Posted on by Steve | Category: Computing, Sad Spammers
I use fail2ban to protect my server. I additionally report the IP addresses to AbuseIPDB But Forum spam is a big problem as anyone with a blog will know I have Akismet configured, which pretty much stops it all from ever appearing, but that doesn’t stop them from repeatedly posting spam. I looked at various […]
Posted on by Steve | Category: Computing
As a follow on to my post about the slow cycle bot net it now looks like its slowing down (i.e. Fail2ban has blocked most of the compromised machines).
Posted on by Steve | Category: Computing, Rants, Sad Spammers
Yet more stupid spam arrived in my inbox today. Lets just take two examples from the small tsunami that arrived. What spammers forget is that sending TWO emails from different people to the SAME address with similar messages in it really does give the game away. Then why on earth should someone send Security alert […]
Posted on by Steve | Category: Rants, Sad Spammers
Come on Spammers – do you really think shit like this gets through? Surely a “Gifted Psychic” would have known this would get flagged up as spam.
Posted on by Steve | Category: Computing, Sad Spammers, Witterings
Going to Suggest an Edit on Semalt’s Facebook page comes up with the following: Diahreaa is a pretty fitting suggestion!
Posted on by Steve | Category: Computing, Rants, Sad Spammers
On January 24th Andrew Timchenko from Semalt sent me a Private message on Facebook: Dear Stephen From now on your websites: tty.org.uk Canalplan.org.UK Canalplan.EU Canalplan.co.UK Pubnight.org.uk won’t be visited by our robots. I would like to bring apology on the behalf of our company if our service caused you some troubles. I’d told him that […]
Posted on by Steve | Category: Computing, Sad Spammers, Uncategorized, Witterings
I posted on Semalt’s facebook and they deleted my posts. I made another post suggesting that deleting my posts simply confirmed that they were a rogue element. Then they tried to friend me… I have a rule on Facebook : If I don’t know you and I’ve not met you or had a drink or […]
Posted on by Steve | Category: Computing, Rants, Sad Spammers
So Google is full of sites posting about the above company … they would seem to be trying to do some sort of SE ranking or are they just complete arses? This is an example from one of my site logs … there is NO reason for this behaviour but their repeated use of IP […]
Posted on by Steve | Category: Computing, Rants
No doubt others have experienced this on their blogs: You have Trackbacks enabled and the trackbacks fill up with crap posted there by scum advertising drugs, pornography and so on. S I’ve been having a lot of problems with crap advertising several sites on http://mywebpage.netscape.com. So far various netscape sites have accounted for over 190 […]
Posted on by Steve | Category: Computing
Well the RBLs have trapped a lot of the spammers. Also I’ve put a bit of code in that at the moment is logging the IP of any person accessing the trackback script. The next step is to take that code and wrap it into the trackback script so that posts containing “banned” words get […]