Okay. So first? There was comment spam. Bastard spammers that would leave random comments on my site with links to their pages so if anyone clicked them they’d get payoff. And boy. THAT PISSED ME OFF. So, I did a few things. I upgraded to MT 3.2, I started banning their IPs from my whole site (if anyone wants that list, I’ll give it to you), I started closing comments on old entries, and I disallowed HTML in my comments.
Then? They started hitting me with trackback spam. BASTARDS. So, I had to close trackbacks on my old entries and all that jazz.
Well, then someone discovered that the “Reading” and “On my Mind” sections of my sidebar are actual blogs and when I write a new entry to them it updates on my sidebar. Pretty groovy, right? Until they started leaving comment spam and trackback spam on those entries, which aren’t even REAL. So, I had to close comments and trackbacks on those fake blogs.
Now? The bastards? Have found a way to hack into my archives and leave links on those pages so they end up on my sidebar. They hit Rockstar Mommy a few weeks ago and now they’re doing it to me. The thing that sucks is when Movable Type creates archive entries, it leaves the directories set at a 777 permissions which, is evidently, not a good thing. RSM went and changed all of hers to 755 as the support told her to do, and now I’m having to do the same thing. But you know? It pisses me off that I have to.
Here I am, putting my personal life on the web, ups and downs, pros and cons, black and white, whatever, and some bastard trying to find ways to get hits to his site, is invading what is essentially my FREAKIN DIARY. And it pisses me off.
My point? If you ever see a random link anywhere on any page, one that looks foreign - don’t click it - and immediately email me about it if you can. Thanks.
Now, excuse me while I go change permissions on 9 million files on my server. I’ll see you sometime next year.
I am with you, Zoot! I have had similar problems and I just hate those SOB’s!! I say death to spammers!
I know!!! It’s outrageous! I banned IPs and try to delete the spammers right away but I still get SLAMMED every day with them. The most frustrating part about it is that there is nothing you can really do about it. But I can’t believe these people actually link to their own websites on our sidebars. I need to become president so that I can make it a priority to go after these bastards. War Schmar. There’s spammers to be dealt with.
I hate spammers too. I am sick of porn spam and casino spam. I have a list of about 300 ip addresses I have banned from my site.
Thanks for reminding me to go back and close down mine, although I don’t have near the problems you do…You guys go though, I’ll help cook up their vital organs…….
Doesn’t MT have a plugin in like WP has Spam Karma? (Spam Karma has caught and nuked every single spam comment since I installed it is why I’m asking.)
I’m with you, blog spammers should be drug out in the street and shot. I didn’t know MT had those issues, with older entries. Like the previous poster, I have Spam Karma and thankfully no spam at all since. There *should* be something like that for MT, I’d think.
Oh my Lord, are you freakin’ kidding me? I knew about comment & trackback spam, but this stuff about hacking into your site to leave links on your sidebar is entirely new.
I swear, those kinds of people have to be complete and utter scum.
Well, maybe there are advantages to not being a popular site, and to publishing at blogspot. No spam. :o)
I handle a guestbook that gets the most DISGUSTING spam in the history of ever. Finally, I just put up a filter that wouldn’t work here, but I understand and sympathize big time. Hugs.
That really sucks! Gah. Spammers DIE!
Wow. I’d say some geeks need to get a life outside of messin’ with our personal thoughts. Bastards.
I was having terrible spammer problems a few months ago and I changed the name of the mt-comments.cgi file to mt-comments-[insert somthing new here].cgi, and update mt.ini to change the name of the comments file. It helped a TON with the comment spam, but it doesn’t do much with the trackback spam, but I rarely get more than 3 or 4 of those a day, so I haven’t bothered to figure that out yet.
To change permissions on all the files (in all subdirectories) at once
chmod -r +755 *
But you have to have administrator privileges.
Hope this helps.
To change permissions on all the files (in all subdirectories) at once
chmod -r +755 *
But you have to have administrator privileges.
Hope this helps.
Please send me the list of IP addresses to ban. I’ve gotten nearly 400 spam comments in the past month.
I put a CAPTCHA on my comments, and it cut the spam down to zero. I know it’s a pain in the ass for readers, but it works.