New Media + IT

Somehow a ton of spam comments made their way past Akismet, making me hate freakin' spammers even more!
So, as a result of this, you now have to answer a simple math question, whenever you want to leave a comment. I hope this is not a problem, if it really pisses you off, drop me a [...]

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Okay, so I knew that a lot of the blogs in the blogosphere are spam blogs, but I hadn't imagined that the number is 64 percent of all blogs in English!
This is the conclusion in a count of the pings done by the ebiquity research group at University of Maryland:
53% of all pings is [...]

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If you want more spam protection than that provided by Akismet, which comes with any WordPress 2.x installation read this article at WebProNews.

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[ categorized as: CMS, Spam ]

After a tip from a friend I found this Danish forum thread on how to delete the spam comment on MySpace, that apparently couldn't be deleted, since it embedded the text following the comment in a text field.
Well, here's the solution:
Safe Mode –> Comments –> "Delete"
That does it :D

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[ categorized as: Spam ]

A friend of mine has had her MySpace password cracked, and now some pimpled guys are having fun spreading spam comments, that can't be deleted.
This is possible because MySpace has a stupid layout, where the delete link for each comment is placed AFTER the comment, therefore it's in the code, that the comment is embedding [...]

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[ categorized as: Spam ]

Okay, it seems I was a bit too fast labeling GGfree as a ruthless spamming organization based in/on Bahamas :-)
Seems that it's a Danish company based in the Caribbean, I guess that the diffent company names ('GGfree' and 'Elisabeth Victoria Corporation') is what made me think that I was dealing with spammers…
Below is the original [...]

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[ categorized as: Spam ]

Almost all of my blogs, except this one which uses Akismet, is being flooded with spam at the moment!
It's been going on for some minutes now, and they just keep on coming.
Good thing I always leave the "Comment author must have a previously approved comment" setting on in Wordpress…

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[ categorized as: Spam ]

I finally got myself together and activated the Akismet plugin, that comes included with Wordpress 2.x. Others can download it here, but note this: you must have Wordpress 2.0 for this plugin to work.
The story
In the past weeks, I've been getting more and more spam about buying valium and all sorts of drugs. Often these [...]

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