Comments on: Blogging: Comment Spam

By: Richy C. (of Richy's Random Ramblings)

Richy C. (of Richy's Random Ramblings) — Mon, 13 Oct 2003 01:28:00 +0000

It looks like Scott, Tim and Dave also got hit by the same spammers – but different IP ranges

By: jinjur.com -- Dear Diary

jinjur.com -- Dear Diary — Sun, 12 Oct 2003 23:36:22 +0000

double grr

The porn spam is apparently hitting almost everyone who runs

By: Reflective Reality

Reflective Reality — Sun, 12 Oct 2003 22:52:35 +0000

Automated Comment SPAM Solution

I now have a working captcha thanks to James Seng. I really don’t care how much of a pain it is on the accessibility front, the spammers have driven me to finding a working solution. The don’t allow comments from google searches hack also makes first t…

By: Richy C. (of Richy's Random Ramblings)

Richy C. (of Richy's Random Ramblings) — Sun, 12 Oct 2003 22:14:14 +0000

A bit more information:

Spammer 80.50.117.113 found my site on 11/Oct/2003 12:27:19GMT via the url http://www.buka.pl/linki2/index.php?show=urls using the browser “Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows 98; Win 9x 4.90)” (probably faked) and landed on entry 118, but they did download a few graphics so it didn’t “look” like a bot – although it only took them 39 seconds from first visit to hitting the “Submit” button.

Spammer 64.109.143.166 came directly to entry 91 at 12/Oct/2003 12:14:32 GMT without any referring information using the “Mozilla/4.0(compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1)” browser and took just 7 seconds to hit the “Submit” button!

The other comment spammer, however, came straight in via the IP address 209.210.176.33 and started hitting the submit button (with no browser information or referer information ) on 10/Oct/2003 09:08:42 GMT, then again from 209.210.176.21 on 11/Oct/2003 13:04:27 and 13:04:30 and then from 209.210.176.20 at 13:03:59 and 13:05:01 and again and again…