail Spam

Published on Wednesday, September 7th, 2005 at 8:08am.

Today I received a spam email at my work address from a Gmail address for the first time. I sure hope Gmail doesn’t turn into a Hotmail or Yahoo. (...)

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Kill Spammers

Published on Tuesday, July 26th, 2005 at 11:26am.

An entirely new meaning to “kill spammers.” (...)

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No Spam

Published on Friday, April 1st, 2005 at 9:48am.

On February 14th, I upgraded MtDewVirus to WordPress 1.5 and on February 27th, I deactivated all spam prevention plugins. I was kind of curious how many comments, trackbacks, and pingbacks have been flagged as spam by my WP install, so I just took a look. It’s April 1st, but this is no joke…I have 10,000 spam comments sitting in my database. (...)

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It’s Working

Published on Sunday, February 27th, 2005 at 10:36pm.

Comment left by a spammer today… I don’t think your site is working. (...)

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WordPress Fights Spam

Published on Sunday, February 27th, 2005 at 12:18pm.

As I mentioned on Friday, I had deactivated my spam prevention plugins. It’s been about 60 hours, but all of spam fighting techniques that are built into WordPress are working extremely well. One thing I noticed however was pingbacks automatically being approved. I had trackbacks moderated by a plugin I wrote, but otherwise they would have been approved also. (...)

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Fight the Spam

Published on Friday, February 25th, 2005 at 8:33am.

Last night I deactivated the WP Hashcash plugin here and at 2 Hole Cards to see how it goes. As of right now, the only spam plugin I have activated is my moderate trackback plugin. We’ll see how the spam prevention measures that are built into WordPress do. (...)

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Trackback Spammers Are Back

Published on Tuesday, February 1st, 2005 at 8:54am.

The trackback spammers are back in full force. When I checked my email this morning I had over 180 and it’s continuing through the morning at a rate of several per minute. Talk about a pain in the ass! Don’t they realize that their info isn’t every getting onto the site. It’s getting flagged and caught in the moderation queue. Keep it up jackasses! (...)

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WordPress Plugins: Trackback And Pingback Moderation

Published on Thursday, January 6th, 2005 at 1:11am.

These two plugins basically do the same thing, but I wanted to keep them seperate. When you turn one on, it will automatically place either all NEW trackbacks or all NEW pingbacks (depending on the plugin) into the comment moderation queue. It’s meant as a simple way to keep the spammers from getting these onto your site without you first approving them. (...)

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Trackback Spam

Published on Wednesday, January 5th, 2005 at 1:48pm.

Now that I’ve gotten a handle on the comment spam taking over my blogs, I’m getting hit through other means. Trackbacks! I found a few hooks in the WP code that I can plug into, so tonight I plan to whip up a few plugins so that pingbacks and trackbacks can automatically be put into the moderation queue. At least that’s what I hope to accomplish. (...)

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Stop The Comment Spam

Published on Sunday, January 2nd, 2005 at 2:16pm.

Hopefully comment spam is a thing of the past. I want to apologize to anyone who has attempted to comment recently and has been redirected to the FBI’s site. I think my comment spam checking system was going a little haywire from all of the spammers and it was flagging some of you that were attempting to leave legitimate comments. (...)

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WordPress Comment SPAM Plugins

Published on Friday, October 29th, 2004 at 8:46am.

I’m now using two plugins to help me combat comment SPAM. The first is Kitten’s Spam Words, which gives you an easy way to delete comments and mark them as spam at the same time. This helps to create a list of comment spam words in WordPress so that further comments will automatically be held for moderation. The second plugin is Mark Ghosh’s Three Strikes Spam Protection. (...)

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SPAM Comments

Published on Thursday, October 28th, 2004 at 7:51pm.

After some recent flooding of SPAM comments on all of my blogs I’ve started to take some preventive measures. I have much mor work to do, I’ve started flagging a few things. In the future, if you notice that when you comment it doesn’t show up right away, you’ve probably used a word or something I have flagged and I’ll approve your comment as soon as I can. (...)

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Ultimate SPAM Filter

Published on Wednesday, October 20th, 2004 at 11:57am.

Lately the SPAM coming through to my work email address has dropped off considerably. Well…today while troubleshooting a problem with my email I found out that I was blocking all email from the svsu.edu domain. Nearly 400 messages had been blocked so far…whoops! (...)

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Comment SPAM Protection

Published on Sunday, February 15th, 2004 at 11:20am.

I just installed a hack by Mark (Laughing Lizard) on my site to filter comments. Believe it or not, there are people out there that will visit blogs and post comments advertising viagra or other such things. This hack is designed to help prevent this from happening. If an address or certain words are recognized, the comment will be marked and will not appear until I allow it too. (...)

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