I’m getting pretty annoyed the last couple of weeks, as I’m finding that I am getting a lot of comment spam on my blog entries. Every morning I wake up and see like 10 of my entries have been spammed with useless comments of a word or two with weird URLs.
It started with traceback alerts and then comments. I shutdown comments and forced users to login to comment, but I was still getting them. I took the site down for a few days and when I brought it back up it didn’t take long to get hit again.
I read online about something called Traceback Spamming and how they attack WordPress blogs. It made me look through some of the blogs that keep getting hit and I realized that I didn’t turn comments and tracebacks off properly, which was odd cause I thought I did so for every entry.
Anyhow, I now set things up right I hope and I have a spam filter setup, so we’ll see what happens in the next few days.
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