Do You Get This On Your Blog?

by John Derrick

Posted: 15 years ago 10 replies

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I am getting comments like this on all of my blogs, several a day.

hi
79ayrajmh7sada1y
good luck

Now the funny thing, is the url is also gibbersh... for example in the one I just marked as spam, the url was: http://jkqcreg.com/zasfi.html
which as far as I can tell never leads anywhere.

So what the heck is this all about?

Is it a spam bot that someone did not set up correctly?

OR is it an attempt at some sort of hack?

PS- IP is Asia Pacific, but it could be a prox I suppose.

#blog

Levada 15 years ago

Hi, I think it is the spam bots just testing to see if they can post to your blog....hope you are moderating!

I gave up even allowing comments because of all the spam. Got tired of deleting all the "need to be moderated" comments.

sincerely,

Levada Pendry
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warriorx2x Banned 15 years ago

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- Sylvia Meier 15 years ago
  
  Originally Posted by warriorx2x
  
  these are mostly spam comment
  
  Like all your one liner posts here on the forum?
  
  And yes, I get them all the time too, never clickthrough to the url though so not sure if they are legit or not.
  
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- Sylvia Meier 15 years ago
  
  Originally Posted by warriorx2x
  
  these are mostly spam comment
  
  Can others report this spammer he is now in the process of creating a WSO
  
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  ahuddy 15 years ago
  
  These are bots. You need to make comments only available to registered users, this will stop the issue.
  
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John Derrick 15 years ago

That's a good idea ahuddy, I may have to go to registered users only, but then I suspect I will start seeing a flood of spam of registered users pouring in.

I have not been checking to see if the IP's are all the same. I will have to do that, because if they are I can always block the ip.

I don't know about you, but I hate having to register for every site that I feel like leaving a comment on. Oh sure, I understand why they do it, but I sure do get tired of it. I must have 700+ passwords. (thank you roboform)
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TheRichJerksNet 15 years ago

Hi John,
First of all it's just basic spam.. Install wp-spamfree plugin, works great.. Also consider bad-behavior plugin..

2nd get your wordpress secured, need help with security PM me..

James
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- Karen Blundell 15 years ago
  
  3 must have plugins to help you combat comment spam in WordPress:
  Akismet, Comment-Timeout and Simple Trackback Validation
  
  also make sure you have your WordPress upgraded to the most current version
  
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  forous 15 years ago
  
  You can this WP-spamfree plugin. It has been stopping most of the spam comments to my blog.
  
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  bgmacaw 15 years ago
  
  Use Akismet and moderate all comments or at least all first time comments and that will take care of your problem. You could also try other anti-spam plugins too if you don't like how that method works.
  
  Don't cut your own throat socially and SEO speaking by turning off comments after a certain time period and/or requiring registration. That's like using a bazooka to kill a fly.
  
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googleninja 15 years ago

Its surprising for my blog that Akismet doesn't catch that one liner spam comment so I have to remind akismet its a spam.. Anyway, spam are annoying as always
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