Over 300 message in my Gmail spam folder. A new personal record. I can’t stand it right now, but I’m going to try and hold out for 500.
Tag Archives: spam
Spam.la
June 5, 2007 – 3:29 pm
Fight Spam, use an anonymous email address at spam.la, from DreamHost. Useful if an email address is required and you never want to receive email from a site.
Spammers Attack
April 30, 2007 – 11:20 pm
Over the past week I’ve had a problem with spammers hitting my comment form hardcore both here and at 2 Hole Cards so hard it was crashing the web host server. They had to disable the sites and it looks like the spammers have moved along. Just to help out for future attacks, I’ve upgraded [...]
Predicting the Future
April 5, 2006 – 1:43 pm
I guess Chase bank can predict the future because I just received an email from them with the following…
Your online credit card account has high-risk activity status. We are contacting you to remind that on April 08 2006 our Account Review Team identified some unusual activity in your account.
Hell, I don’t even have a Chase [...]
Gmail Spam
September 7, 2005 – 8:08 am
Today I received a spam email at my work address from a Gmail address for the first time. I sure hope Gmail doesn’t turn into a Hotmail or Yahoo.
No Spam
April 1, 2005 – 9:48 am
On February 14th, I upgraded MtDewVirus to WordPress 1.5 and on February 27th, I deactivated all spam prevention plugins. I was kind of curious how many comments, trackbacks, and pingbacks have been flagged as spam by my WP install, so I just took a look. It’s April 1st, but this is no joke…I have 10,000 [...]
It's Working
February 27, 2005 – 10:36 pm
Comment left by a spammer today…
I don’t think your site is working.
WordPress Fights Spam
February 27, 2005 – 12:18 pm
As I mentioned on Friday, I had deactivated my spam prevention plugins. It’s been about 60 hours, but all of spam fighting techniques that are built into WordPress are working extremely well.
One thing I noticed however was pingbacks automatically being approved. I had trackbacks moderated by a plugin I wrote, but otherwise they would have [...]
Fight the Spam
February 25, 2005 – 8:33 am
Last night I deactivated the WP Hashcash plugin here and at 2 Hole Cards to see how it goes. As of right now, the only spam plugin I have activated is my moderate trackback plugin. We’ll see how the spam prevention measures that are built into WordPress do.
Trackback Spammers Are Back
February 1, 2005 – 8:54 am
The trackback spammers are back in full force. When I checked my email this morning I had over 180 and it’s continuing through the morning at a rate of several per minute. Talk about a pain in the ass! Don’t they realize that their info isn’t every getting onto the site. It’s getting flagged and [...]
WordPress Plugins: Trackback And Pingback Moderation
January 6, 2005 – 1:11 am
These two plugins basically do the same thing, but I wanted to keep them seperate. When you turn one on, it will automatically place either all NEW trackbacks or all NEW pingbacks (depending on the plugin) into the comment moderation queue. It’s meant as a simple way to keep the spammers from getting these onto [...]
Trackback Spam
January 5, 2005 – 1:48 pm
Now that I’ve gotten a handle on the comment spam taking over my blogs, I’m getting hit through other means. Trackbacks! I found a few hooks in the WP code that I can plug into, so tonight I plan to whip up a few plugins so that pingbacks and trackbacks can automatically be put into [...]
Stop The Comment Spam
January 2, 2005 – 2:16 pm
Hopefully comment spam is a thing of the past. I want to apologize to anyone who has attempted to comment recently and has been redirected to the FBI’s site. I think my comment spam checking system was going a little haywire from all of the spammers and it was flagging some of you that were [...]
WordPress Comment SPAM Plugins
October 29, 2004 – 8:46 am
I’m now using two plugins to help me combat comment SPAM. The first is Kitten’s Spam Words, which gives you an easy way to delete comments and mark them as spam at the same time. This helps to create a list of comment spam words in WordPress so that further comments will automatically be held [...]
SPAM Comments
October 28, 2004 – 7:51 pm
After some recent flooding of SPAM comments on all of my blogs I’ve started to take some preventive measures. I have much mor work to do, I’ve started flagging a few things. In the future, if you notice that when you comment it doesn’t show up right away, you’ve probably used a word or something [...]
Ultimate SPAM Filter
October 20, 2004 – 11:57 am
Lately the SPAM coming through to my work email address has dropped off considerably. Well…today while troubleshooting a problem with my email I found out that I was blocking all email from the svsu.edu domain. Nearly 400 messages had been blocked so far…whoops!
Comment SPAM Protection
February 15, 2004 – 11:20 am
I just installed a hack by Mark (Laughing Lizard) on my site to filter comments. Believe it or not, there are people out there that will visit blogs and post comments advertising viagra or other such things. This hack is designed to help prevent this from happening. If an address or certain words are recognized, [...]
