121 SPAM comments in 1 night
Wednesday, October 12th, 2005Is it normal? There were 10 spam comments in night, it’s ok, but now i have 121 spam comments in 8 hours. I hate spammers 
I have good spam blocker, all comments were blocked, but i have to manually click, if this is SPAM. Usually i have 1 comment between moderated comments which is normal comment from blog reader, so it should not be all moderated comments deleted. But does anyone know, if there is really good Wordpress plugin for SPAM comments? Which remember spammer in some way, and do task (delete or mark comment as spam comment) automatically?
Thanks for your advices.
This is some text prior to the author information. You can change this text from the admin section of WP-Gravatar I'm living in Bratislava, Slovakia. I'm Senior Flex, AIR Developer for my own company Flexets. Read more from this authortagged under:
ABOUT THIS AUTHOR
I'm living in Bratislava, Slovakia. I'm Senior Flex, AIR Developer for my own company Flexets.
12 Comments
Administrator
• Visit Site
October 12th, 2005
My problems seems to be nothing compares to the Erik Bianchi’s problem
20000 spam comment in a single day
LordAlex Leon
• Visit Site
October 12th, 2005
I was plagued by spammers in my blog with an average of 200 a day 15 at a time. I turn to Blogger and turn on the image verification word. That worked great for me. I dunno if there is a similar alternative for WP.
Cheers.
+LA
Administrator
• Visit Site
October 12th, 2005
image verification is good idea, i will try to find such plugin. Thanks Alex.
JesterXL
• Visit Site
October 12th, 2005
Advice from a veteran in trenches of fighting blog spammers.
Your symptoms sound like a spambot. It’s a series of scripts that gather blog addresses, pool them together in a list, and spam each in turn using exposed methods known for each type of blog (WordPress, MoveableType, etc.).
The way to beat a spambot is Captcha, like LordAlex suggested. Most blogspammers scripts do not utilize the image API’s to disect the keyword.
For the manual entries, they are easily removed as you’ve found. The early ones you received were probably recon, testing your blog.
An additional step you can take is to find a blacklisting plugin for WordPress. Although Captcha stops spambots dead in their tracks, it does not stop the bandwidth. Blacklists help; you can blacklist sites just as fast as they buy new domains, which helps against the manual spammers, and most importantly, usually has ways of cleaning up existing infestions.
Good luck!
Administrator
• Visit Site
October 12th, 2005
thanks Jester I will try to find such plugins
You’re right, that’s spambots, comments like: i like your site, awesome stuff and others say for all
Administrator
• Visit Site
October 12th, 2005
i have installed Spam Karma 2 plugin, there is lot of settings, it looks interesting, we will see, if this is good plugin (it seems yes), there is captcha (If (and only if) the comment’s karma is within a certain error margin, provide the commenter with a chance to clear himself by solving a Captcha.) and blacklist as well….
Leo Bergman
• Visit Site
October 12th, 2005
Having a flash based blog I don’t have any experience in trying to fight spam.
Maybe a good idea is to use a Flash based form for submitting comments?
I seen that Jester has that for example.
I would guess it’s quite easy to replace the HTML form with a Flash version, and I would think that would render bots incapable of submitting.
JesterXL
• Visit Site
October 12th, 2005
The only reason my comments are in Flash is because I couldn’t get a MoveableType Captcha plugin working. Spambots bypass your form, and go straight for the .cgi/.php. They post to that, and don’t even look at your website.
All my Flash did was put a hidden variable in there. You could do the same in an HTML form, but most people don’t know how to decompile a SWF, so I’ve been lucky for the past 14 months. If my luck doesn’t hold, I’ll just try to installa a Captcha plugin again.
Sadly, having a Flash form, while stopping 100% of the botspam, comprimises usability of my site; the form doesn’t work 100% well.
Administrator
• Visit Site
October 12th, 2005
I want to give change Spam Karma 2 plugin, it’s huge and seems sophisticated, if not, flash seems to be solution as Jester told, but I will wait now for Spam Karma 2 results
Leo Bergman
• Visit Site
October 13th, 2005
Duh…yes of course.
I was thinking the bots needed to find out what input the php file would expect, but of course they know that for big systems like MT and would not need to get the info from the HTML every time.
So infact my Flash blog is not much safer
Well….I guess I just have to hope it don’t become a hugely popular system and I’ll be ok
Administrator
• Visit Site
October 13th, 2005
it’s seems that I have installed right plugin
all spam was correctly recognized as well as Leo comment was approved correcly, and to blacklist was added spammers 
Bruce Riddell
• Visit Site
October 15th, 2005
Do you think that blog comment spam is a problem?
Then you should read today’s blog article.
Is there such a thing as spamming a blog?
Live Preview
Leave a comment