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Jammed: Full into Capacity[Jammed: Full into Capacity] How to fight trackback spam in your WordPress blog?: This feature has been a spam vector with some individuals abusing it. Websites giving trackback spam are usually Adsense-generating websites, which are mainly using bots to track posts containing certain post tags. A trackback spam can ...

WebGeekhttp://www.hybrid6.com/webgeek/2008/05/wp-spamfree-update-version-18-with-new-drop-in-spam-free-contact-form.php [WebGeek] WP-SpamFree Update - Version 1.8 With New Drop-In Spam-Free ...: This one is designed for people who want a quick and easy-to-install contact form that doesn’t get spammed, and doesn’t bother users with CAPTCHA’s and questions. If you decide not to use the contact form feature, it won’t hinder your regular use of WP-SpamFree in any way, and you’re still free to use other contact form plugins.

Pinoy Consolehttp://www.pinoyconsole.com/wordpress-tweaks/spring-cleaning-of-my-weblog/ [Pinoy Console] Spring Cleaning of my Weblog: The questions really are simple, and avoid using annoying Captchas. -Simple Trackback Validation Plugin: This will hopefully cut down on trackback spam by not allowing a trackback to be placed unless it has a link back to my site. ...

The King[The King] ExpressionEngine 1.6 nulled: No other publishing platform gives you as many tools to prevent comment and trackback spam as ExpressionEngine. Blacklist. The ExpressionEngine Blacklist/Whitelist Module is an integral part of EE’s spam prevention capability. ...

Snap 3.0[Snap 3.0] Wordpress Plugins Get Indexed: This is intended to prove that the visitor is a human being and not a spam robot. (Tobbi); Use validation to prevent trackback spam. Simple Trackback Validation performs simple but very effective tests on all incoming trackbacks in ...

http://www.epiblogger.net/prevent-automated-comment-spam/ [Epiblogger] Keep the Comment Bots at Bay: Automated comment spam bots know this so all they do is add your blog to their list of sites to target and their software goes to work spamming your blog by posting directly to the wp-comments-post.php file. You can try to simply rename the default WordPress file for handling comments but that will only work for a little while until the bot does read the actual html form and adds the new url and file name to their database.

D' Technology Webloghttp://www.ditii.com/2008/01/21/wp-spamfree-wordpress-plugin-kills-automated-comment-form-spam/ [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.

you've been HAACKEDhttp://haacked.com/archive/2008/01/04/reopen-the-comment-door-for-your-readers-with-subkismet.aspx [you've been HAACKED] Reopen The Comment Door For Your Readers With Subkismet: Akismet service client: Akismet is an online web service that helps to block spam. This service client implementation for .

OneOfSix[OneOfSix] Ten Tips for Securing Your Blog: proxies that spamdexers use to propagate their wares. Either block these at the firewall (ie, stop all inbound traffic from 192.168.199.*) or use an httpModule/httpHandler combination (ie, UrlRewriter or similar) to block troublesome IP ranges and send out a “forbidden”

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