Comments on: One trojan coming up http://spamhuntress.com/2005/09/03/one-trojan-coming-up/ Just another WordPress weblog Sun, 07 Sep 2008 15:57:41 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.7 by: MeanRoy http://spamhuntress.com/2005/09/03/one-trojan-coming-up/#comment-1339 Tue, 27 Sep 2005 03:26:56 +0000 http://spamhuntress.com/2005/09/03/one-trojan-coming-up/#comment-1339 I am being forced to make the script I use to fight my particular WikiSpammers more and more sophisticated. There is no built-in index command for PhpWiki1.2 and the spammers have been creating new pages and then spamming the "RecentChanges" page, forcing me to perform a search to see it. I don't know what good they think this does since there are no links to the page. The most obnoxious spammer is one associated with o n - l i n e p h a r m a c y. I would SURE like to be able to retaliate somehow! This guy has a bot that works heaviest on the week-ends. Sometimes spamming repeatedly 10-20 pages over a period of a couple of hours. Roy. I am being forced to make the script I use to fight my particular WikiSpammers more and more sophisticated. There is no built-in index command for PhpWiki1.2 and the spammers have been creating new pages and then spamming the “RecentChanges” page, forcing me to perform a search to see it. I don’t know what good they think this does since there are no links to the page.
The most obnoxious spammer is one associated with o n - l i n e p h a r m a c y. I would SURE like to be able to retaliate somehow! This guy has a bot that works heaviest on the week-ends. Sometimes spamming repeatedly 10-20 pages over a period of a couple of hours.
Roy.

]]> by: Halz http://spamhuntress.com/2005/09/03/one-trojan-coming-up/#comment-1189 Mon, 05 Sep 2005 11:12:38 +0000 http://spamhuntress.com/2005/09/03/one-trojan-coming-up/#comment-1189 Some wiki spammers have automated the process of creating orphan pages. The pages are given garbed textual names or just numeric names. As you say. It's a good way to sneak under the radar, particularly on small wikis where the administrator is only really using it as a single-page wiki. It can't be a very good page rank tactic though, because an orphan page by definition does not have any incoming links (except temporarily on 'recent changes') Another similar trick I've noticed on mediawiki installations: The default installation makes links to various pages such as 'General Disclaimer'. These pages are linked to throughout, but often administrators never bother to create a legitimate version of these default pages, and never notice if a spammer does the job for them. See http://wiki.chongqed.org//MediaWikiDefaultPagesSpam Some wiki spammers have automated the process of creating orphan pages. The pages are given garbed textual names or just numeric names.

As you say. It’s a good way to sneak under the radar, particularly on small wikis where the administrator is only really using it as a single-page wiki.

It can’t be a very good page rank tactic though, because an orphan page by definition does not have any incoming links (except temporarily on ‘recent changes’)

Another similar trick I’ve noticed on mediawiki installations: The default installation makes links to various pages such as ‘General Disclaimer’. These pages are linked to throughout, but often administrators never bother to create a legitimate version of these default pages, and never notice if a spammer does the job for them. See http://wiki.chongqed.org//MediaWikiDefaultPagesSpam

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