Comments on: Trackback Spam Attack

By: Flash Ripper

Flash Ripper — Fri, 19 Jan 2007 15:16:17 +0000

I'm here just to thank you for your post on trackback spam attack ( http://hownow.brownpau.com/archives/2005/02/trackback-spam-attack/ -- comments disabled there) It helped me to completely remove old spam trackbacks from my MT! Just for comparison: before cleaning, my MT SQL database weighted 16 Mb; after cleaning, its weight become 13 Mb. So 3 Mb of spam was trashed! Thank you!

By: rich

rich — Mon, 21 Feb 2005 12:14:29 +0000

I’ve just scraped a daily dose of 30 spam trackbacks off my site and followed your recipe.

I’m also feeling particularly vindictive – you couldn’t explain the “If you’re feeling especially mean and vindictive …” in more detail, could you?

By: padawan

padawan — Sun, 13 Feb 2005 16:23:47 +0000

Useful tip but there is another solution: get your site hosted by people who have mod_security on Apache and know how to use it. This way, they do all that work for you. My site has comments and TBs open on all entries, and I receive zero automatic spam now that it is shielded by mod_security and an excellent host team.

By: Mush

Mush — Fri, 11 Feb 2005 16:03:53 +0000

Consider yourself trackbacked: http://www.goblinbox.com/archives/000773.html ;-)

By: Solonor

Solonor — Wed, 09 Feb 2005 08:17:28 +0000

Thanks! I needed that.

Heh. That sounds like a typical spammer comment, don’t it? ;)

By: Raffy

Raffy — Tue, 08 Feb 2005 21:51:45 +0000

I was wondering if there was any way to clear those stupid sites off my trackback list. Now I know.

Great advice, Pau. I think it’s about time I killed the spammers…uh, the trackbacks too (damn Freudian slip).

By: thomas

thomas — Mon, 07 Feb 2005 14:28:38 +0000

Supposedly my spam buster (which you so kindly helped me find) prevents trackback spam, after I enabled that plugin. I didn’t have a problem with trackback spam UNTIL i installed the spam buster. How weird.

By: Paulo

Paulo — Mon, 07 Feb 2005 10:35:24 +0000

ManuelV – The best I can do is redirect them right back to his page with .htaccess. Oh, and send the access logs to the FBI Cybercrime Division, of course.

By: ManuelV

ManuelV — Mon, 07 Feb 2005 02:49:14 +0000

I hope that all this comment spam won’t eventually force bloggers to switch off Commenting.

Pero, Pau… with TB switched off, won’t your server still suffer from all the attempted pings? What can be done about this?

Thanks.

By: Chris

Chris — Sun, 06 Feb 2005 22:46:54 +0000

I turned off trackbacks and closed TB’s on all old posts last week. I’m also blocking a bunch of keywords in the referer site with .htaccess to control referer spam.

I figure Technorati will let me know when somebody links to me.