Linkspam up considerably
Link spam on my guestbook and blog is up significantly.
The guestbook spam was manageable, but now it’s to the point of at least 10 per day. The guestbook spammers used to be easy to block, but they now use proxies.
Comment spamming on spamhuntress.com is also up significantly.
And as you guys know, I’ve been complaining bitterly about one particularly bothersome referrer spammer, who steals bandwidth. One blog has more than one gigabyte more traffic than normal this month, and chances are, this one spammer is behind it.
December 28th, 2005 at 5:05 pm
Comment spam has actually been slowing on my Blogspot blog over the last month. Since yours has been going up I guess Blogspot may have improved their spam prevention methods.
January 6th, 2006 at 5:52 pm
Hola,
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I guess when using free services you’re SOL in regard to preventing bandwidth consumption. Much better would be .htaccess, a bunch of SetEnvIf/Rewrite rules and very slim custom error pages. Just omitting any html code and only leaving “forbidden” and “not found” (both 10 bytes) will considerably reduce both load and bandwidth consumption. Purists can of course serve 0 byte files (aka blank page) as well, as it’s only the header sent that matters to applications and/or bosts
There’s a surprisingly high amount of people who don’t use .htaccess or their httpd.conf to regulate the traffic, probably because they’ve got no clue how to get started. So they let the spam thrive instead and blame it on the software/scripts they’re using, as this seems to be more convenient than to learn something new
Olliver
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February 2nd, 2006 at 11:00 pm
Spamlinking had gotten REALLY bad on my site (even when I removed all direct links to the guestbook from my site)…… eventually I resorted to password protecting the directory the guestbook software’s located in.
Most of it was linking to Pharmacy sites registered through ESTDomains (who weren’t much help)…. and as for the plonker in the Abuse department for the company in charge of the IP Address 72.36.244.143 where one of them came from, and I reported within 10mins of it being posted (was already logged-in, deleting all the **** posted previously before the database blew-up again)…….. *bangs head on desk in frustration*
February 10th, 2006 at 12:45 am
My blog had the same problem but fortunately I coded the ultimate against those robots. I was getting spammed every 15 minutes on my blog. Blogspot should use my secret too. That is, you plant a cookie when the user visits your page. If someone posts to the guestbook, it should check the return of that cookie and its value. If it comes back blank then that means it’s a robot post and just ignore them and don’t post them.