Just a quick note to say I've just implemented Defensio for comment spam checking. If you post a comment and it's picked up as spam, don't worry about it for the moment. I'm checking Defensio's accuracy and will soon correct any mistakes it makes.
One of the things that amazed us about TV in the US was the state of advertising on TV. We all know there's a lot of TV in the US and it's continually punctuated by adverts, but Claire and I were surprised about the types of adverts and their frequency.
For a start, they actually have adverts for the spam ...
You know things are bad when phishers are no longer putting the effort into their phishing emails.
I got this lazy attempt this morning:
This "phisher" has made very little attempt at trying to trick me into thinking this is a legitimate email from Nationwide. He's not hidden or changed the "Sender" field in his email, the "my account activity" ...
Bacn - this is a new tech buzz word I'm sure will slowly be making it's way into everyday conversation, just like spam did many many years ago.
Bacn, pronounced "bacon", is all the low priority email alerts you receive that aren’t spam, but aren’t exactly personal either. It's the type of email you've actually requested, but still makes you ...
I've just checked the database for this site and found a whopping 717 spam comments in the DB that had been moderated. It seems WP doesn't delete them when you moderate, it just marks them as spam and doesn't publish them. Well, thanks to one simple plugin, they're all gone now with the reassuring message - "All spam Nuked! Rowr!". Lovely.
Well, it seems I was wrong about disabling WP-Hashcash - it seems this isn't what has caused my rapid increase of spam. So I've installed the Bad Behaviour plugin to see if that makes any difference. I'll watch the logs for a few days.
Word of warning... if you're using the WP-Hashcash plugin - don't disable it and leave it disabled for too long. Comment spam suddenly goes through the roof. I disabled it with the intention of tidying up my plugins... bad idea. It's back on an updated to v2.3 too.
Update: I've disabled this again as it's made no difference.
WOOHOO!!! I'M RICH. VERY RICH. RICH BEYOND MY WILDEST DREAMS!!!!
£1 955 815.85 worth of rich.
I think the first thing I'm going to do is by a Ferrari and then maybe a huge big house in Beaconsfield or Wokingham with a 3 bedroom granny flat for mum and Sami to live in. Then I'll take Claire on a fabulous ...
Like most people, I'm not in the least bit a fan of spam email and usually just skim through messages to determine if they're spam and delete accordingly. This morning I got the following spam message that made me laugh:
Subject: the autumn darkness
Date: Thu, 14 Apr 2005 20:24:55 -0500
From: Frieda Shirley
Reply-To: Frieda Shirley
Organization: comprehensible.bigot
To: ...
Well, thus far getting rid of the plugins and relying purely on the built in functionality of Wordpress and the OCM plugin, no rubbish has got through, however I have got a couple of comments to moderate.
The next step in the spam fight is just simply refusing access from the spam site using a .htaccess file. Ok, I've thought ...
