Spam on my blog

Hades · Share | #1 (**permalink**) 03-13-2007, 04:34 PM

Hello all,

Lately I have been receiving a lot of spam on my personal blog's guestbook. I have programmed it manually so I have full control over the code. (It's in spanish, don't mind if you don't understand a word of it).

Most of the spam messages have this information:

Name: lindi + (2 random chars)
Email: lindi+(2 random chars)+@mail.com
Site: some online pharmacy link.
Text: A list of links to buy online products from that business.

I usually receive about 10 submissions per day with this content. My first attempt to solve this was to set up a administrator confirmation for every submission, so the post is stored in the database but I have to read it before it is published.

But the messages keep coming even if I don't approve any of them. So I think it is about an automatic submission program that is attacking my website.

What do you think that will be the best solution for this?

-Should I set up a Human-Confirmation image for every submission?
-Can I install some script to monitor the posts and find some pattern to filter and avoid new messages from coming?
-Can I report this to any organization by sending them the website address and the IP from the post account? (sorry if I'm being innocent, but never have this issue before).

Thank you,

Cris.

DarrenC · #2 (**permalink**) 03-13-2007, 05:02 PM

You need to be able to moderate your guest comments, what blog software are you using or is this your own design?

Have a look at http://akismet.com/

Hades · #3 (**permalink**) 03-13-2007, 05:05 PM

I'm not using any, just written every line of code (even the posts are written by me with XHTML).

Thanks for the link, I'll take a look at it!

DarrenC · #4 (**permalink**) 03-13-2007, 05:08 PM

Nice blog if you have written it yourself. Whilst it's great you have this talent, I would be tempted to opt for a blog application that is supported by thousands of people, because plugins like Askimet are created for the thousands.

Hades · #5 (**permalink**) 03-13-2007, 05:13 PM

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Nice blog if you have written it yourself. Whilst it's great you have this talent, I would be tempted to opt for a blog application that is supported by thousands of people, because plugins like Askimet are created for the thousands.

Thanks, I usually do not install any software if I have the chance to write a program with a good functionality. Love to have control over all the code.

I'll manage it to adapt the Akismet API in order to work with my blog application.

Thanks again for the link!