A Losing Battle with Blog Comment Spam? Is Share This Plugin at Fault?

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Here's another useful tool: Spam Karma 2.3
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At some days ago, a usually police at the companies were not using internet for keep contact with customers and providers. Because the fear to been attack for hackers and spammers. But now, any that don't use internet is virtual dead.
There're tools and plugin that made the art of blogging more easy and efficient. But ignore or not use them because you was attack or may be you'll be, it's a bad practice. It's like the virus or electronic fraud, you don't decide never use your debit card, because one or several time was clonning your account.
The best of the free software community, is the help together again the bad code and persons.
Many host offer solutions over spam, keep track with updates for your plugins. And most important report the spammers. I always do it.
You never let that other take your rights.

Is anyone else finding the comment above me rather ironic considering the title of the post? ... And what in the hell is he saying?

Thanks!

Cool, hope it does the job for you.

Chris - Thanks for the info. I'd heard of BadBehavior, but never installed it. I've got it on all my blog sites now, thanks.

I think the plugin you need is Bad Behavior. With it off, I get about 300 spams a day to review in Akismet. With it on, it's 10-15.

It stops an awful lot of the bots from getting close enough to 'comment' :-)

There is an anti-spam plugin especially for trackback spam that I saw recently, but I can't remember where.....

Thanks for the feedback, Jenn! I appreciate it.

Zombie bots search for known exploitable patterns in websites. Whether it is a PHP/mailto form vulnerability used to sent out regular spam through other peoples'/companies' websites or a WordPress plugin, it's what they go after.

If the ShareThis plugin doesn't speak to the anti-spam filter plugin, then it's likely that the spam is entering though the ShareThis plugin backdoor.

Hey Jenn - it was good meeting you at OpenCoffee. I realize that it is mostly auto-generated, but the issue I was having was that my filters kept failing - for like a week. All of a sudden after writing the post, it surprisingly stopped. Strange coincidence, I think.

Hi Josh,

I believe we met last week at Opencoffee.

The issue with blogspam, and webform spam in general is, almost all of it is generated by zombie robot armies (yes, I wish I had a photo too).

You can see some replication in sources over time, but it doesn't take much thought or effort by these scammers' to infect more broadband-connected home computers with viruses, worms or trojans that send spam email or spam webforms all day.

I just returned to blogging last week after abandonning a Movable Type-based blog three years ago because every time I'd return to my blog, there would be 3000 comments about pills, spread across a couple hundred posts. Luckily I haven't been noticed by the spammers yet.

Last summer, the spambots discovered one of my oldest web services (http://jenn.com/canadian/canadian.shtml). I chose to write a spam filter rather than abandon it, because it was over 10 years-old and shutting it down wasn't an option.

Four lines of perl and a 150 word "spamword" list syphen off the spam attempt information to a non-visited page (http://jenn.com/canspam.html). So honorary Canadians can now celebrate in a now over 99% spam-free (It is also very mean) environment.

- Jenn