Today I got my first comment spam! From my server logs:
221.224.33.227 - - [03/Sep/2004:06:29:44 -0400] "GET /mike/index.php?/archives/31_....
168.187.1.13 - - [03/Sep/2004:06:30:37 -0400] "POST /mike/index.php?url=http://boonedocks.net/mike/index.php&/archives/31_....
200.45.71.40 - - [03/Sep/2004:06:30:40 -0400] "GET /mike/index.php?url=http://boonedocks.net/mike/index.php&/archives/31_....
168.187.1.13 - - [03/Sep/2004:06:30:43 -0400] "GET /mike/serendipity.css.php....
According to some tracerouting, the 168.187.1.13 address is supposedly in/near Kuwait. The 221.224.33.227 address is in/near China, and the 200.45.71.40 address is supposedly in/near Argentina.
And as I was writing this, they went and spammed 15 more entries, using 61.145.73.222 (China), 210.5.71.243 (Philippines), and 212.38.134.210 (unknown). Wonder if these are all compromised machines, or if they're complicit?
Argh, I need to find a spam-bot blocker. Who'd have thought my blog was worthy of such attention?
Update: Apparently I'm
not the only Serendipity Blog user to get hit by this.
Argh, maybe running a blog is a bad idea. It seems to be the next spam battleground. First it came in the form of comment spam, usually from random IP addresses that always noted the referer 12.163.72.13. I'm not the only one who had that problem. I cr
Tracked: Nov 10, 09:48