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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
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.
> 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. :)
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.
Mrs Digi
Digi
If you have spam on your blog this does not mean you site is insecure.
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