Targeting Spam: May 2006 Archives

Targeting Spam > May 31, 2006

Spambot left on autopilot?

[Spam Huntress] register domain, spam it in the evening, configure NS records in the morning when the intended recipients will be reading the messages. Since the audience of referrer spam (as I understand) is a web spider that may revisit the link weeks or months down the road, delaying the “configure”

Just Say No to NoFollow

[engrowe.com] I am using the DoFollow WordPress plugin to remove the offending nofollows. I hesitate to modify the underlying WordPress code, and if at a later date I find it necessary, I will write a small script to do it.

Posted at 04:12 AM

May 31, 2006

Spambot left on autopilot?

Posted at 04:08 AM

May 30, 2006

Just Say No to NoFollow

Posted at 04:12 AM

Yahoo! Integrates Answers into Main SERPs

[Blog SEO | Free SEO Tips, SEO Tools, and Resources for Bloggers] Write a comment Matt Cutts has posted an article right before going on vacation addressing an ongoing issue of nofollow links (link condoms) in...

Posted at 04:10 AM

May 29, 2006

Link Spamming, Trackback Spamming and why it does not work

[Google Juice | research into how search engines work] As I’ve expressed earlier here at GoogeJuice….Spamming simply does not work and search engines are building technology to counteract those that spam against us.

Posted at 04:08 AM

Trackback-Spam.

[Chitime Blog.] /* To accomodate differing install paths of WordPress, images are referred only here, and not in the wp-layout.css file. If you prefer to use only CSS for colors and what not, then go right ahead and delete the following lines, and the image files.

Posted at 04:08 AM

May 28, 2006

Referral Karma doing it’s job

[Daves Chalkboard] Looks like RK is pulling it's weight! I got hit by over 600 referral attempts to the same web address from multiple IP addresses, all blocked!

Posted at 04:10 AM

Comment, Trackback, and Referral Spam

[Wild Mind] Interview with a link spammer is an interesting read. This link was posted on the WordPress Forums when it hit the net.

Posted at 04:09 AM

May 27, 2006

Another Way to Kill Referral Spam

[Wild Mind] Another Way to Kill Referral Spam Filed under: Referral Spam ”” Glo @ 7:58 am I have tried several different ways to stop spammers from spamming my...

Posted at 04:09 AM

Referral Karma not doing it’s job

[Daves Chalkboard] I took referrals off of the site because Referral Karma is letting a bunch of bad referrals through without any notice at all in the logs. I'm not...

Posted at 04:08 AM

May 26, 2006

Take Back the Net - Secure Your Computer!

[The Internet Patrol] Spammers, phishers and other malicious actors on the Internet are able to do the damage that they do in large part because they are able to control “botnets” - enormous networks of compromised personal computers (”zombies”) which they control from afar.

Posted at 05:32 AM

The reason i’m a standards nazi is”¦

[The_Decryptor] …because spammers can’t grok XHTML it seems, that and it’s more powerful and causes less headaches

Posted at 04:08 AM

May 25, 2006

Killing the Trackback Spam

[ The Glass is Too Big] After talking to several other site owners, it seems the sudden increase in trackback spam that this site has undergone in the last week or so isn’t...

Posted at 04:10 AM

Spammers Take Down New Linux User

[Jon Watson's Tales from the Motherboard - Blogger. Podcaster. Internet Jedi.] Comment spammers force bloggers to kill the conversation either by shutting off comments altogether, or by deleting them all as I have to do now. In either case, once the conversation is throttled, the traffic drops off, and the spammers links (which never see the light of day, anyhow) lose their effectiveness.

Posted at 04:09 AM

May 24, 2006

REFERER SPAM: hydrocodone.openswarm.com / Zen Dzign Systems

[push-back] Since we can't identify the individual responsible, and since the hosting company doesn't seem to think this abuse of third parties is a problem, all...

Posted at 04:11 AM

PRstorm for sale again

[Spam Huntress] Steve Kravchenko, the owner of PRStorm, told me this morning that he has re-listed PRStorm on eBay because of a non-paying bidder. It’s going to be another week before we know the outcome.

Posted at 04:08 AM

May 23, 2006

Blue Security Ends Aggressive Spam Fight

[HowToWeb.com: Computer, Gadget and Technology Blog and Resource] May 3, in an attempt to get out the word about the DoS, Blue Security repointed its domain to an unused blog on Six Apart's TypePad blogging service. Within minutes, PharmaMaster attacked the blog with another DoS, which brought down Six Apart and left millions without access to their blogs.

Posted at 04:10 AM

Chalk one up for the bad guys

[Incense and Senility] and contacting the spammers responsible, asking them to stop. If they didn't stop, they used automated software to fill in forms on their spammers' websites asking for their clients to be removed from lists.

Posted at 04:08 AM

May 22, 2006

A Poem About Spam

[Wild Mind] A Poem About Spam Filed under: General ”” Glo @ 3:09 pm Had a commenter leave a link to a poem that made me smile as only a blogger fighting comment...

Posted at 04:10 AM

An Online business owner speaks up on referral spamming

[Daves Chalkboard] I got a comment just now that I find rather amusing”¦ His website is: blog kimmoa se I wonder if he get's as much referral spam as we all...

Posted at 04:09 AM

May 21, 2006

Featured Referrer Spammer I

[ Blog Marketing, Blog Promotion for Newbies] Okay, I suppose I’ve had about enough of this junk. I’m going to begin to give up whatever information I can on these folks who force me to add them to the methods which block their garbage.

Posted at 04:10 AM

goldhqs over the top referrer spammer

[Spam Huntress] I’ve also received referrer spam for davincicodefun.com from that IP. Reported to their ISP abuse line and to Google Adsense, but I don’t expect a whole lot of response from either.

Posted at 04:09 AM

May 20, 2006

Akismet I Could Kiss You

[Man Bytes Hollywood] Akismet I Could Kiss You Posted @ 6:44 pm | Filed Under: Uncategorized, Asides | No Comments With tongues. Because Akismet just caught and killed 518...

Posted at 04:10 AM

I’m trying out yet ANOTHER anti comment-spam plugin

[ Kickass talks about Web Design, Templates and CSS] I’m trying out yet ANOTHER anti comment-spam plugin May 19th, 2006 Well, one thing I like about Angsuman’s Referrer Bouncer already is that it does NOT mess with comment moderation like every other anti comment spam plugin I tried did. Comments that are from posters who have not posted before (and are humans filling in the form the old fashioned way) go into moderation, which is as it should be.

Posted at 04:08 AM

May 19, 2006

When Comment Spamming Goes To Far

[ SEO Black Hat: SEO Blog] Maybe it’s a flaw with Wordpress 1.5 that allows comment spamming without a login? Is anyone else having this problem?

Posted at 04:12 AM

Spam”¦Grrr!

[Crazy Thoughts] Written by Chelle on May 18, 2006 @ 7:04 pm Pic of the Day ~Becca is Deep Thought Becca and I had an awesome day despite the fact that I feel like dung and Becca is not so hot either. We joined our Mom’s Group on a hike at the UCR Gardens.

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Posted at 04:11 AM

May 16, 2006

University Visit

[One of Those Days] I was back in Canterbury over the weekend, for a placement student get-together and general knees up with a few friends from back at uni. It was the first time I had been back since I finished my exams last May and so I was looking forward to it.

Posted at 04:20 AM

Movabletype comment throttling

[Jaanus on the internet] Ahh, the wonder of undocumented settings. Somehow I was getting “403 Throttled” error on some MT blogs I run, and wondered what’s that.

Posted at 04:19 AM

May 15, 2006

Rel = No Follow No More

[ Click Sentry Blog] In case you have been living in a cave, you don’t care or you don’t have a blog, then you have surely noticed that search engines like Yahoo! are...

Posted at 04:10 AM

NoFollow for Comments

[ - Jamdo Blog Marketing] The reason I did this is that I found out over at Andre Chaperon’s blog that Wordpress automatically has a “nofollow” command in all of the comments - something that I didn’t know.

Posted at 04:09 AM

May 14, 2006

I’ve been splogged

[ Everything Is In/Flux] I noticed on Technorati that I’ve been splogged today. This site (my first use of nofollow!) seems to have reproduced my entry from last night about...

Posted at 04:11 AM

Permanent Link to [Hot]link policy

[Mike Linksvayer] Until very recently (upon reading former Creative Commons intern Will Frank’s writeup of a brief hotlink war) I thought ‘hotlink‘ was an anachronistic way to say ‘link’

Posted at 04:10 AM

May 13, 2006

How to Enjoy Spam

[Better Living through Chemistry] I started down this path some time ago when I made some haiku out of comment spam that appeared on this blog. Another approach is this guy who started amusing himself by writing back to the spammers.

Posted at 04:19 AM

Diagnosing Exchange Delivery Problems with SMTP Status Codes

[Windows network, systems, and software Administration Tips & Tricks by Mr. Tweak - Windows Network & Admin Tweaks] With many companies (especially AOL, GMail, and Yahoo) upgrading mail servers or updating their spam filters frequently we’ve seen a big increase in how many outgoing emails are returned to us. Still, it could be your own SMTP, DNS, or anti-spam settings that are causing the problem.

Posted at 04:09 AM

May 12, 2006

Akismet, how I love thee

[ara pehlivanian””Web Standards, Web Culture, Web Everything.â™] Fast forward to about a month ago and suddenly my post Proper URI design started to gain the attention not of fellow web-heads, but of spammer-freaks. Who knows, it could have been my immensely popular post on Coming soon to a theatre near you (I confess, I dugg my own post) that opened me up to the non-web-head crowd.

Posted at 04:11 AM

Fairy tale spammer

[Spam Huntress] I had a quiet moment at work, and decided to check on one of my regular spammers. This one seems to like fairy tale beginnings. Often kinda weird. Always sounds intrigueing, but formulaic. On my blog he’s mostly posting comments on ONE post, and he uses this user agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1) What is a constant, is his IP number: 194.44.198.45 Jazz.Franko.Lviv.UA We should all block this one. He uses subdomains of what appear to be his own sites, protected whois. He appears to be affilate 2179, subaffiliate 17 at your-needs.info I’ve never seen that affiliate scheme, so not sure I buy it - yet. That site has links going to peakclick, the same affiliate number. And the whois info for your-needs.info seems phony. your-needs.info: Domain ID:D12123766-LRMS Domain Name:YOUR-NEEDS.INFO Created On:15-Feb-2006 13:48:13 UTC Last Updated On:16-Apr-2006 20:35:56 UTC Expiration Date:15-Feb-2007 13:48:13 UTC Sponsoring Registrar:Direct Information Pvt. Ltd. d/b/a...

Posted at 04:08 AM

May 11, 2006

REFERER SPAM: thinkingincome.com / thinkingincome.net / decisionpay.com / fastcashinforeclosures.info / paid4say.com / pay4say

[push-back] A simple fraudulent-referer attack, dating to 12 March. Pretty sure the phone numbers are fraudulent too, but I could be wrong.

Posted at 04:10 AM

Clueless referrer spammer

[Spam Huntress] I don’t get much referrer spam these days, so running this down was a worthy cause. Get this, they send loads of referrers quickly, from the same IP address, using loads of different user agents, then switch to another IP address and then back.

Posted at 04:09 AM

May 10, 2006

Blog Comment Spam

[No colour hat seo blog - Another moron blog, seo from scratch] The moral of the seo story, it contains a lot of links, inbound links, if successfully…hohohohohoho…Unfortunately, if the related information sent to their webhosting services, those sites having potential to be removed or banned…so be careful…

Posted at 04:09 AM

Bad Behavior 2 Update

[Lunacy Unleashed] That being said, as you may know if you got that email I sent to you a few days ago, the wiki spam I was getting did have a certain http header pattern. I don’t know if what I saw was typical but only the bots were doing it so I felt pretty confident about adding a filter for it to bad-behavior-http-headers.php.

Posted at 04:09 AM

May 09, 2006

Semi-Clever Title/Allusion: Expanded Description to Explain Semi-Clever Title/Allusion

[Colter’s Journal | Little Rock blog, photoblog, photo journal, Arkansas] I just wanted to write something like that as a title. It’s such a popular format for essays, theses, and conferences.

Posted at 04:10 AM

The Real Blue Frog/Typepad Timeline, Warts and All

[trimMail's Email Battles: Spam, Security, Privacy, Spyware, Phishing & Viruses from the Front Lines.] It is not a fair or an ethical decision," Underwood said, adding that it is hard to imagine that Blue Security didn't know it was being hit with a DDoS attack when it pointed its URL to the blog site.Long time spam fighter CAUCE board member John Levine agrees. As chairman of the Internet Anti-Spam Research Group, a board member on Coalition Against Unsolicited Commercial Email (CAUCE) and co-author of Fighting Spam for Dummies, Levine has spent a good deal of time fighting spam.

Posted at 04:08 AM

May 08, 2006

Blog Spammers Getting Crafty

[a boy named goo] Now, there is another growing trend in spam, blog spamming. Blog spamming is when spammers leave spam as comments on blogs.

Posted at 04:09 AM

Activating Akismet anti-spam plugin

[Coder’s Eye] If you are using Wordpress, and you aren’t using the built-in plugin “Akismet”, are you insane? Or are you a bit confused about that API Key thing you need?

Posted at 04:08 AM

May 07, 2006

Inside the life of a link spammer

[Hawk Wings] But I speak to the top seven or eight link spammers, and they don’t use bot PCs. People who do blog spamming won’t be doing email spamming.” Using proxy servers, Sam argues, is legal.

Posted at 04:13 AM

Comment Spam

[ Ashbaugh Online - Driven by the passion of technology] Lately I’ve been getting a lot. Just today I went to look, and I had 69 comments, 68 of which were spam.

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Posted at 04:11 AM

May 06, 2006

The Blue Frog vs PharmaMaster

[the LOOSE wire blog] I’ve been trying to make some sense of this recent drama involving Blue Security, an anti-spam registry that effectively tries to deter uncooperative spammers by overwhelming their servers, and recent outages at TypePad and LiveJournal apparently caused by a revenge attack by spammers on Blue Security. (Here’s some more information on Blue Security and the Blue Frog.) The outages were caused when Blue Security redirected the spammers’

Posted at 04:11 AM

Fighting Fire with Fire Results in...Fire!

[Technocrat.net] Good intentions combined with a sense of righteous outrage backfired the other day when an anti SPAM outfit came under concerted DDoS attack, then "shifted" the incoming. The company pushes a way to fight back against SPAM, using the alleged "opt out" email addresses as targets and flooding them with "yep, I want to opt out" messages.

Posted at 04:09 AM

May 05, 2006

Referrer Spam

[blog.websolvers : notes, thoughts, and comments on Business & Internet Strategy from WebSolvers] We've been getting a ton of referrer spam lately on our blog. Our traffic (albeit bad traffic) is surging and so is our bandwidth consumption.

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Posted at 04:15 AM

Bandwidth leeches. Rejected!

[Waveflux] That little exchange from the classic Clint Eastwood film pretty much sums up my attitude towards those search engine-guided idlers who have - wittingly or not - battened onto my bandwidth of late, stealing my precious money. Nearly all of these dinner guests came by way of Google's image search, which has quickly become the bane of many a webmaster because it exposes sites to grubby little hotlinkers and the like.

Posted at 04:12 AM

May 04, 2006

Why I like Movable Type's spam protection

[Neil's World - Put it in your | and smoke it] Here's why I like the junk filtering in Movable Type 3.2. The screenshot is from an item of trackback spam, and though most of my comment and...

Posted at 04:12 AM

Musing on trackback spam (or the absence of same)

[Waveflux] Ah, but it's a joyous sight: a list of parasites, lamers, and losers, all hoping to steal my precious money. All desperate to plaster my blog with links regarding credit cards, teen porn, diet pills, more porn, ringtones, blackjack and poker, and (of course) various erectile dysfunction remedies.

Posted at 04:11 AM

May 03, 2006

Do you want any pills, mate?

[ tossr] As an aside, my blog attracted 26 spam comments last week, the vast majority of which were advertising assorted pharmaceuticals; chiefly, ones that...

Posted at 04:13 AM

Anti-Spam

[photogabble.co.uk] Ive seen an explosion of spam on my website up from 10 a week to 10 a day. Not that it shows, I shall never allow any spam what so ever take my website.

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Posted at 04:12 AM

May 02, 2006

Are Trackbacks Dead?

[Hillside Meditations] Via Chetan Ckunte´ s blog and BlogaholicsI came upon this thread, apparently started by Tom Coates of plasticbag.org: Ongoing is a discussion whether...

Posted at 04:10 AM

New Type Of Spam - Referral Spam

[Connected Internet News | Broadband Mobile Gaming News] In my meeting with Kim she told me about a new type of spam which at the moment blogware are calling referral spam. Basically this is where spammers link to your website in the hope that when you check out your referral stats you will click on the link to see who they are.

Posted at 04:08 AM