[MT-users] Major increase in attempted spam?

[Paul Makepeace]

Je 2004-12-31 12:17:41 +0000, David Jennings skribis:
> In the last three days the error log for my blog has increased to 
> between 20 and 50 times its usual size.
> 
> Inspection of the logs shows that there have been a massive number of 
> (failed) attempts to access the mt-comments.cgi and mt-tb.cgi files - 
> presumably with the intention of using them to create spam, if the 
> files were there, which happily they're not.

A coupla months ago I said I would be removing these default files in
favour of replacement named ones with info on how to update your site.
I've canned these old-named scripts (at last) so spammers trying these
files will be rejected -- as you're seeing.

If your templates still refer to mt-comments.cgi and mt-tb.cgi comments
& trackbacks'll be broken.

More: http://paulm.com/mail/mt-users/2004-October/000067.html

Paul

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