Attack of the Bl0g Spammers
April 4th, 2006 | by ka edong |
Wordpress is able to screen out spam comments with multiple links to commercial sites selling pharmaceuticals or other products. Cool.
But wordpress doesn’t screen seemingly legitimate entries that just say:
Hi
Buy X*n*x ?
So the past two days, I’ve been manually deleting these comments. Almost 30 comments each day for the past two days.
I don’t want to make this my morning ritual.
What should I use to combat against these spammers?
ka edong
spam for breakfast
7 Responses to “Attack of the Bl0g Spammers”
By Ealden on Apr 4, 2006 | Reply
I found the Akismet plugin to work great here. It came with my Wordpress 2 install (is that what you’re using?) but I had to signup to Wordpress.com to get the “key” to make the plugin work.
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By Kates on Apr 4, 2006 | Reply
Right. Use Akismet and moderate those who have more than one link. Just a backup plan. Akismet sometimes conks.
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By ka edong on Apr 4, 2006 | Reply
thanks ealden, kates. I haven’t migrated to wp 2.0. Wala pang plano. But with all this spam, that gives me a better reason to migrate and use akismet.
I’m wondering if there’s akismet for wp1.5.2 …..
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By ka edong on Apr 5, 2006 | Reply
Yey! Ha! Akismet to the rescue!
Akismet works for wp 1.5.2 and above. Just installed it now. It has screened one spam so far.
weeeeee ….
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By mell ditangco on Apr 10, 2006 | Reply
i have given up!
even with askimet, i find that i screens out legit track backs, etc.
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By ka_edong on Apr 10, 2006 | Reply
so how do you handle it, mell? manually?
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By mell ditangco on Apr 10, 2006 | Reply
sad to say ka edong… manually! grrrr
spammers are getting more and more clever.
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