Textile formatted comment spam

hakjoon · 2005-11-30 17:19:57

In the last 3 days I’m suddenly getting hit by a lot of comment spam (first time so far). And to top it all the spam is textiled.

Anyone else seeing this? Are the spam free TXP days of yore gone?

I’m still on 4.0.1 if that could have any co-relation..

thebombsite · 2005-11-30 18:13:49

Well unless someone has developed a smart bot that does textile I would imagine that some arsehole is actually sitting there and typing it in. I get them from time to time. I suppose they could copy/paste it. I don’t think there’s a lot you can do other than ban the IPs that are registered for the comments.

hakjoon · 2005-11-30 18:36:08

Yeah that’s pretty much what I’ve been doing. I was curious if others were seeing this to see if it pointed to a bot.

Remillard · 2005-11-30 19:10:18

I’ve gotten some on a particular post. I haven’t noticed that it was Textile formatted. I’ve just been deleting it so far, but might have to check logs and look at banning in .htaccess or something.

zem · 2005-11-30 20:50:49

Anyone seeing regular comment spam, can you please forward some details to me? A grep of your access logs showing the activity of that user (based on the IP address) would be particularly helpful, as it can help distinguish between a human and a bot.

If nothing else, perhaps a quick post here summarizing the activity: how many comments, over what time frame, identical or different contents, random or selected text/name/email, links in the body or web field, etc.

zem · 2005-11-30 20:59:03

I’ve just been deleting it so far, but might have to check logs and look at banning in .htaccess or something.

Textpattern’s “Ban” feature doesn’t help?

ramanan · 2005-11-30 21:34:10

I got one spam message recently, but seeing as how it was just one i’m not sure it’s a bot. I haven’t had a chance to check my logs just yet.

hakjoon · 2005-12-01 00:59:07

Let me also quantify that by a lot I only meant around 10 (9 Monday and one today) It was just a very large increase from nothing. I deleted all of them already but I’ll make sure to gather information if it happens again.

Remillard · 2005-12-01 01:29:44

Just for purposes of correlating information, the yahoo who keeps trying to target one of my articles for pr0n links regarding large women comes from: cdn-jrc-c6100-01.tm.net.my

At least on the last attempt.

Remillard · 2005-12-01 01:31:22

> zem wrote:
Textpattern’s “Ban” feature doesn’t help?

Beats me. I’ve never had to use it.

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thebombsite · 2005-12-01 02:55:47

I rarely get spam so my “ban” list amounts to a massive 4 or 5 IPs.

Remillard · 2005-12-05 20:04:41

128.134.56.71 was the last attempt. Name is Alejandro. Since the last attempt was from a Mexico TLD it seems to fit. And, I guess I need to upgrade at some point since I don’t actually have a ban feature anywhere that I’ve found. Ahh well. It’s hard to keep up with the march of technology.

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