I got hit last night with a particularly nasty spambot that managed to leave more than 350 spam comments on my blog despite the fact that I caught it relatively early. With a little help from WordPress forums and a lot of help from dda over at Headspin, the issue seems to have been resolved, but an unfortunate occurrence nevertheless. Dda wrote up a very nice human verification code for my blog, and those using WordPress blogs should visit the forums and download the counter-spambot plugin lest something like this happen to you.
I don’t know who designs these spambots, but I’m pretty certain there is room reserved for them in the deepest reaches of Hell.
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You were probably hit by our friends at Kornet who are the number two source of spam, phishing and virus injection in the world . . . or was it maybe the Korean Government out for revenge — oh wait, Kornet is a government organization too so . . .
I got hit too. I was going to write you and ask what you use, but I guess I don’t have to do that. The blacklist has been ineffective to say the least. Let’s hope this works.
Did you do something special to get yours to work? I activated the plugin to no result.
BTW, readers of Marmot’s interested in installing a similar challenge procedure on WordPress can contact me (ask Marmot for my email address, or contact me via my blog, there is an Email form).
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