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Spambots: the next generation — 11 Comments

  1. It’d called ‘word verification’ and it’s on blogspot – check out your account for new tools (?)

    Gary

  2. There is a way to stop it.

    Some blogger accounts are useing the same code system that Yahoo does to stop bots.

    I’ll see if I can find out more.

    Gary

  3. My blogger account has never been hit with comment-spam.

    Maybe I’m just not high-profile.

    Maybe that has something to do with the fact that I disallowed non-blogger-account comments.

    On the one hand, it throttles incoming comments by limiting it to the (supposedly) humans-only club of blogger members. On the other hand, I don’t get any comments from the many-faceted personality known as “anonymous”.

  4. I got hit by them as well today, 11 Spam Comments on my blog.

    There is an option however under comments that requires word verification. You should try that and it will fix your problem.

  5. Have you tried researching who these dolts are?

    You can start with a WHOIS search on the linked URL and follow up with spam tools at places like UXN Spam Combat and Sam Spade. These may give you someone to complain to, should you want to spend the time.

  6. You’ll notice the trackback and comment spam goes up in relation to how “controversial” your posts are.

    spam is not just a poor attempt at advertising, it is for the most part, grafitti of the worst kind.

    There is some spam that is gnerated with the idea that it makes their google count go up, but the majority of it is simply a case of sick little minds attempting to make your site ( and thus your voice) unreadable. Its just another attempt to silence you.

    moveable type has a number of tools that make spam administration a breeze. Its one of many reasons I moved to that platform.

    varifrank

  7. I’ve already picked up on the spambot style. They remind me of the various “generators” like the Chompsky generator, the jive generator, etc.

    Sorry I don’t have links right now, but I’m sure you’ve seen one or more of them on the web.

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