Spammers have found my blog

[Afishinado]

I set up your blog thru a-plus hosting and it has worked well for about a year. Slowly at first and now in the form of an avalanche I get spam. It appears to be thru a trackback (not sure what that is really) so I have disabled trackbacks, etc. however I am still getting nailed. Do I have a solution other than shutting down my blog?

[garvinhicking]

Hi!

To speed up things, you could edit your comment.php and insert this at the very beginning after <?php:

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if ($_REQUEST['type'] = 'trackback') die('Disabled');

That might take some load. But you sadly can't completely shut out spammers, no matter which application you use you cant' uniquely distinct spammers from real visitors.

Best regards,
Garvin

[mattsches]

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if ($_REQUEST['type'] = 'trackback') die('Disabled');

Small typo correction, it should go:

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if ($_REQUEST['type'] == 'trackback') die('Disabled');

Right?

Regards
- Mattsches

[garvinhicking]

Hi!

Yes. Hehe. It should. That explains why I didn't get any comments since last week

Best regards,
Garvin

[recentcoin]

You should make a CAPCHA plug in for any forms that are used. With the way that spam is rampant on the internet, it should be standard part of any application.

I'd file this as a feature request.

[mattsches]

There already is CAPTCHA functionality for the comment form. But you can't use CAPTCHAs for trackbacks, because trackbacks are just like pings sent from other servers/weblogs and require no manual user interaction.

[stm999999999]

Is ASKIMET for trackbacks, too?

[garvinhicking]

Hi!

Is ASKIMET for trackbacks, too?

Especially so, yes.

Regards,Garvin

[Afishinado]

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if ($_REQUEST['type'] = 'trackback') die('Disabled');

Small typo correction, it should go:

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if ($_REQUEST['type'] == 'trackback') die('Disabled');

Right?

Regards
- Mattsches

I am not sure that I have access to the source code in the version that Aplus.net offers. It is kinda turn key for us do it yourselfers that only know enough to get the baskic set up. Here is a link to my blog, maybe you could give me some info on where and how I put this code into the blog. http://976fish.com/cblog/index.php

[garvinhicking]

Hi!

Okay, you'd definitely need FTP access to that site's installation. If you don't have that, there sadly isn't a thing you can do, and you'll have to stay with the current options; or ask your server provider to make the change for you?

Best regards,
Garvin