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Targeting Spam > June 29, 2009

Spam Karma, the Most Powerful Plugin to Kill Spam Comment

[Izzue's Contemplation] It is meant to stop all forms of automated Blog spam effortlessly, while remaining as unobtrusive as possible to regular commenters. Spam Karma 2 is the proud successor to Spam Karma, with whom it shares most of the development ideas, but absolutely none of the code

Flopping Aces » Blog Archive » Ice Cream, while Iran Screams

[Flopping Aces] Occasionally, a comment is incorrectly classified as spam by Spam Karma 2. These are recovered as I learn of them.

Posted at 04:01 PM

June 29, 2009

Spam Karma, the Most Powerful Plugin to Kill Spam Comment

Posted at 04:02 PM

Flopping Aces » Blog Archive » Ice Cream, while Iran Screams

[Flopping Aces] Occasionally, a comment is incorrectly classified as spam by Spam Karma 2. These are recovered as I learn of them.

Posted at 04:01 PM

June 26, 2009

Reducing Wordpress Comment Spam

[Web Affiliate Marketing Blog] Over the past few weeks, I’ve seen a slow but steady increase in comment spam on my blog which although being caught by Spam Karma, is still annoying, taking up my time and I’m aware that Spam Karma is no longer being developed, .

Posted at 04:34 PM

Motorola and AT&T together introduce the Motorola Karma - TechShout

[Tech Shout!] With features such as text messaging, instant messaging and home screen access to social networking sites the Motorola Karma ensures complete connectivity. It is armed with a slide-out QWERTY keyboard and a high resolution display.

Posted at 04:33 PM

June 22, 2009

KattyBlackyard IP: 89.28.14.35 in massive blog spam attack ...

[Security Watch - Internet Security News: IT security, Business security, Computer security, Network security, and more] That fact that the current wave of spam attacks from this IP does not link to a spam site suggests that it may be being used to identify potential future targets - with those blogs and/or forums publishing the spam compiled into a list for unrelenting spam attacks later on.

Posted at 04:05 PM

ThreatBlog » Blog Archive » Blog Spam? No Comment”¦.

[ThreatBlog] that it’s pretty clear to me that the spammer hasn’t actually read them) and incorporating links to meds sites or to a movie promotional site. It seems that one very high profile electronics and media company might have moved on from rootkits for Digital Rights Management to comment spam to promote underperforming movies.

Posted at 04:03 PM

June 19, 2009

Google Further Clarifies Nofollow and PageRank Sculpting - Search ...

[Search Engine Watch Blog] The notion of "PageRank sculpting" has always been a second- or third-order recommendation for us. I would recommend the first-order things to pay attention to are 1) making great content that will attract links in the first place, and 2) choosing a site architecture that makes your site usable/crawlable for humans and search engines alike.

Posted at 04:33 PM

Google Changed How It Handles Nofollow (And How It Might Affect Blogs)

[Daily Blog Tips] I am clueless in SEO, never paid much attention to link practices and openly against nofollow. My blog has PR 4 in the end.

Posted at 04:32 PM

June 15, 2009

Comment on PingBack Spam | Wordpress Spam Karma Plugin Tweaks to ...

[Comments for SiteSalary Blog] Whenever you moderate a comment in Spam Karma it will automatically add the domain and some other details to a blacklist.

Posted at 04:02 PM

Comment on PingBack Spam | Wordpress Spam Karma Plugin Tweaks to ...

[Comments for SiteSalary Blog] A PingBack occurs when another Wordpress site links to a post on your own wordpress site. A quote from the post that linked to your site is published as a comment on your site with a link back to the site that linked to you.

Posted at 04:01 PM

June 12, 2009

Referrer Spam - From SEDO !!!!

[BFG's Blog» Referrer Spam - From SEDO !!!! : Courtesy of BFG 9000] Today I was casually reading through a list of referrers when I came across something that I presumed was referrer spam - I had a quick look at the site (so I can get an idea of who to add to my internal ’stab in the face with a rusty spoon’ list) &

Posted at 04:35 PM

Bad Behavior / Bad Behaviour: Bad Behavior 2.0.27

[Bad Behavior / Bad Behaviour] Bad Behavior attempted to pass IPv6 addresses, in an incorrect format, to blacklists which are not themselves ready to handle IPv6 addresses. On Mac OS X, this also caused users on localhost to be blocked, since it uses the IPv6 address for localhost, even without another IPv6 network connection.

Posted at 04:32 PM

June 08, 2009

Spammers, Botnets, Child Pornography, Oh My | ReveNews

[ReveNews] There have been lots and lots of posts around about the FTC shutting down known spam-botnet- child-pornography-hosting provider Triple Fiber Network (3FN.net), (aka Pricewert LLC, APS Telecom, APX Telecom) yesterday affecting 15,000 websites. The FTC said they were actually advertising their services in the dark underbelly of the internet, hosting vast quantities of illegal, malicious, and harmful content, including child pornography, botnet command and control servers, spyware, viruses, trojans, phishing-related sites, illegal online pharmacies, investment and other Web-based scams, as well as pornography featuring violence, bestiality, and incest.

Posted at 04:04 PM

Spammers SUCK by LEAF

[MY BLOGS THEY ROCK x) by LEAF | English, baby! Blogs] TO ALL THE DAMN SPAMMERS I DNT CARE U R SELINA ANGELINA OR WAT SO EVA GO TO HELL NOT INTERESTED IN TALKING TO U AND NOT INTERESTED IN WATCHING YR STUPID PICS I DNT CARE WHERE U R FRM OR WAT U DO JUST STAY AWAY FRM MY EMAIL !!!

Posted at 04:02 PM

June 05, 2009

Akismet - Auntie Spam

[Andy Beard - Internet Business Systems» reviews For Your Internet Business] I remembered a recent post by Andy Beard about Akismet - Auntie Spam. And that post referred to another one, titled “Akismet False Positives &

Posted at 04:33 PM

AntispamBee.com - Keep Your Blog Safe From Spam

[Virtual Coach Income Fitness Community Forum] In essence, through this website you will be capable of protecting your weblog from digital rubbish. This is mainly achieved by analyzing comments using advanced techniques and analyses such as pings.

Posted at 04:32 PM

Targeting Spam > June 29, 2009

Spam Karma, the Most Powerful Plugin to Kill Spam Comment

Flopping Aces » Blog Archive » Ice Cream, while Iran Screams

June 29, 2009

Spam Karma, the Most Powerful Plugin to Kill Spam Comment

Flopping Aces » Blog Archive » Ice Cream, while Iran Screams

June 26, 2009

Reducing Wordpress Comment Spam

Motorola and AT&T together introduce the Motorola Karma - TechShout

June 22, 2009

KattyBlackyard IP: 89.28.14.35 in massive blog spam attack ...

ThreatBlog » Blog Archive » Blog Spam? No Comment”¦.

June 19, 2009

Google Further Clarifies Nofollow and PageRank Sculpting - Search ...

Google Changed How It Handles Nofollow (And How It Might Affect Blogs)

June 15, 2009

Comment on PingBack Spam | Wordpress Spam Karma Plugin Tweaks to ...

Comment on PingBack Spam | Wordpress Spam Karma Plugin Tweaks to ...

June 12, 2009

Referrer Spam - From SEDO !!!!

Bad Behavior / Bad Behaviour: Bad Behavior 2.0.27

June 08, 2009

Spammers, Botnets, Child Pornography, Oh My | ReveNews

Spammers SUCK by LEAF

June 05, 2009

Akismet - Auntie Spam

AntispamBee.com - Keep Your Blog Safe From Spam

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