Sat, 26 Feb 2005

Yet another SPAM Attack ...

Today is was over 2500 comments, pushing a variety of porno sites. They managed to get past my little blocker, and just went for it. The real questions are who and how.

A bit of browsing through the logs provided the answers. The specific "who" was some scumbag on a Verizon DSL connection. But the more interesting who turned out to be the folks at www.php-soft.com : note that it isn't linked, as I sure as Hel ain't gonna give them any publicity whatsoever.

These particularly fetid piles of coding scum have assembled a database of weblogs - complete with ID bypasses for schemes like mine (commonly known as "monkey math"). They're based in Europe, apparently, and hosted there as well (again, apparently, as things get a bit murky in there). And MacRaven has the distinction of being included in their database. Oh, joy!

For the time being I've stopped the attack by simply assigning a new ID number - look for this to start changing with far more frequency than it has in the past. But if this continues - well, I have no desire to get into an arms race, so writebacks may have to go the way of the dodo - which would be a damn shame.

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Notes: If you put a <mailto:> link in the URL field your address will not be mangled: this could be a bad idea as your email address could be easily harvested by bots designed for SPAM. The comments field should now format correctly for line feeds and carriage returns: when you hit the 'Enter' or 'Return' keys in your comment it should break to a new line. The text should wrap cleanly. Please let me know if it doesn't. No HTML tags will pass through - entering links seems to be the main cause of comment SPAM. Also, please be sure that Javascript is enabled in your browser before attempting to post a writeback. Sorry for any inconvenience, but this really helps cut down on the amount of comment SPAM I have to deal with.
 
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