Advantage Consulting Services: Spammers
Earlier today, I posted about spam received in a blog comment that was clearly posted by an actual person. In that post, I mentioned tracking down (not hard in this case) and calling the company that...
View ArticleEliminating (Most) Trackback Spam
Well, wordverify has taken care of almost all comment spam, except for human spammers, of course. However, trackback spam, since it is by definition automated when working properly, cannot be...
View ArticleBMW.de De-listed
BMW.de was yanked from google’s index this week, for violating google’s policy in some shady SEO tactics involving javascript redirects. Good for them. (Hat tip: Chris) The post BMW.de De-listed...
View ArticleThe Battle Continues
Well, yesterday’s foolproof method of defeating trackback spam is today’s old news. Seriously no less than 24 hours after I proclaimed victory, I have started getting trackback spam that defeats the...
View ArticleVigilantism
Blue Security, the geniuses that made news a while back advertising their intent to create a network to DoS spammers, are back in the news again. The reason is hardly surprising. Blue Security...
View ArticleLarge Botnet Attack
So, the inspiration for writing this script was so that I could quickly and effortlessly visualize some of the stats from my webserver logs on the fly. The reason was that I have noticed a huge influx...
View ArticleACS SEO
Early this year, we posted the story of a spammer that left a comment spam on our site — circumventing the spam protection (Wordverify) manually. This week, their director of marketing contacted me...
View ArticleBlacklists: What they are and how to avoid them
If you thought that anti-spam protection for your incoming mail would alleviate your e-mail problems forever, think again – another issue that can cause more than a few headaches are DNS BlackLists...
View ArticleGoogle and Greylisting
We’d have a recent spat of complaints from our Swirbo customers regarding their inability to receive mail from certain Google apps — i.e. if you invite someone to view a blog, or docs.google.com...
View Articlesiteground’s braindead spam-filtering
We have a customer of ours who pays us both for e-mail/web hosting as well as our anti-spam/anti-virus relay service, Swirbo. Swirbo is a service that filters mail by having mail for a domain sent to...
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