Comments on: More new spam http://www.thepickards.co.uk/index.php/200908/more-new-spam/ ranting and rambling to anyone willing to listen Sat, 15 Aug 2009 08:07:50 +0100 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Jared Smith http://www.thepickards.co.uk/index.php/200908/more-new-spam/comment-page-1/#comment-55942 Jared Smith Mon, 10 Aug 2009 17:07:31 +0000 http://www.thepickards.co.uk/?p=3425#comment-55942 I've also seen an explosion of this type of spam lately. I've even detected multiple IPs and accounts working together - one drops keywords and one drops URLs. It's getting out of hand, but I've implemented a few things into most of our forms that are stopping almost all of the bots. But the bigger problem is human spammers - and I suspect some of your spam comments may be from humans also. These have become VERY difficult to stop on web-based forums - particularly if they actually read a thread and make a post that actually contributes to the discussion, with maybe a few keywords or links dropped in there. On the WebAIM web-based forums, I've been getting several posts per day like this. One guy even actively participated for several weeks before going back to edit the posts with spam words and adding a spam link to his signature. These types of things are very hard and time-consuming to detect, fight, and prevent. I’ve also seen an explosion of this type of spam lately. I’ve even detected multiple IPs and accounts working together – one drops keywords and one drops URLs. It’s getting out of hand, but I’ve implemented a few things into most of our forms that are stopping almost all of the bots.

But the bigger problem is human spammers – and I suspect some of your spam comments may be from humans also. These have become VERY difficult to stop on web-based forums – particularly if they actually read a thread and make a post that actually contributes to the discussion, with maybe a few keywords or links dropped in there.

On the WebAIM web-based forums, I’ve been getting several posts per day like this. One guy even actively participated for several weeks before going back to edit the posts with spam words and adding a spam link to his signature. These types of things are very hard and time-consuming to detect, fight, and prevent.

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