Peter's Useful Crap - Topic: "Randomized" spam making it through

Peter on "Randomized" spam making it through

Wed, 31 Oct 2007 12:39:24 +0000

I do get random attacks on this blog too. Some days I'll get spurts of about 5 spam messages, then for a few days nothing. What makes me feel a bit better is that when I temporarily turn the anti-spam plugin off, I get bombarded with like 10 spam messages per hour.

The best thing, though, is to have Akismet running in the background to hopefully catch things that get through. Remember, a CAPTCHA plugin can do wonders but isn't bulletproof. You can change it up and try the math anti-spam version every once in a while.

steveegg on "Randomized" spam making it through

Wed, 31 Oct 2007 10:05:11 +0000

Make that WP 2.3.1. I also experienced it with WP 2.3 and CAS 2.9.4 (the first audio-enabled version I have).

steveegg on "Randomized" spam making it through

Wed, 31 Oct 2007 09:57:36 +0000

I'm using 2.9.5 and WP 2.3, and the last couple of days, a series of completely random comments, ones that appear to be complete jibberish in the e-mail, URI and comment fields, have been making it through the word verification (fortunately, they've been bumping up into the moderation queue rather than going live).

I hadn't updated to the audio-enabled versions until recently, and that's when I started to notice this becoming semi-successful. In an attempt to see if the audio has been getting spoofed, I deactivated it this morning. It hasn't been that long, so I don't know yet whether that's the problem, or whether I'm getting targeted by simpler image-reading bots.