Comments on: Stopping the guestbook spammer – part 4! http://michaelpollitt.com/wordpress/?p=93 technology writing with style Fri, 12 Mar 2010 08:29:18 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Whitney http://michaelpollitt.com/wordpress/?p=93&cpage=1#comment-26608 Whitney Sun, 05 Nov 2006 20:28:18 +0000 http://michaelpollitt.com/wordpress/?p=93#comment-26608 I just did a search for the IP address of some people who have been spamming my blog and found this. They are still at it. I just did a search for the IP address of some people who have been spamming my blog and found this. They are still at it.

]]> By: Krilich Berglomi http://michaelpollitt.com/wordpress/?p=93&cpage=1#comment-2972 Krilich Berglomi Tue, 23 May 2006 16:07:24 +0000 http://michaelpollitt.com/wordpress/?p=93#comment-2972 Thanks for your e-mail regarding the spam on my blog. I have cleaned out my comments and installed further spam protection wich should be enough to stop the spamming. I wish you good luck with the spam hunting! Thanks for your e-mail regarding the spam on my blog. I have cleaned out my comments and installed further spam protection wich should be enough to stop the spamming. I wish you good luck with the spam hunting!

]]> By: Keith http://michaelpollitt.com/wordpress/?p=93&cpage=1#comment-2291 Keith Wed, 10 May 2006 00:35:03 +0000 http://michaelpollitt.com/wordpress/?p=93#comment-2291 EV1 has always beena problem. I've owned and administered 3 domains for over 5 years and from the beginning, EV1 has been one of the main ones. No amount of emails, or whatever results in any actions - even after sending countless portions of the web log. There are also several domains out there I wouldn't complain to the offending domain due to the spammers owning the domain. "ThePlanet" is the first one that comes to mind. Also, forget any domain that has "reverse" in the domain name. *.rogers.com is a Canadian cable internet provider - forget these also, they will not do anything with their groups of spammers; resulting in the whole domain being banned. I have found it easier just to ban the complete domain - from IP to IP and use the .htaccess file to refuse access to specific words in the referer line and user-agents line. I look at my logs several times a day and can usually pick out the IP's that are phishing for something. I've started a Guestbook spammer database on my blog. I update it every few days to include the most recent groups of spamming IP addresses. It can be seen here: http://www.boomersailors.net/wp/index.php?spage=spamreport EV1 has always beena problem. I’ve owned and administered 3 domains for over 5 years and from the beginning, EV1 has been one of the main ones. No amount of emails, or whatever results in any actions – even after sending countless portions of the web log.
There are also several domains out there I wouldn’t complain to the offending domain due to the spammers owning the domain. “ThePlanet” is the first one that comes to mind. Also, forget any domain that has “reverse” in the domain name. *.rogers.com is a Canadian cable internet provider – forget these also, they will not do anything with their groups of spammers; resulting in the whole domain being banned.
I have found it easier just to ban the complete domain – from IP to IP and use the .htaccess file to refuse access to specific words in the referer line and user-agents line. I look at my logs several times a day and can usually pick out the IP’s that are phishing for something.

I’ve started a Guestbook spammer database on my blog. I update it every few days to include the most recent groups of spamming IP addresses. It can be seen here:
http://www.boomersailors.net/wp/index.php?spage=spamreport

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