Targeting Spam > Spam Attack and Problems with Ecto

JEANSNOW.NEThttp://jeansnow.net/2008/02/10/spam-attack-and-problems-with-ecto/ [JEANSNOW.NET] At the same time, I was starting to get a very large amount of moderation notices ”” I’ve been using Spam Karma for years now, with pretty much no worries. Looking on my server, I noticed that all my WP files had been updated on the .

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Reaper-X Technology Guidehttp://www.reaper-x.com/2008/02/03/defensio-spam-filtering-solution/ [Reaper-X Technology Guide] Defensio Spam Filtering Solution: The answer is easy, Defensio has better management interface so you can easily distinguish spam comments and innocent comments that is caught by your spam filtering solution, so you can restore those comment easily if there are innocent comments get caught by Defensio. And like most (if not everyone) knows that there are no spam filtering solution that gives you 100% accurate result (heck even GMail spam filtering mark message sent from WP mailing list as spam) so in the end it’s up to the users itself to mark the message manually, and in this case Defensio gives you a good user interface so you can manage your spam list

D' Technology Weblog[D' Technology Weblog] WP-SpamFree WordPress Plugin “kills automated comment form spam”: I’m quite tired of spamming, so I started searching for plugins that’re effective, kill the bots before spamming, yet low on resources and doesn’t use SQL tables, and I found some intresting plugins. After testing with the selected ones, I found WP-SpamFree the best so far.

Andy Beard - Niche Marketinghttp://andybeard.eu/2007/05/akismet-spam-karma.html [Andy Beard - Niche Marketing] Akismet False Positives & Spam Karma Configuration: Well, I started with Spam Karma and was happy with until one bad day came - my hosting provider closed my account because it was using too much of CPU resources, mostly because of DB queries generated by spambots and Spam Karma fighting them. Changing the hosting company isn't an easy task, especially when you want to get you site running again - I had to get rid of Spam Karma and switch to Akismet.

Stuff by Sarahhttp://www.stuffbysarah.net/blog/2007/07/21/tutorial-comments/ [Stuff by Sarah] Tutorial: Comments: There are other spam plugins such as Spam Karma that can also help. I won’t go into any other spam plugins as I don’t use any others besides Akismet, however there are plenty of plugins to try and find one suitable for your site.

Peter Westwood[Peter Westwood] A new kind of pingback spam: What can we do to fight against this type of pingback spam? I think a new spam rule for validating pingbacks is to ensure that the extracted pingback content contains more that just a link to your post and actually includes some texts as well.

Latent Semantic Indexing[Latent Semantic Indexing] Akismet - The Danger of Collective Intelligence: Recently I have had comments that didn’t include a link enter the moderation queue on new posts. Maybe I am going to have to start commenting without entering an optional URL (I know that affects Spam Karma) .

deuts.net[deuts.net] A Math Challenge Plugin: Akismet and Spam Karma 2 are two of the most common spam protection plugins for wordpress blogs. What these plugins do, however, is simply catch spam comments and put them in queue for the administrator’s moderation.

wordpress plugin[wordpress plugin] AJAX Comments: * best when moderation is off (seems more real-time) and AuthImage is installed (self-moderation is the best moderation)

fullduplex.orghttp://www.fullduplex.org/archive/2005/05/20/essential-wordpress-plugins/ [fullduplex.org] Essential WordPress Plugins: So after weeding out all the useless plugins I had, here’sa list of my Essential WordPress Plugins! Let’s begin.

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