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Trackbacks Hit Again
Filed under: Asides | February 1st, 2005
My entry on Trackback Spam has been getting a lot of traffic today, unfortunately. (15)
My entry on Trackback Spam has been getting a lot of traffic today, unfortunately. (15)
Jeff Minard | February 1st, 2005 @ 10:00 am | Reply
Yeah, each blog vunerable got hit by two or three spams last night. If you had p-oker blocked, or “t-exas h-oldem” they would have been caught.
Andrew Grumet | February 1st, 2005 @ 10:36 am | Reply
Lucky me, I got two hundred and fifty.
nikkiana | February 1st, 2005 @ 11:01 am | Reply
I finally got hit this time around…. Of course, I was asking for it by not disabling trackback. Sigh.
Chris G. | February 1st, 2005 @ 11:05 am | Reply
I went from about 1-2 spam a day to over 400 in a 36 hour period that ended sometime this morning. All p*o*k*e*r spam or d*i*r*e*c*t*v spam,
Today, it’s normal again…so far.
Chris G. | February 1st, 2005 @ 11:06 am | Reply
I should note. Spaminator caught every single one of them with no false positives or just as bad, none that sneaked through.
Ryan Waddell | February 1st, 2005 @ 11:21 am | Reply
I got hit with about 400 trackback spams overnight. ANd there’s been about 2000 comment spams since Sunday, but every single one of those got caught. I just disabled trackback, as I should have done long ago.
Nick | February 1st, 2005 @ 11:36 am | Reply
I got hit also on two of my sites over night and through the morning. Probably 200-300 trackback spams, but thanks to my plugins, every one of them went into moderation.
Jacques Distler | February 1st, 2005 @ 11:53 am | Reply
Many hundreds of attempts last night and this morning (two distinct spam runs). None go through, because all were sent via open proxies on the blitzed.org open proxy list (thank heavens for DNSBL blocking of trackbacks and comments!).
Eventually, I got bored and started playing games with them (the accompanying HTTP headers were quite … umh … amusing).
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Elliott Back | February 1st, 2005 @ 1:41 pm | Reply
I’ve had a few tb spams coming in, so I’m working on something that will check them against all the major blacklists, etc…eventually it will stop!!
Phil Boardman | February 1st, 2005 @ 4:09 pm | Reply
I got hit with 5. They all managed to find their way into the moderation que thanks to the spam-words list. I am very impressed with the built in anti-spam features of WP 1.2.2!
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Kevin Francis | February 2nd, 2005 @ 12:25 am | Reply
Man, that sucked. I got hit with H*o*r*s*e S*e*x porn
Kelson | February 2nd, 2005 @ 12:41 pm | Reply
<last-words class=”famous”>I’ve been lucky so far.</last-words> While I’ve had to deal with some massive comment spam runs (thank you, Spam Karma), I’ve received very little trackback spam. I’ve gotten a couple of one-off probes (the usual poker sites), but Spam Karma’s tossed them into moderation. (I still get the email, which is annoying, but not as bad as having to go in and remove the comment.)
Of course, those massive spam runs I’ve seen have been in the first or second week of each month, so I’m probably about due. Time to batton down the hatches!
kyramas | February 4th, 2005 @ 1:56 am | Reply
Kitten’s Spaminator, Spam Karma and ThreeStrikestook care of them. 3 lines of defence was enough I guess.
Thank god. Either that or they removed me from their lists !