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Targeting Spam > 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.

August 25, 2008

MSN Live Search Referrer SPAM

[Peppermint Tea] Visiting the Advanced Preferences in Mint (/mint/?preferences&advanced) allows you to stop recording activity from specified IP ranges, I have added the following to the list (that already includes an IP range that Shaun previously identified as a problem with

Posted at 04:02 PM

August 22, 2008

Tips for efficient usage of NOFOLLOW link attribute

[Daily SEO Blog - SEO tips for wordpress and blogger users] Instruct the search engines how they should value a particular link, by either following it or not. Despite the command, search engines behave differently in understanding the Nofollow tag.

Posted at 04:36 PM

A Criticism of NoFollow Links: Why You Should Not Use Them

[Barry Wise] Unfortunately, the use of nofollow tags has really impeded the original concept behind the open and free exchange of ideas on the Internet. Since so much traffic is dependent on Google today (and one can argue that the Internet as a whole is way too overly dependent on Google) the excessive use of nofollow tags hurts everyone’s chances of ranking well in Google. And by everyone, I mean the majority of website owners which own relatively small sites and blogs. As a result, there is less traffic to all our sites, which means less exchange of ideas.

Posted at 04:35 PM

August 18, 2008

Anti-Georgia spammers building new botnet

[dedupe web cs9902- Factiva Alerts] Remember how much everyone loved to hate AOL at the turn of the century? AOL offered bloated software, piles of unwanted installation discs, a walled garden of content, an overloaded newbie network, and a pricey dial-up service.

Posted at 04:03 PM

Trackbacks, and spammers, and DDoS, oh my!

[Less Talk, More Code] Even after adding in some safeguards to the Trackback method, such as parsing the supposed referencing page and checking for HTML and the presence of the supposed link, it was still possible for spammers to get through. ...

Posted at 04:03 PM

August 15, 2008

Spammers Hit a Literary Wall

[Small farm website services for direct marketing farms - Small Farm Central -] It's not really important for you to understand the specifics except that a CAPTCHA makes sure that a human is at the other end on comment submissions, emails from the website, mailing list submissions, and anywhere else that we take input from the user.

Posted at 04:33 PM

I HATE Spammers, but Sometimes They Make Me Laugh

[Jerod Crump's] Seriously, if I were a spammer, I think I'd at least try to make up a headline that not only sounded like a real headline, but perhaps I could also say something that was within the realm of physical possibility!

Posted at 04:31 PM

August 11, 2008

HowTo Eliminate Wordpress Trackback Comment And Pingback Spam

[Rob Malon [dot] Com] Why even let spam bots eat up your processor with extra SQL queries! I’ve come up with a spam defense lineup where 99% of my spam stops bots before they even get logged as spam!

Posted at 04:02 PM

HowTo Eliminate Wordpress Trackback Comment & Pingback Spam

[Digg / Tech Industry News / upcoming] Have you ever gone to your Akismet plug-in in Wordpress and NOT had spam to clear out? Even seeing it there can be depressing and a strain on your servers resources.

Posted at 04:01 PM

August 08, 2008

Comment Authorization - VaxCave WordPress Trackback Spam Killer

[Wordpress Plugin Center] VaxCave WordPress Trackback Spam Killer I ve been getting hammered with trackback spam. I have my blacklist setup to weed out anything that comes from our good friends, the texas hold em / online poker folks. ...

Posted at 04:32 PM

SpamViewer - Spamhuntress Trackback spam solutions

[Wordpress Plugin Center] Welcome to the new version of WP-Plugins.net documentation site. In the process of blog also contains extensive information on how to use and improve the SK2 Spam-Fighting plugin

Posted at 04:31 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

Knol's Nofollowing Of Links

[Google Blogoscoped] In a Knol article, at first glance, you won’t see the nofollow attribute if you look for it in links. There’s also nothing in the robots.txt which would prevent spidering of Knol content, and in fact, filling knowledge gaps in Google results was one of the proclaimed main aims for Google to build Knol.

Posted at 04:01 PM

August 01, 2008

WordPress SpamAssassin Plugin -

[Wordpress Plugin Centre] How To Fix WP-Cache And Spam Karma 2 (SK2) Issues ” Connected Internet said, ”¦ SK2-WP-Cache-Compatibility plugin - When you use Spam Karma 2 with WP-Cache, ”¦ WordPress Plugin: WP-Morph 1.0 WP-Morph 1.0 is yet another anti-spam plugin .

Posted at 04:32 PM

Comment Spam Killer -

[Wordpress Plugin Centre] Akismet False Positives & Spam Karma Configuration | Andy Beard - Niche ”¦ If you are using WP-Cache, it is advisable to also use this fix for Spam Karma with WP-Cache. ”¦ of migrating to wordpress, so I will keep spam karma in mind. ”¦

Posted at 04:31 PM

July 28, 2008

Comment Spam

[A Peculiar Blog] I've been noticing an increase in the amount of comment spam in recent weeks. Usually the Akismet and Bad behavior plugins do most of the work of keeping the crap out of the comments but there's been a higher than normal level of sewage .

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Posted at 04:04 PM

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

Math Comment Spam Protection: reduzindo o spam em seu blog

[Digg / Software / upcoming] ConheÃ§a o plugin Math Comment Spam Protection e reduza o spam em seu blog WordPress, deixando seu Akismet ocioso.

Posted at 04:33 PM

July 21, 2008

Plug-in to block spammer

[Blog Tutorial] Then, login to your wordpress admin account and click plug-in , activate the spam karma. After you have activate the plug-in go to setting and setting your spam karma.

Posted at 04:03 PM

Spam Karma: so long and thanks for all the fish

[Lee.org] Dave, the author of the terrific-fantastic-makes-blog-comments-possible-I’ve-donated-to Spam Karma has decided to call it quits on the project. He’s opened it up as GPL.

Posted at 04:02 PM

Targeting Spam > August 25, 2008

A Referrer Spam Anecdote

August 25, 2008

MSN Live Search Referrer SPAM

August 22, 2008

Tips for efficient usage of NOFOLLOW link attribute

A Criticism of NoFollow Links: Why You Should Not Use Them

August 18, 2008

Anti-Georgia spammers building new botnet

Trackbacks, and spammers, and DDoS, oh my!

August 15, 2008

Spammers Hit a Literary Wall

I HATE Spammers, but Sometimes They Make Me Laugh

August 11, 2008

HowTo Eliminate Wordpress Trackback Comment And Pingback Spam

HowTo Eliminate Wordpress Trackback Comment & Pingback Spam

August 08, 2008

Comment Authorization - VaxCave WordPress Trackback Spam Killer

SpamViewer - Spamhuntress Trackback spam solutions

August 04, 2008

Remove nofollow in blog links

Knol's Nofollowing Of Links

August 01, 2008

WordPress SpamAssassin Plugin -

Comment Spam Killer -

July 28, 2008

Comment Spam

How to fight against comment spam in your Wordpress Blog!

July 25, 2008

Inside The Malicious World of Blog Comment Spam

Math Comment Spam Protection: reduzindo o spam em seu blog

July 21, 2008

Plug-in to block spammer

Spam Karma: so long and thanks for all the fish

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