Targeting Spam: January 2007 Archives

Targeting Spam > January 31, 2007

Trackback Spammer

[ A Daily Rant] I think what I’m going to do is if a message is flagged as spam, go ahead and have it grab the tech and abuse contacts, the cidr range, and perhaps a few other useful bits, and include it in the notification e-mail (since despite my blacklist I had 24 attempted spams over night, and I don’t even have any readers!)Perhaps I could get a little IP blacklist going by cidr range.

Special Spammer

[ A Daily Rant] I USED to have a guestbook on one of my sites about 2 or 3 years ago. To prove my point on just how stupid these groups are - just take a look at the user-agent…..

Posted at 04:08 AM

January 31, 2007

Trackback Spammer

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Special Spammer

[ A Daily Rant] I USED to have a guestbook on one of my sites about 2 or 3 years ago. To prove my point on just how stupid these groups are - just take a look at the user-agent…..

Posted at 04:08 AM

January 30, 2007

40,000

[Yet Another Web Site] Since January 16, 2006, over 40,000 attempts to post comment spam to this site have been logged. That’s 1,000 spam comments since January 21, 2007 and 10,000 since November 18, 2006.

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Posted at 04:10 AM

Spam, lies and mailing lists

[BobStovall.com | internet marketing tips and tricks, tools, web hosting] A few months ago, I had a spam issue with Larry Goins, Real Estate guru, who was slamming me with spam sent to an email address of mine that he had no business having (I have kept the emails on record). The email address was never, I repeat never, given to anyone for any purpose and appeared only in the DNS (whois) records of several domains.

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January 29, 2007

Will blog comment spam and trackback spam kill the global conversation?

[Disruptive Conversations] Thanks to spammers, there are definitely some days that I do wonder whether I have the stamina to continue to engage in the "conversation" that is so much a part of social media. Take today...

Posted at 04:09 AM

Referral spam

[jforsythe.com : weblog] It works on the principal that Technorati scrubs web and blog content in order to find links back to your content and thereby become the intermediary provider of 'approved referrals'. They hardly scan the known Web let alone the unknown, but I suppose it is better than the raw spammy world that exists today.

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January 28, 2007

WordPress Optimisation: Block WordPress Referral Spam

[ Connected Internet] Matt: lets say my site was bobs-sexy-goblins.com and we’d banned goblins :P….i’d be told to f off and sent (back) to bobs-sexy-goblins.com, and your site doesn’t accept it, they dont see your site, apache is at ease oh and please don’t think i have a sexual infatuation with goblins - that was purely random and meant to be slightly amusing

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What’s rel=”nofollow”?

[ On Influence and Automation] If you’re as picky as I am about approving comments, you only allow comments in your blog that add to the conversation. If one of my readers throws a link in there to a great tool or another post that may support or argue what my post is about, that site does deserve credit that they are being referenced.

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January 27, 2007

Will an Army of Captcha-Solvers Be Unleashed on Web 2.0

[One Laptop Per Child News] But he said that the one thing that did give him pause was the possibility that rival blog spammers might start paying people in developing countries to fill in captchas: they could always use a bit of western cash, would have the spare time and, increasingly, cheap internet connections to be able to do such tedious (but paid) work.Feel that fear too? The horror in imagining a millions-strong army of OLPC-enabled captcha-solvers unleashed on Web 2.0, filling blog comments with spam that no automated filter could stop.

Posted at 04:11 AM

Wikipedia Adds Google nofollow

[Clickfire Webmaster News] Search Engine Journal has confirmed that Google methods of avoiding spam are being integrated into Wikipedia. The nofollow attribute introduced by Google in 2005 was originally intended to hamstring blog comment spam and has since been the source of much wrangling and discussion by SEO’s as to what exactly it does and which search engines have truly adopted the standard.

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January 26, 2007

Building Authority Websites The Right Way

[knox - denver web guy] So, building a strategy for site wide SEO is more than building a site you hope gains authority status. First, you need to construct a hub.

Posted at 04:11 AM

Akismet, Spam Karma 2, Captcha, etc which works best for you?

[ Journal of Useful Tips] Currently I use Spam Karma 2 from Dr Dave, and it works well for me, but I’m still curious about your experience in using other anti-spam solution for your blog.

Posted at 04:09 AM

January 24, 2007

Blogspot Spam

[Dallas IT Support Blog: Architel] spammers are creating blogspot accounts and when you go to them they redirect to the real payload site (in my case, pharmaspam). Google ought to be able to help out with this. They own Blogspot, so I would expect that they should be able to shut down blogspot accounts that redirect to known spam sites. They would just need to leverage their Gmail filtering service.

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Posted at 04:09 AM

Ironport Blocker available from Dell

[Dallas IT Support Blog: Architel] Architel is recommending all clients migrate to Ironport’s Blocker and we now have a contact at Ironport who can provide information about the Dell supplied solution. Her name is Suzanne Fleming and she can be reached at 512-689-9259.

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January 23, 2007

WordPress 2.1 Released

[cavemonkey50.com] backend has been completely overhauled, meaning WordPress is now faster and more efficient. Let’s hope that translates into more unused resources for web hosts and less sites going down due to the Digg Effect.

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I GUESS YOU GUYZ ARE GONNA HAVE TO GET USED TO MY 82035235 POSTS A DAY. :')

[STARS SHINING OUT] But if you all really hate it go ahead and de-friend me. Cause I'm a horrible scary spammer. D| I'm sorry for bothering you all. *bows* I AM TIREDLY...

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January 21, 2007

Blog comment spam: how do you cope with the tidal wave?

[ Antwerp Calling] However, Wordpress is blessed with a most efficient robust distributed approach to comment spam: Akismet, which uses API keys to assign trust to nodes and has wide distribution as a result of being bundled with the 2.0 release of WordPress. Combined with manual comment approval, not one single spam comment has gotten through.

Posted at 04:09 AM

January 20, 2007

Werbekunden gewinnen

[Yoda’s Blog] Werbekunden gewinnen Januar 13th, 2007 geschrieben von Roman Hanhart Ideen muss man haben! Und diese dann auch noch auf den Punkt bringen.

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January 19, 2007

WordPress.com Snaps Bloggers

[ Awakened Voice Blog] File this one under annoyances that need to go away now! There’s a service out there called Snap that I despise with a passion.

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My Favourite WordPress Plugins

[Vincent Rich » Internet Marketing Blog] to pave the way for a better year ahead. About one year ago, I updated my blog template and plugins.

Posted at 04:08 AM

January 18, 2007

Sago Networks Trackback Spammer

[ A Daily Rant] Sago Networks Trackback Spammer Posted by willmacc under Blog Spam , spam , c-ya-later bin , bad-bots , trackback spam No Comments New Trackback...

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January 17, 2007

Comment Spam on the rise

[Miles’ Blog - Thoughts and errata from Miles Burke.] As with email spamming and Usenet spamming in the nineties, blog comment spamming is on the rise as more people get easier access to the tools, and more lists of blogs, etc are made available. I haven’t seen statistical evidence, but I would assume the effectiveness of the actual spam, and the spams actually getting through to recipients or blog comment areas are in a reverse curve to these broadcast statistics, as more and more software tools for each style and type of spam get released.

Posted at 04:11 AM

January 16, 2007

Continue On Fighting Spams

[hwa2u.com] Remember the fighting spams article i wrote the other day? So far my spam forces are doing well, they reduced the spam a bit and my...

Posted at 04:13 AM

Spam Karma 2 May Be A More Helpful Comment Spam Blocker Than Akismet

[ Business and Blogging - How blogs work for business] Spam Karma 2 (SK2) is an anti-spam plugin for the WordPress blogging platform. It is meant to stop all forms of automated Blog spam effortlessly, while remaining as unobtrusive as possible to regular commenters.

Posted at 04:11 AM

January 15, 2007

Your January 9th 10th Morning Coffee

[Liquidmatrix Security Digest] I apologize for that. That being said, be sure to read up on the patches that were released yesterday from Microsoft.

Posted at 04:11 AM

2007.01.11 Daily Security Reading

[ Rodney Campbell’s Blog] According to GFI, a leading provider of network security, content security and messaging software, every IT manager should make it part of their New Year’s Resolution to protect their networks from the following threats in 2007.

Posted at 04:10 AM

January 14, 2007

Pic Spam -Others

[Cassie] Mom: Charlie: Tipper:...

Posted at 04:11 AM

How to phish

[Freedom To Differ] EMC's RSA division reports that its Anti-Fraud Detection Center (AFCC) found the 'universal man-in-the-middle phishing kit' being offered in a free demonstration version on a criminal forum monitored by the company.

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Posted at 04:10 AM

January 13, 2007

Too Much Spam - Blacklisting .info because it gets through Akismet

[ //engtech] info domain was created in late 2000 / early 2001. Since then it has been very popular with over 3 million registered sites.

Posted at 04:09 AM

Blocking Spam and Spyware For Dummies

[Home of Best Free Ebooks Download] Whether yours is a one-person business or a multi-million dollar corporation, here’s help giving spammers and spies the bum’s rush. Two veterans of the spam wars help you analyze your situation, choose the right solutions, set up and maintain them, and even show the bean-counters why such defenses are essential.

Posted at 04:08 AM

January 12, 2007

PROPOSAL FOR PORN DOMAIN REVIVED !

[flametree.blog-city.com] The proposal was given approval in June 2005 by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (Icann) which oversees the net's addressing system. Final approval was scheduled to take place in December 2005 but this was delayed until May 2006 when the proposal was abruptly dropped.

Posted at 04:11 AM

How to Benefit from Comment Spam

[Free Website Content] Comment spam is annoying. Here’s a quick piece on how to turn the tables on the comment spammers and use their comments to your advantage instead of...

Posted at 04:10 AM

January 11, 2007

2007 Predictions

[Just a Gwai Lo | prediction fatigue] Specifically either a META tag on external links, whether on user profile or in photo annotation, description or comments. This to counter its use to increase search engine ranking.

Posted at 04:09 AM

Best of Feeds - 36 links - programming, humor, career, rss, windows, google

[ //engtech] While in the past we have lauded RSS as the next great thing after email, it really is nothing more but another way to read sites. In fact, RSS has been around in one form or another for a very long time.

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January 10, 2007

Akismet, Spam Karma 2, Captcha, etc which works best for you?

[ (Journal of Useful Tips)] Currently I use Spam Karma 2 from Dr Dave, and it works well for me, but I’m still curious about your experience in using other anti-spam solution for your blog.

Posted at 04:10 AM

Stopping Spam

[ A Daily Rant] Now, Layered Shit-Technologies has sent out 2 million spamming emails and pro-rate the acts of spamming blogs, guestbooks, and wikis at another 2 million.

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January 09, 2007

Trackback spam is still on the raise”¦

[The Life of Nerdlinger] as you can see by checking links on “Who links here” at right sidebar”¦ in fact NONE or mostly none of those sites link here, they simply use...

Posted at 04:10 AM

Cogent PSI and Sproose

[ A Daily Rant] Cogent is a multinational Tier 1 Internet service provider ranked as the largest Ethernet Service Provider in the United States by Ovum-RHK and consistently ranked as one of the top five networks in the world. Our primary service offering consists of Internet access, data transport, colocation and managed modem services-all offered over our award-winning fiber optic, IP data-only network.

Posted at 04:09 AM

January 08, 2007

Thank You, Akismet

[ Maszman Speaks!] Thank You, Akismet Tags: Wordpress, Akismet, comment spam Share This

Posted at 04:11 AM

Screw you, comments spammers

[amd on software - stuff for nerds, news that matters] Thanks to Spam Karma 2 and Askimet, my various Wordpress blogs’ comments are 100% spam free from automated spam. So comment spammers, piss off and bother somebody else.

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January 07, 2007

YourMinis Attracting Porn?

[ Not So Relevant] Just when I had reduced spam to one or two spam emails per week on my email accounts I made the fatal decision to start a blog. I was pretty sure...

Posted at 04:14 AM

Testing My New SCode MT Turing Test

[Chris Abraham - Because the Medium is the Message] I just downloaded and installed SCode on this Movable Type blog because comment spammers are becoming too smart for all of my spam blockers. Hopefully this will curtail the spam.

Posted at 04:13 AM

January 06, 2007

New Site Features

[ Connected Internet] Having a stable server for the last few days has allowed me to finish the site design work I wanted to do over Christmas. I’m quite happy with the results and I think the template is subtly cleaner and more efficient, and the navigation links have been improved considerably, and I’ve already seen the benefits in site usage.

Posted at 04:15 AM

Spoofing Sucks

[AirHead] I tried to come up with a more imaginative title for this post but I'm annoyed and the bluntness works for me. Spoofing sucks.

Posted at 04:14 AM

January 05, 2007

Christmas Day Spammers

[ A Daily Rant] Christmas Day Spammers ”¦they made the list”¦ ======================================== IP Address : 216.23.195.154 Country : USA - Texas Network Name :...

Posted at 04:13 AM

Permanent Link to Spammers, go die!

[AhPek.Com] What is it with those spammers? If they want to get traffic to their site, there are many easier and cheaper ways.

Posted at 04:10 AM

January 04, 2007

Comcast Spammers Update

[ A Daily Rant] I’ve posted on this before, but here it is again - Comcast spamming servers (not just hsd1 servers).

Posted at 04:11 AM

New Year Spammers

[ A Daily Rant] New Year Spammers Posted by willmacc under Blog Spam , spam , splog , c-ya-later bin , bad-bots , scraper , crawler , trackback spam No Comments Spammers start the new year off with a bang, but the same old shit-heads doing the spamming ======================================== IP Address : 198.133.178.1 Country : USA - New Mexico Network Name : CNMNETWORK Owner Name : Central New Mexico Community College From IP : 198.133.178.0 To IP : 198.133.183.255 Allocated : Yes Whois Source : ARIN Host Name : Resolved Name : CIDR : 198.133.178.0/23 CIDR : 198.133.180.0/22 ======================================== IP Address : 200.42.216.147 Country : Dominican Republic Network Name : DO-TRIC-LACNIC Owner Name : TRICOM From IP : 200.42.192.0 To IP : 200.42.223.255 Allocated : Yes Whois Source : LACNIC Host Name : Resolved Name : adsl-216-147.tricom.net CIDR : 200.42.192.0/19 ======================================== IP Address : 200.74.217.203 Country : Venezuela Network Name : VE-DTCA-LACNIC Owner...

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January 03, 2007

Spam Does Work

[Flying Hamster] computerworld.com “…The gist of the study is that spam e-mail touting a little known stock actually drives enough people to buy that the stock price moves. A spammer that invests before unleashing the stock-touting spam reduces the risks of market timing and direction of price movement, resulting in returns of approximately 5.79% in only 2 days.

Posted at 04:12 AM

Newsletters and Spam

[The Liminal Librarian] I'm in the middle of an escalating incident report with AOL, but meanwhile, do feel free to read the online version, subscribe to the RSS feed, or unsubscribe and resubscribe with an alternate address. Thanks, and sorry for the inconvenience!

Posted at 04:10 AM

Targeting Spam > January 31, 2007

Trackback Spammer

Special Spammer

January 31, 2007

Trackback Spammer

Special Spammer

January 30, 2007

40,000

Spam, lies and mailing lists

January 29, 2007

Will blog comment spam and trackback spam kill the global conversation?

Referral spam

January 28, 2007

WordPress Optimisation: Block WordPress Referral Spam

What’s rel=”nofollow”?

January 27, 2007

Will an Army of Captcha-Solvers Be Unleashed on Web 2.0

Wikipedia Adds Google nofollow

January 26, 2007

Building Authority Websites The Right Way

Akismet, Spam Karma 2, Captcha, etc which works best for you?

January 24, 2007

Blogspot Spam

Ironport Blocker available from Dell

January 23, 2007

WordPress 2.1 Released

I GUESS YOU GUYZ ARE GONNA HAVE TO GET USED TO MY 82035235 POSTS A DAY. :')

January 21, 2007

Blog comment spam: how do you cope with the tidal wave?

January 20, 2007

Werbekunden gewinnen

January 19, 2007

WordPress.com Snaps Bloggers

My Favourite WordPress Plugins

January 18, 2007

Sago Networks Trackback Spammer

January 17, 2007

Comment Spam on the rise

January 16, 2007

Continue On Fighting Spams

Spam Karma 2 May Be A More Helpful Comment Spam Blocker Than Akismet

January 15, 2007

Your January 9th 10th Morning Coffee

2007.01.11 Daily Security Reading

January 14, 2007

Pic Spam -Others

How to phish

January 13, 2007

Too Much Spam - Blacklisting .info because it gets through Akismet

Blocking Spam and Spyware For Dummies

January 12, 2007

PROPOSAL FOR PORN DOMAIN REVIVED !

How to Benefit from Comment Spam

January 11, 2007

2007 Predictions

Best of Feeds - 36 links - programming, humor, career, rss, windows, google

January 10, 2007

Akismet, Spam Karma 2, Captcha, etc which works best for you?

Stopping Spam

January 09, 2007

Trackback spam is still on the raise”¦

Cogent PSI and Sproose

January 08, 2007

Thank You, Akismet

Screw you, comments spammers

January 07, 2007

YourMinis Attracting Porn?

Testing My New SCode MT Turing Test

January 06, 2007

New Site Features

Spoofing Sucks

January 05, 2007

Christmas Day Spammers

Permanent Link to Spammers, go die!

January 04, 2007

Comcast Spammers Update

New Year Spammers

January 03, 2007

Spam Does Work

Newsletters and Spam

What’s rel=”nofollow”?