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Instant Site Spammed There are 17 replies
Original Message posted by Digitrader on 26/03/2008 at 9:51:43AM
Hi Freeola

Mrs Digi set up a new instant site a month ago and then went off on her travels to NZ - before she left me and one of my sons had left a comment on her blog page, on her return from NZ there are 39 comments - the two we left and 37 spam! prozac viagra the lot!

How did that happen? I thought these instant sites were more secure?

Digi
 
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Eccles
"Aargh! Broken..."
on 30/03/2008 at 7:18:23PM
Total Posts: 400
Ah thank you for letting me know! We're still looking at adding the question thing as well at some point.
 
Digitrader
"rodeado de tontos"
on 30/03/2008 at 10:32:42AM
Total Posts: 785
Morning Eccles well the good news is that since the captcha was put in place - no spam :) Mrs digi did wonder what you were on about when you said about the captcha as she thought it was not there initially, but she says he (Eccles) would know as he is the expert - she (Mrs Digi) is much happier today.

Digi
 
Eccles
"Aargh! Broken..."
on 28/03/2008 at 5:16:57PM
Total Posts: 400
Right. I've modified the captcha code slightly and added it to the blog comments page (no one spotted it was missing!). Hopefully this will help. If you could keep and eye on it that would help!
 
Digitrader
"rodeado de tontos"
on 28/03/2008 at 5:03:42PM
Total Posts: 785
Cheers Eccles thats greatly appreciated

Digi
 
Eccles
"Aargh! Broken..."
on 28/03/2008 at 4:07:15PM
Total Posts: 400
Perhaps the spammers are targeting Instant Sites because all the site are fairly new and so appear quite high up in search engine listings, therefore being a good target for getting filthy words displayed! I will try a tweak the code a little and see if that helps.
 
Digitrader
"rodeado de tontos"
on 28/03/2008 at 3:59:04PM
Total Posts: 785
Yes they have and with out captcha

digi
 
Hmmm...
"Are you sure?"
on 28/03/2008 at 3:32:28PM
Total Posts: 786
Have your other sites got a public 'guest book' type option though?





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Digitrader
"rodeado de tontos"
on 28/03/2008 at 3:24:29PM
Total Posts: 785
Hi Hmmm yeah but the sad thing is that we are not getting spam like this on our other sites ie not instant sites its only the instant site that appears to have the problem, and it has the captcha thing in place and moderation in place - you would have thought if any sites were vunerable it would have been the older sites and not the instant sites - instant sites using newer technology we thought they would be more secure - wrong word - more bullet proof?

Digi
 
Hmmm...
"Are you sure?"
on 28/03/2008 at 1:56:15PM
Total Posts: 786
Digitrader wrote:
> Yeah she has had to delete another batch of viagra and other
> various medical things today - :_(




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Digitrader
"rodeado de tontos"
on 28/03/2008 at 1:29:54PM
Total Posts: 785
Yeah she has had to delete another batch of viagra and other various medical things today - :_(
 
Eccles
"Aargh! Broken..."
on 26/03/2008 at 6:43:34PM
Total Posts: 400
We're looking at adding the human question thing and other measures if required. Captcha worked for a long time but was the cracked so I expect newer methods will be as well given time. We're always one step behind the spammers unfortunately.
 
Chocoholic
on 26/03/2008 at 5:15:12PM
Total Posts: 20
Thank you :)

And will set the blog notification thingy too.

Mrs D

Eccles wrote:
> Fixed the problem that was causing this. The site cache was not
> being rebuilt when a comment was deleted.
>
> You may like to turn on comment moderation on your site via the
> Page Settings link on the blog edit page. You will then be
> alerted to any new comments that people (or spammers) submit
> every time you login to edit your site. This may put the spammers
> off as their posts will never be live.
 
Garin
"Devil in disguise"
on 26/03/2008 at 4:39:45PM
Total Posts: 1701
Eccles wrote:
> They are but unfortunately, as you may have read, it seems that
> spammers have managed to crack many of the Captcha (the image of
> random letters we ask you to fill in) systems. We are looking
> into alternatives at the moment.

The most success we've had has been with questions, what colour is the sky, what colour is grass, whats one plus one and so on.  That took us from heavily spammed to no spam at all.  And its been that way for over 6 months now so not exactly showing any signs of adapting either.
Colour coding also works (only type the red letters etc.) but obvious not so good for colour blind people.

Personally, I prefer a good old fashioned keyword filter though. :)
 
Eccles
"Aargh! Broken..."
on 26/03/2008 at 3:59:25PM
Total Posts: 400
Fixed the problem that was causing this. The site cache was not being rebuilt when a comment was deleted.

You may like to turn on comment moderation on your site via the Page Settings link on the blog edit page. You will then be alerted to any new comments that people (or spammers) submit every time you login to edit your site. This may put the spammers off as their posts will never be live.
 
Chocoholic
on 26/03/2008 at 3:12:02PM
Total Posts: 20
I have removed the offending comments - one at a time as I can't see an option to select then delete - but they are still there! And I am deleting 'live' so how come????

Mrs Digi
 
Digitrader
"rodeado de tontos"
on 26/03/2008 at 2:03:38PM
Total Posts: 785
perhaps insecure is not the correct word then? but either way she was most annoyed - as you say you need to fill in letters before you can blog so this should have removed these offers of Viagra etc bloody spammers! why do they do it? why do they not put there efforts into writing sofware that benefits the world instead of causing mayhem.

Digi
 
Eccles
"Aargh! Broken..."
on 26/03/2008 at 1:58:00PM
Total Posts: 400
They are but unfortunately, as you may have read, it seems that spammers have managed to crack many of the Captcha (the image of random letters we ask you to fill in) systems. We are looking into alternatives at the moment.
If you have spam on your blog this does not mean you site is insecure.
 
Digitrader
"rodeado de tontos"
on 26/03/2008 at 9:51:43AM
Total Posts: 785
Hi Freeola

Mrs Digi set up a new instant site a month ago and then went off on her travels to NZ - before she left me and one of my sons had left a comment on her blog page, on her return from NZ there are 39 comments - the two we left and 37 spam! prozac viagra the lot!

How did that happen? I thought these instant sites were more secure?

Digi
 
 
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