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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...

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Eliminating (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...

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BMW.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...

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The 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...

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Vigilantism

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...

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Large 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...

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ACS 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...

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Blacklists: 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...

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Google 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...

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siteground’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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