All Posts Tagged With: "akismet"

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Is This How Comment Spam Works

As I was checking out my Akismet spam filter one day, I noticed a comment that was labeled differently than most of the other ones I’ve seen. This comment linked to a site called BotMaster. According to the site, BotMaster sells a service called Xrumer that comes bundled with Hrefer which is an automated link-building [...]

August 23rd, 2008 | Jeffro | 5 comments | Continued
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Fighting Spam In WordPress

Mashable.com has published an article that highlights 7 Tools For Fighting Spam In WordPress. The list of plugins includes:

Akismet
Bad Behavior
Defensio.com
Simple CAPTCHA
Simple Trackback Validation
Spam Karma 2
WP Spam Hitman

From my own experience, Akismet has been the only spam fighting tool I’ve needed to use on this blog. Akismet seems to pick up just about everything that is [...]

February 10th, 2008 | Jeffro | 6 comments | Continued
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More Plugin Updates

There have recently been a number of updated plugins released for Wordpress. The plugins in question are as follows:
Akismet - Akistmet version 2.1.1 has been released. Some of the new features in this version include the ability to sort by comment type. This means you can search by ALL comments, Comments, or Pingbacks. There [...]

December 17th, 2007 | Jeffro | 0 comments | Continued
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Letting Spam Loose For A Day

Mark your calenders because on December 15, 2007, WordPress user’s across the blogosphere will be turning off Akismet. Ok, not really. But Jesper Rønn-Jensen has decided to do it. He calls it, Spam Filter Free day where he will disable the Akismet anti spam tool on his blog for 24 hours to figure out, just [...]

November 29th, 2007 | Jeffro | 5 comments | Continued
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A New Spin On Blog Spam

According to Lorelle, blog spammers have developed a new technique of scraping a blogs content and then publishing it on their own blog. The new technique centers around the use of WordPress plugins that excel in scraping the content and then using software or other plugins to replace certain words with synonyms. The result? The [...]

November 15th, 2007 | Jeffro | 11 comments | Continued
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I Need Your Help With Spam

Comment spam has never really been a problem on this site thanks to Askismet. However, I’ve recently become a victim of Trackback/Pingback spam. It looks like bots are creating automated blogs which either scrape the entire block of content or in my case, an excerpt. Sometimes, the bot states that I’m the author of the [...]

October 9th, 2007 | Jeffro | 10 comments | Continued
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Look At All That Spam

The Akismet blog has posted some statistics involving the amount of spam being blocked. The figures are as follows:

From 0 to 1,000,000: 70 days
From 1,000,000 to 100,000,000: 190 days
100,000,000 to 1,000,000,000: 257 days
1 billion to 2 billion: 108 days

Notice the last stat compared with the previous stat. Indeed, spam is growing. Akismet has put together [...]

July 11th, 2007 | Jeffro | 0 comments | Continued
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