A deluge of repulsive comment spam — I’ve spent the last half hour hour and a half just trying to catch up with it by hand — all from different IP addresses, so far as I can tell, coming in wave after wave. As soon as I see Micah online, I’ll insist that he work out with CornerHost the installation of the latest MT spam-blocking filter. Till then, please excuse any horrible comments that I haven’t caught yet.
Later: Sorry, I just don't have time to fight this battle by hand, three spams at a time. So far as I can tell, I'm already three hundred spam comments behind. I’ll see what I can do about purging them en masse when the deluge subsides. In case you’re wondering, this makes me very angry.
Posted by AKMA at January 12, 2004 08:16 PM | TrackBackThey've learned, this spam attack could outfox mt-blacklist. Hard to say, but they have gotten smarter. Since the weblog is down for the county anyway, I've also turned off all comments.
The comments can be cleared quickly directly in MySQL. Send me email and me know if you want some SQL script help to clean up after these attacks, just in cast the mt filtering doesn't work.
Posted by: Shelley at January 12, 2004 09:27 PMThey've learned, this spam attack could outfox mt-blacklist. Hard to say, but they have gotten smarter. Since my weblog is down for the count anyway, I've also turned off all comments, after cleanup.
The comments can be cleared quickly directly in MySQL. Send me email and me know if you want some SQL script help to clean up after these attacks, just in cast the mt filtering doesn't work.
Posted by: Shelley at January 12, 2004 09:27 PM
Shelley, Do I know you?
Have you ever been to St Louis?
If yes, hit me up on ICQ: 136547585.
If not - sorry you just remind me of someone.
regards,
Chris