Thanks for the suggestion - I'll try upgrading later this week (dreading it) and will report back.

For some reason the Spam Protector plugin on my blog isn't preventing a single spam message. On the 'Configure Plugins' page it shows it's an active 'event plugin' but somehow it's not working. This morning I set 'Emergency comment shutdown' to 'Yes', but even that hasn't stopped the flood.

I ...