Targeting Spam > Trackback SPAM

Chris Crowe's Bloghttp://blog.crowe.co.nz/archive/2008/06/02/Trackback-SPAM.aspx [Chris Crowe's Blog] I have been hit with a lot of Trackback SPAM in the last few weeks and months. I have deleted all Trackback's and disabled the use of them.

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YugaTech | Philippines, Technology News & Reviewshttp://www.yugatech.com/blog/wordpress/wp-trackback-spam-attack/ [YugaTech | Philippines, Technology News & Reviews] WP Trackback Spam Attack: Took me about 6 hours monitoring one of our servers where a blog was attacked. The attack would seem like a Digg-effect or a slashdot effect.

Chrystalline[Chrystalline] Fighting Spam: Sometimes what you consider spam is a recurring email list to which you subscribed, whether you realized it at the time or not, and accusing people of spamming you when you asked them to send you email is rather rude. In addition, it makes the tech support people skeptical of all spam claims, because they have to wade through so many complaints that turn out to be legitimate lists, which makes it that much harder to convince them that a spammer is violating the rules.

lara loganhttp://ecomunica.org/blogs/laraloganac/2008/05/01/posttraumatic-stress-disorder-associated-with-more-longer-hospitalizations/ [lara logan] Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder Associated With More, Longer ...: The spam is deleted after a period of time automatically and it has worked like a charm so far for me. The only downside to this method is that the spammers still get to your server and waste resources, whereas the method above completely blocks them.

Pinoy Consolehttp://www.pinoyconsole.com/wordpress-tweaks/spring-cleaning-of-my-weblog/ [Pinoy Console] Spring Cleaning of my Weblog: Third tool and my first line of defense, install all the best, all kind of anti-spam plugin available for WordPress. And here is the list of plugin I’am using right now to fight back against all those unscrupulous spammer.

firewall[firewall] Cell Phones Face Extinction As Smartphones Take Over (TechWeb): One Airline Discount Military Ticket Jen 4 the reasons is trackback spam, and it affects a lot of WordPress sites. This post isn’t going to show you how to eliminate trackback spam, but it will show you how to live with it, ...

Tales from the SharpSidehttp://scottcreynolds.com/archive/2008/03/07/subtext-quickie---dumping-mass-trackback-spam.aspx [Tales from the SharpSide] SubText Quickie - Dumping Mass Trackback Spam: I had to turn off trackbacks for a while because I was getting new spam faster than I could delete them. So I turned it off and left it alone until tonight, when I decided I would stop neglecting my poor blog for the billionth time. ...

SEOCO Bloghttp://www.seoco.co.uk/blog/2008/01/30/how-to-make-money-from-trackback-spam/ [SEOCO Blog] How to Make Money from Trackback Spam: If you have trackbacks enabled on your blog you have most probably had to deal with trackback spam at some point. Most of the time I just delete the spam trackbacks and move on, but this morning I received one from what appeared to be a ...

Everything typepadhttp://everything.typepad.com/blog/2008/06/more-tools-for.html [Everything typepad] More Tools for your Spam Fighting Arsenal: We're always looking for new ways to help users protect their weblogs from spam. If you have any ideas for how we can improve or enhance these features, leave a comment and let us know!

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