Feb 1
Spammer bounty?
If this site has been a wee bit unpredictable in the last few hours, we apologise. It seems a bunch of d.o.s. terrorists (probably looking at over 1000 spam trackbacks on this site alone) seem to have taken it into their head to take us down. Maybe we bloggers should band together and offer a bounty for every spammer’s head we get brought spammer that gets the dung kicked out of him.
Of course, the team’s thanks go to Kathy for all her help sorting it out.
Update: My ole mate, Mike got nailed by the same bastards.
Update II: Aaron has declared hunting season on spammers; which Ken approves of most heartly, as do we.
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Trackback spam on WordPress
Quick fix for trackback spam on WP. Rename your wp-trackback.php to something like wp-trackback.php.txt so they can’t find it, and so it won’t run even if they do.
I’m testing some more complex fixes/blocks so I’d really appreciate getting track…
[...] e for any lack of posting over the last day, alas we got got hammered at Dodgeblogium by a trackback spam attack. OTTH & Bloghouse (our hosts) got hammered as well; as a [...]
Was the spammer an online casio site? My site was knocked offline for a couple of hours this afternoon.
Indeed it was, Tim. Sorry, but you got in the moderation queue due to the domain name…
And yes, casino and poker spams. Hundreds and hundreds of them.