Strangely Perfect

Revising the htaccess IP address block list in light of the results from recent experiments to find the current bad source addresses for registration and comment spam

I’ve had quite a few search enquiries and hits for komatoz.net on my sites recently so there are obviously a lot of people suffering out there with spamming and registration problems that I’ve “currently” ;-) got under control. (We all know that this is a continuous battle against spammers as their approaches and techniques change [...]

It’s all in the title really! However, the point of this post is that I have a few domains and it looks like the robot(s) are set up by alphabetical order, not IP order. Here’s how: Two weeks ago and previous, Domain A had loads of spam, Domain B had few Now, Domain A has [...]

Thanks Didier! Sabre appears to work! This screenshot shows two registration bot attacks on my Crawling Chaos site from Russia. This plugin just saves so much time. I just have to check occasionally to make sure I’m not blocking someone genuine. If you can’t read the details, here they are copied and pasted: onewNeemFiews email [...]

I’ve installed a plugin to attempt to block the registration spam I get. Most of it comes from Russia (mail.ru, yandex.ru, say). It’s not doing damage as I have everyone locked down to subscriber level initially – it’s more a pain to check and delete periodically. First I’ll check the username and email address strings [...]

I’ve had this in my head for a while but I just thought I’d mention it…  It’s the duff blog registrations syndrome.  Investigate and learn! Here’s some from yesterday.  Check out these two registrations on my Crawling Chaos website for instance. aclubic                                email hidden; JavaScript is required kurtizankacomuaxa    [...]