Wordfilter for author names sometimes not working?

[Zugschlus]

Hi,

My blog's spam filter is kind of malfunctioning. It keeps letting though about one spam trackback message a day which it *should* filter. The trackbacks usually have the name of some pharmaceutical product in the author name, and I have listed these names in the spam filter plugin's "Wordfilter for author names" list.

Why do these trackbacks go though?

Greetings
Marc

[garvinhicking]

Hi!

Can you reproduce a comment with that blocked authornames? Can you check if that feature generally works?

In the spamblock config, did you set the wordfilter action to "deny", "reject" or "none"?

Which version of the spamblock plugin are you using?

Did you enable logging to the database? There you should see verbose messages and you could check if regarding your comment that wasn't blocked anything is listed there?

Regards,
Garvin

[Zugschlus]

Can you reproduce a comment with that blocked authornames? Can you check if that feature generally works?

In the spamblock config, did you set the wordfilter action to "deny", "reject" or "none"?

Which version of the spamblock plugin are you using?

Did you enable logging to the database? There you should see verbose messages and you could check if regarding your comment that wasn't blocked anything is listed there?

I'll report back with results once the next trackback spam shows up.

Greetings
Marc

[Zugschlus]

Hi!
Can you reproduce a comment with that blocked authornames? Can you check if that feature generally works?

Since we are dealing with trackbacks, not with comments here, this might be hard to do so. I'd need to create blog named "cialis" and trackback from there. Or is there some command-line tool that can create arbitrary trackbacks?

In the spamblock config, did you set the wordfilter action to "deny", "reject" or "none"?

The wordfilter action is set to moderate, but I now see that the trackback is already moderated by Automoderation after X days since the spammers are usually tracking back ancient articles.

Which version of the spamblock plugin are you using?

1.61

Did you enable logging to the database? There you should see verbose messages and you could check if regarding your comment that wasn't blocked anything is listed there?

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mysql> SELECT timestamp,type,reason,author FROM `mh_s9y_spamblocklog` WHERE author like "buy brand amp generic cialis%";
+------------+----------+---------------------------------------------------+----------------------------------------------------+
| timestamp  | type     | reason                                            | author                                             |
+------------+----------+---------------------------------------------------+----------------------------------------------------+
| 1173664962 | MODERATE | No API-created comments (like trackbacks) allowed | Buy brand amp generic cialis online cialis center. |
| 1173664964 | REJECTED | Trackback URL invalid.                            | Buy brand amp generic cialis online cialis center. |
| 1173830965 | MODERATE | No API-created comments (like trackbacks) allowed | Buy brand amp generic cialis online cialis center. |
| 1173830967 | MODERATE | Wordfilter for author names                       | Buy brand amp generic cialis online cialis center. |
| 1173830968 | moderate | Auto-moderation after X days                      | Buy brand amp generic cialis online cialis center. |
| 1173860462 | MODERATE | No API-created comments (like trackbacks) allowed | Buy brand amp generic cialis online cialis center. |
| 1173860463 | REJECTED | Trackback URL invalid.                            | Buy brand amp generic cialis online cialis center. |
| 1174138198 | MODERATE | No API-created comments (like trackbacks) allowed | Buy brand amp generic cialis online cialis center. |
| 1174138200 | MODERATE | Wordfilter for author names                       | Buy brand amp generic cialis online cialis center. |
| 1174138200 | moderate | Auto-moderation after X days                      | Buy brand amp generic cialis online cialis center. |
+------------+----------+---------------------------------------------------+----------------------------------------------------+
10 rows in set (0.77 sec)

Only the last "Auto-moderation after X days" timestamped 1174138200 made it actually to my moderation queue.

Greetings
Marc