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Targeting Spam > November 17, 2008

The Blog from Another Dimension » Gun Rush

[The Blog from Another Dimension] 2005: Referrer Spam Blitz ”” Well, I’ve pretty much given up on using my stats in any meaningful way. The referral spam I’m getting is 2004: Exodus ”” First, the big news most people know about is the game of musical chairs going on .

November 10, 2008

Kurogane’s Anime Blog » Gundam 00 S2 so far”¦

[Kurogane's Anime Blog] I have Spam Karma 2 installed, so if your comment does not appear immediately, please email me.

Posted at 04:02 PM

October 20, 2008

Turning Off Blog Comments

[Keith Hill's Blog] I’ve had enough of the comment spam and I ain’t taking it no more. I’ve been wasting too much time deleting (using Live Spaces rather lame blog management UI) comment spam. I’ve seen enough “Wow gold” and “cheap laptop battery” from a certain region of the world to last me for a life time. To those few, in that region, who abuse this wonderful medium, may your hard drive’s heads gouge deeply into each platter and your CPUs melt into a pile of silicon junk. Somedays don’t you wish there was a *69 equivalent for the internet? :-)

Posted at 04:02 PM

September 29, 2008

KeywordLuv Plugin Is Gone

[WordPress Web 2.0 Spot-Er] If you become reliant on a specific feature on your blog provided by plugin - you better be sure that this plugin is well supported and will be compatible with upgrades. What is even more important - be sure those changes more or less comply with standard features and if you disable plugin - it will not break you blog or screw up the format.

Posted at 04:03 PM

September 22, 2008

Hit by comment spam

[raymondpoort.com] I don’t know what changed, but my blog is being hit with comment spam since yesterday. It’s not the few a day as I got used to, but 10, 20, 50 (!) false, spam related, comments”¦aweful! None of them will reach the blog, ...

Posted at 04:03 PM

August 25, 2008

A Referrer Spam Anecdote

[StraightSecTalk] Spam, be it e-mail, referer or another style, typically operates and gains success due to saturation. Instead of some spammer thinking “i’ll target kevin’s blog with this domain”, they target tens of thousands of domains in hopes the admin checks the site out of curiosity, or in case they make their logs available in some fashion.

Posted at 04:03 PM

August 04, 2008

Remove nofollow in blog links

[The Staff Lounge] in links to members’ blogs, or do I have to delete that code by hand and, if I do, where do I find it?

Posted at 04:02 PM

July 28, 2008

How to fight against comment spam in your Wordpress Blog!

[StudioWordpress] Spam is the word which is a big pain in the you know where. However, we just can’t run away from it as it’s present everywhere, be it e-mail, blog comments, forum or anything which is online and accepts input from the users.

Posted at 04:02 PM

July 25, 2008

Inside The Malicious World of Blog Comment Spam

[Offensive Computing - Community Malicious code research and analysis] Abstract - This paper describes the code, behavior and infrastructure of a blog comment spam attack. The particular blog spam attack explained here uses HTTP/javascript obfuscation and redirection to pass the victims browser through several websites, ultimately infecting the victims host using a handful of exploits.

Posted at 04:33 PM

May 12, 2008

Damn Blog Spam filters are a pain in the ass!

[Untitled] Dave’s Spam Karma 2 is the main one I am railing against because it is used on one of my favourite blogs (Bad Astronomy) and EVERY DAMN COMMENT I MAKE is deemed SPAM. Maybe it’s because I use the Nickname I use on this blog .

Posted at 04:02 PM

March 21, 2008

Dave’s Blog » Spam Karma 2.3

[What am I doing?] Dave’s Blog » Spam Karma 2.3.

Posted at 04:32 PM

March 17, 2008

Using Akismet to fight comment and trackback spam

[Theme Lab] With Akismet enabled on your WordPress blog, each comment will be submitted to the Akismet web service which will run hundreds of tests on said comment to check it for “spammy” characteristics.

Posted at 04:02 PM

February 15, 2008

Hello webmaster: Coping with clever spam

[Walt at Random] For the rest, there’s Spam Karma 2, which continues to do great work. As far as I can tell, no more than about one spamment (spam comment) makes it through to the blog itself every month, maybe not that many–and I rescue legitimate comments from the spam list about as often (maybe once a month–usually for having too many links).

Posted at 04:36 PM

February 10, 2007

A User Agent To Block

[ A Daily Rant] A User Agent To Block Posted by willmacc under Blog Spam , spam , c-ya-later bin , bad-bots , trackback spam No Comments Here’s a user-agent to...

Posted at 04:09 AM

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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Posted at 04:08 AM

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 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

December 29, 2006

Trackbacks Are Dead

[ The Rabid Paladin] This can lead to an unwanted side-effect by leaving your blog much more open to another Internet dirty trick--denial of service attacks. Frankly, you don't even have to deny service to affect a lot of private bloggers--attacks that increase their bandwidth usage would be as unwelcome to many as a full-on denial might be. After all, it doesn't cost you extra hosting fees when your blog goes down.

Posted at 04:08 AM

December 26, 2006

Alec - blog spammers have outgunned him 275 to 1

[Blog.DanYork.com] It's nice to see someone keeping all those stats and then providing them. We've been using Akismet over at Voice of VOIPSA as well and it has worked fantastically, but I've been deleting all the blog spam now and then, so I don't have any great way to keep a record like this.

Posted at 04:10 AM

December 24, 2006

Blog SEO | Evaluation | Taking action

[ Andy Beard] He has introduced tagging on his Copywriters blog, although that integration seems to be in a state of flux as I have noticed a change in how the tags are being presented. He has also introduced tagging and a copywriting tag cloud to his central blog.

Posted at 04:10 AM

Targeting Spam > November 17, 2008

The Blog from Another Dimension » Gun Rush

November 10, 2008

Kurogane’s Anime Blog » Gundam 00 S2 so far”¦

October 20, 2008

Turning Off Blog Comments

September 29, 2008

KeywordLuv Plugin Is Gone

September 22, 2008

Hit by comment spam

August 25, 2008

A Referrer Spam Anecdote

August 04, 2008

Remove nofollow in blog links

July 28, 2008

How to fight against comment spam in your Wordpress Blog!

July 25, 2008

Inside The Malicious World of Blog Comment Spam

May 12, 2008

Damn Blog Spam filters are a pain in the ass!

March 21, 2008

Dave’s Blog » Spam Karma 2.3

March 17, 2008

Using Akismet to fight comment and trackback spam

February 15, 2008

Hello webmaster: Coping with clever spam

February 10, 2007

A User Agent To Block

January 29, 2007

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

Referral spam

January 17, 2007

Comment Spam on the rise

January 07, 2007

YourMinis Attracting Porn?

Testing My New SCode MT Turing Test

December 29, 2006

Trackbacks Are Dead

December 26, 2006

Alec - blog spammers have outgunned him 275 to 1

December 24, 2006

Blog SEO | Evaluation | Taking action

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