Ok, see if you can figure out what is going on here

by Michael Motley

Posted: 15 years ago 9 replies

INTERNET MARKETING

My little solar autoblog is getting a lot of comment posts, and im pretty sure that they are from some kind of service or piece of software or something, but I don't see the point of the comments.

The comments seem to be canned preset comments like 'hey great post, please post more' or something similar. The web address that is entered is Google, and the email is from a .cn domain, which is top level domain out of People's Republic of China.

There's nothing special about the post, doesnt have any links that lead anywhere, and Google says I have 0 visitors from the PRC.

anyone got any idea what this is? Someone just misloading their piece of $29.95 TurboBacklinkMaker software?

#figure

Will_Surren 15 years ago

I am getting the same thing on 6 of my blogs. Same message everytime and google is the domain they are using.
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The Pension Guy 15 years ago

Read more: http://www.warriorforum.com/main-int...-spammers.html
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artwebster 15 years ago

Like the gurus say, post to as many blogs/forums/discussion voards as possible and get loads of back links. Then of course they sell the software to find the blogs/forums/discussion boards so that you can automate the process so the owners of blogs/forums and discussion boards get puzzled by a wave of trivial entries.
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John Taylor 15 years ago

Michael,

Install and activate the Akismet plugin
on your blog and it will "moderate" the
majority of the spam comments you get.

John
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- Jeremy Kelsall 15 years ago
  
  Leaving Google as the domain, it looks like someone might be doing one of the following things.
  
  1. Testing a new piece of software
  
  or the most likely answer
  
  2. Too stupid to change the default options in their spam tool
  
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- Michael Motley 15 years ago
  
  Originally Posted by John Taylor
  
  Michael,
  
  Install and activate the Akismet plugin
  on your blog and it will "moderate" the
  majority of the spam comments you get.
  
  John
  
  Well right now, the only thing thats really happening is that i'm getting comments to my blog, so at this point, i dont see a point to stopping them
  
  Another blog i have is also getting hammer but apparently that person knows how to use their software. Though they have stopped as of late
  
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  John Taylor 15 years ago
  
  Originally Posted by Michael Motley
  
  Well right now, the only thing thats really happening is that i'm getting comments to my blog, so at this point, i dont see a point to stopping them
  
  Depending upon your blog settings, those
  comments may be leaching your link juice.
  
  When people see spam comments, they'll
  be much less inclined to comment.
  
  Your blog comments offer you the chance
  of interacting with your readers and open
  a conversation. Spam comments will disrupt
  such a conversation.
  
  By leaving spam comments you are condoning
  and potentially encouraging blog spamming.
  
  I'm really not seeing any advantages.
  
  John
  
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Harry Behrens 15 years ago

I would *not* let these comments get through. They are doing one of the following:

1) Testing for blogs that are not moderated (or are moderated laxly) so as to build a list of "easy commenting blogs" to sell to spammers
2) Testing for blogs that have no-follow turned off for the same reason
3) Getting past the "first comment moderated, rest of comments free" setting that wordpress has by default
4) Developing a new piece of spam software and using your blog as part of their testing ground
5) Trying to inject an SQL attack into the comment and failing, because Wordpress catches it and filters it out before showing it to you
6) Trying to inject an SQL attack into the comment and succeeding, because if they succeeded you'll never know unless they want you to know
7 and 8) 5 and 6 again except with a cross-site scripting js attack against your readers, which if they succeeded you can only know by looking at the PHP code of your page

As you can see some of these are pretty much harmless but others are very serious. The best thing you can do is get a WP API key and activate your Akismet. This way you can get the benefit of their entire spam-recognition network to protect you from all of this.

Also, I don't have too much experience with this, but I can tell you that that feeling of false security and thinking "come on, it's such a tiny little thing, what harm could it possibly do" is exactly what a hacker is counting on to get through.
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Michael Motley 15 years ago

for those interested, this is apparently happening to blogs and forums everywhere. this is what i get when i did a google search on one of the ip's being used

KattyBlackyard IP: 89.28.14.35 in massive blog spam attack : Security Watch - Internet Security News: IT security, Business security, Computer security, Network security, and more
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