More Spam Fighting
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 about this before, but wasn't too sure how I'd go about implementing it. Then I spotted this article. Bingo, just what I was looking for, but alas someone commented on this blog with their method. Seems even less complicated, and easier to maintain and even the author of the first article I found seems to have implemented this method.
I've now implemented this and will watch and see. I haven't disabled the logging of the accesses just yet, so will still be able to see when things go wrong, which I hope they wont.