Yakezie.com - Topic: Comment Spammer

Tony Chou @ Investorz' Blog on Comment Spammer

Thu, 11 Aug 2011 14:22:08 +0000

Growmap Anti Spambot Plugin is the best for antispam.

Matt Wegner on Comment Spammer

Thu, 11 Aug 2011 12:06:19 +0000

Just installed GASP to give it a try. Looking forward to it. I was using Disqus but had some trouble with it so switched back to the standard option. Since then Spam went way up.

Invest It Wisely on Comment Spammer

Wed, 03 Aug 2011 09:12:40 +0000

Conditional Captcha + Typepad Antispam works pretty well; my main problem is the trackback spam that has to be manually filtered. It comes and goes in waves though.

Jeff @ Sustainable Life Blog on Comment Spammer

Tue, 02 Aug 2011 14:32:14 +0000

I've been looking into puttin GASP on for a while, and am considering a site redesign, so I think I'll integrate it into that. I was having good luck with askimet for a while, but then I added conditional captcha and it lowered the spam I got by quite a bit. Still get some through though.

Buck Inspire on Comment Spammer

Tue, 02 Aug 2011 11:01:05 +0000

I am using GASP and blocked a few ip's of a pesky spammer. Bad SPAM comments cutdown to zero. Amazing. I'm thinking in my case, it was the ip block that helped as I was getting buried by the same website. Good luck!

Hunter @financiallyc on Comment Spammer

Tue, 02 Aug 2011 10:34:35 +0000

@SPF I paid the price for dragging my feet on this issue. This week I have been hit with almost 1,000 spam comments. I have just installed GASP. Let's hope it does the trick, and cuts down my workload.

Khaleef @ KNS Financial on Comment Spammer

Thu, 28 Jul 2011 06:01:10 +0000

everydaytips said:

unfortunately for me, I am under attack from many different ip addresses, and there are a lot of inappropriate language in these trackbacks too. They are also listing the website as google.com. I am perplexed as to why this is happening. I must have really impressed someone with my new page rank of 1...

I am getting a lot of trackbacks from google.com as well. Before that, it was the sites with six or seven numbers in the domain name. I wonder what's next!

Dana on Comment Spammer

Thu, 28 Jul 2011 03:06:10 +0000

I've found that the spammers tend to work in waves - I'll get a bunch of stuff from all different ip's and then after I ban them all, I won't have any problems for months. It really is annoying though - my time can be spent in better ways than fighting off these spammer jerks.

everydaytips on Comment Spammer

Wed, 27 Jul 2011 17:25:58 +0000

unfortunately for me, I am under attack from many different ip addresses, and there are a lot of inappropriate language in these trackbacks too. They are also listing the website as google.com. I am perplexed as to why this is happening. I must have really impressed someone with my new page rank of 1...

Hunter @financiallyc on Comment Spammer

Tue, 26 Jul 2011 18:22:38 +0000

Thanks SPF, I'll be installing GASP in the near future.

Sustainable PF on Comment Spammer

Tue, 26 Jul 2011 12:28:29 +0000

everydaytips said:

The trackback spammer is attacking me too! I am getting about 100 a day.

Here is a dumb question- does spam like this get included in traffic stats somehow?

I was getting upward of 100 too from some URL that had 6 numbers in it with a ton of different domains. My posts, my included articles - then about 12-16 fake trackbacks as this persons site would ping me from all of them.

Blocked the IP and it has been silent :)

Sandy @ yesiamcheap on Comment Spammer

Tue, 26 Jul 2011 11:07:51 +0000

everydaytips said:

The trackback spammer is attacking me too! I am getting about 100 a day.

Here is a dumb question- does spam like this get included in traffic stats somehow?

I don't think that trackbacks get counted.

everydaytips on Comment Spammer

Tue, 26 Jul 2011 07:52:37 +0000

The trackback spammer is attacking me too! I am getting about 100 a day.

Here is a dumb question- does spam like this get included in traffic stats somehow?

Squirrelers on Comment Spammer

Mon, 25 Jul 2011 19:37:08 +0000

Good information here everyone, thanks. I've been getting something from one particular site every day up to 2 times per day - it goes to my spam folder, thankfully, but still irritating. Time to block them.

Money Reasons on Comment Spammer

Mon, 25 Jul 2011 18:05:08 +0000

Sustainable PF said:

GASP is by far the best product IMO.

When Pat Flynn adopts it, that says something.

Captcha will ban LEGIT people leaving comments and you'll never see them.

@Hunter - "confirm you are human" is GASP btw.

We get perhaps 3-5 spam a week.

Last
week we were getting this trackback spam from this site that had 4
numbers in the URLs (same IP for each). BRUTAL. Every roundup we got
mentioned in was linked to by this jerk on 8-10 sites.

I found a way to BAN his IP but it takes some work you'll need to be comfortable with.

I
use cpanel which has an IP deny manager function in it (which worked -
woot!) but otherwise you need to go to your .htaccess file and add the
following:

order allow,deny
deny from xxx.xxx.xx.x (*** USE THE IP THAT IS SPAMMING YOU ***)
allow from all

then re-save the file.

If you have trouble seeing
the .htaccess file you need to select "show hidden files" when prompted
in cpanel. Now, you may have already SAVED your options in CPANEL, so
go to the very bottom of your CPANEL view and click: "reset all
interface settings", then go and open your admin panel again, you will
be prompted to show what kind of files - click show hidden!

This guy/gal was spamming us SO bad (we don't use ASKIMET at all anymore - just Bad Behaviour and GASP and we get little/no spam and never lose legit comments).

Not sure if this is the issue you have Buck, but if not this research I did will hopefully help others in the future!

I just ban the ip address via my host provider through IP deny icon. Of course the IP address could change, but so far they haven't.

Thanks for the info about .htaccess file! I had no ideas you could deny ip address traffic though that config file! I'm going to have to break down and learn Apache.