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 | ContinuedAll Posts Tagged With: "spam"
Bloglines Impersonated By Spammers
If you received an email from Bloglines over the weekend, you can discount it as spam. According to Bloglines, a little less than 1,000 email messages were sent to individuals over the weekend. The email contained recommendations to various posts on a Chinese blog which were sent via the “send a post to a friend” [...]
November 20th, 2007 | Jeffro | 0 comments | Continued
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
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
Instructions Written By A Spammer
The guys over at TheGlobalGeekPodcast have posted an image of a document which supposedly instructs users on how to install a hard drive. Whoever wrote this document has a poor understanding of the English language and while reading it, I couldn’t help but be reminded of how much this manual reminding me of a piece [...]
August 16th, 2007 | Jeffro | 3 comments | Continued
10Links Consumes SPAM Sandwich
10Links.net the site I reviewed a few days ago has temporarily gone under because of the vast amount of spam that was getting into their site queue. This is easily understandable considering their submission form, at the very least, didn’t provide a CAPTCHA image to ensure that human beings were the ones submitting websites.
10Links.net has [...]
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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