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- Referrer and Comment Spam: A Primer
... blogs like this one: Comment, trackback and referer spam. I figured I'd take this lazy Saturday afternoon as an opportunity to try ... being pedantic and simply refer (ha!) to it as "referer" spam, simply because it refers to the "Referer" header. We'll use the proper ...
Blog entry - cwage - 04/30/2005 - 12:53 - 6 comments - 0 attachments
- sober.p/q spam backscatter
Filtering the spam being sent from sober.p/q is fairly easy as the bayesian/DCC type checks ... has provided some convenient rules to catch the spam directly in spamassassin. But a particularly annoying problem is ... the backscatter that results from this Sober.P spam. Blocking backscatter consistently is much tougher. In general, filtering ...
Blog entry - cwage - 05/16/2005 - 13:43 - 0 comments - 0 attachments
- Tracking down the source of Referrer Spam
Referrer Spam is the bane of any blogger's statistic tracking. These low-life people ... top referrers to the blog. This, as with other types of spam, causes grief because it exists purely to deceive and ultimately wastes ... web server hosts 108 sites. I bet they are all Referrer Spam sites. If I can get this person stopped, I may make a small difference on ...
Blog entry - nholland - 08/28/2005 - 15:57 - 18 comments - 0 attachments
- Cell phones - Great Spam Target
... work/motivation... With our intimate ties to the Anti-Spam industry through Swirbo, it becomes even more apparent how much spam will end up costing the world in lost productivity & wasted resource. ...
Blog entry - nholland - 05/04/2005 - 21:50 - 0 comments - 0 attachments
- Developing nations losing spam battle, CNET says
... on CNET about third world countries and their growing spam problem. If you think your spam is bad, you should try living in some of those third world countries... ...
Blog entry - nholland - 05/29/2005 - 14:13 - 0 comments - 0 attachments
- The next wave of spam?
... change (and a company that sends out information about Spam nonetheless) is doing this, then what is to stop spammers from doing the ... in this scenario. Does this signify the next wave of spam? Millions of emails being sent that have innocuous text, followed by an ...
Blog entry - nholland - 05/22/2005 - 13:55 - 0 comments - 0 attachments
- CNN comment spam?
... maliciously targeting blogs critical of CNN with comment spam? It sure looks like it. We'll be discussing the growing problem of comment and referrer spam in more detail in coming posts. (Miscellaneous) ...
Blog entry - cwage - 04/26/2005 - 11:30 - 0 comments - 0 attachments
- Anti-Comment-Spam Plugin
... increased level of blacklist-poisoning/Joe-Job comment spam all week (on the order of 20-30 a day), and I got a little fed up. ... with a simple yet effective goal against automated comment-spam: the requiring of a "code word" in the comment form posting. You can ...
Blog entry - cwage - 12/08/2005 - 00:30 - 0 comments - 0 attachments
- Blacklists: What they are and how to avoid them
If you thought that anti-spam protection for your incoming mail would alleviate your e-mail problems ... criteria -- for example, the IP address was caught sending spam, or it's owned by a company known for supporting/sending spam. Or perhaps the IP address hosts a mailserver not following the rules , ...
Blog entry - nholland - 01/18/2007 - 00:42 - 0 comments - 0 attachments
- Eliminating (Most) Trackback Spam
... Well, wordverify has taken care of almost all comment spam, except for human spammers , of course. However, trackback spam, since it is by definition automated when working properly, cannot be ...
Blog entry - cwage - 02/01/2006 - 01:23 - 4 comments - 0 attachments