Sodding spammers, again

Posted by Gary
March 20, 2008

I’ve disabled user registration (temporarily) because the bloody spammers are back, and I don’t have time to do major security stuff today. Sorry for any inconvenience and/or crap in your RSS feeds…

[Thanks for the heads-up, Kyle]

Stuff and nonsense

Agree? Disagree? Then by all means leave a comment, although please note that spammers will be shot. If you subscribe to the feed you can get future articles delivered to your feed reader.

Comments
Comment by Stephen on April 15, 2008 @ 7:08 pm

How do you know if you’ve got that hidden spam that you can’t see but that causes Google to treat your site like a leper?

Comment by Mupwangle on April 15, 2008 @ 7:35 pm

one day when you were away there was 1000.

Comment by Gary on April 15, 2008 @ 8:38 pm

It’s still ongoing. I’ve deleted a few hundred today.

Stephen, if you view the page source it’ll be in there. Assuming they’ve only hit the front page and not long-forgotten archives.

Comment by Stephen on April 15, 2008 @ 10:17 pm

Hmmm, don’t see anything on mine. Are you running 2.5?

Comment by Gary on April 16, 2008 @ 8:29 am

I’m on 2.5. What I’m getting is mainly trackback spam, with the odd comment spam. Touch wood, they haven’t got into the actual posts again (apparently it was a registration bug/exploit in 2.something).

Leave a comment


*
To prove you're a person (not a spam script), type the security word shown in the picture. Click on the picture to hear an audio file of the word.
Click to hear an audio file of the anti-spam word