I just got hit again with about 200+ comment SPAM entries. I am now open to suggestions on how i am going to solve this problem. I know some people were suggesting this and that, what is now the best solution?
This time is was real sick stuff too, the kind of stuff I have been filtering and fighting for my kids not to see online. I mean I am very strict with them and when they are online 80% of the time one of us is close by. Well if all they have to do is go to Daddy's BLOG, or check email and see that Daddy has received over 200 comment confirmations from these sites and I have lost the battle.
Suggestions anyone?
Posted by Muckhead at October 30, 2004 09:32 AMA couple of suggestions:
- use mt-blacklist and update it's list via the master list every week or so
- use the close-blog comments script (search my blog for info on this, or email me) assuming you're using a database backend (if you're not, switch to one, again, email me :). This killed off 99% of my blog spam
- switch to mt 3.1 which has a free for personal use version and has some of this stuff build in for it (including user authentication, a new and improved mt-blacklist, etc)
Most blog spam is to older entries, so that's the one that helped me the most.
Posted by: Arcterex at November 1, 2004 11:57 AMI found that adding some rules to block the known bad user agents and IPs worked quite well.
Posted by: Wim at November 1, 2004 11:59 PMThis one was surprisingly obvious, but I just did it today...
In your blog config, there's a "sanitize" option... just put the HTML tags you want to allow in there (and don't put in a href.
I also removed the email/web link from the commenter's name as a way of minimizing the amount of blog spam I get.
Posted by: Darren at November 3, 2004 03:22 PM