Freakin Spam

Posted by Pixelhead

I have been getting crap load of spam comments within the past several days and it is to just several posts that the spam has been coming to.Â I turned off commentsÂ to those posts, and then theÂ spam comments started coming to several others.

Spam pic

The spam comments look just like the pic above. I am wondering if the I need to upgrade my wordpress to get these spam comments to stop.Â Anyone have any advice? I do have askiment installed and it had been working, but suddenly I am flodded with this crap.

Any suggestions would be deeply appreciated.

Written by Pixelhead on October 28th, 2007 with 10 comments.
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John Kain
#1. October 29th, 2007, at 10:15 AM.

well you can try blocking the ip address where the spams are originating from.

Pixelhead
#2. October 29th, 2007, at 2:39 PM.

I looked at the Ip addresses and it appears there about 10 different ones. Will see if that does the job.

David Hopkins
#3. October 29th, 2007, at 9:30 PM.

It is best to go with some WP build like K2 and get a adding a capthca like the one on this page:

http://www.theatons.com/blog/2007/10/14/apache2-allowing-from-only-your-localhost-specific-ips-and-redirecting-for-others/

P.S. I like your ainmated gif logo. Very original

Pixelhead
#4. October 29th, 2007, at 11:09 PM.

David, I think when I upgrade I will use capthca.
Lizzie my wife made the gif last year.

James
#5. October 30th, 2007, at 4:36 AM.

Try using the plugin found at http://akismet.com/

Used to face the same problem until I installed it. My spam days are over:)

Mauro C.
#6. October 30th, 2007, at 8:09 AM.

Hey Adam,
Thanks a lot for the coffee
Best regards for you and Lizzie
Thanks again my friend.

News Archive
#7. October 30th, 2007, at 2:44 PM.

askimet plugin will help

Joe
#8. October 30th, 2007, at 7:51 PM.

Hey Adam,
I agree with John, block the IP. You can also block the EM and the Name.
If that fails, hire a hit man!

Pixelhead
#9. October 30th, 2007, at 9:14 PM.

Monday morning the comments seemed to dwindle to just a couple. I did look up the Ip Address and sent several emails out requesting they not leave any more comments. Have not had any in a day or so.
In all there were 10 different IP Addresses being used,but the emails were different gmail accounts along with different names. But all were very similar to the spam comment above.

GeegeR
#10. October 31st, 2007, at 8:34 PM.

Did you try it?? Did it work???

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