[MT-users] Major increase in attempted spam?

[Tracey Shirtcliff]

I've been done too!  With the same people as David.

Worst of all my New years resolution was to be better at blogging -
hummmm.

Tracey

-----Original Message-----
From: mt-users-bounces at paulm.com [mailto:mt-users-bounces at paulm.com] On
Behalf Of David Jennings
Sent: 02 January 2005 13:10
To: List for users of Movable Type on paulm.com
Subject: Re: [MT-users] Major increase in attempted spam?

At 5:46 pm +0000 31.12.04, Jem Finer wrote:
>On 31 Dec 2004, at 12:17, David Jennings wrote:
>
>>In the last three days the error log for my blog has increased to 
>>between 20 and 50 times its usual size.
>
>
>I've had that too . . its not just you !

Looking at my logs it's fairly clear where these spam attempts are 
originating. Here's a list of my failed referrers in the last week:

133: http://viagra.hosting4u.gb.com/
105: http://texasholdem.4free.gb.com/
70: http://soma.hosting4u.gb.com/
67: http://carisoprodol.hosting4u.gb.com/
61: http://adipex.4free.gb.com/
57: http://ambien.4free.gb.com/
56: http://credit-card.hosting4u.gb.com/
55: http://poker.4free.gb.com/
53: http://cialis.hosting4u.gb.com/
50: http://credit-cards.hosting4u.gb.com/
50: http://student-loans.4free.gb.com/
50: http://poker-rules.4free.gb.com/
49: http://payday-loans.hosting4u.gb.com/
49: http://private-mortgages.4free.gb.com/
48: http://levitra.hosting4u.gb.com/
43: http://generic-viagra.4free.gb.com/

I also had 288 (!) successful spam attempts the night before last. 
Starting 6 minutes into the New Year and carrying on until about 3am. 
Sad b*stards.

I deleted all of them before noon the same day, but what's 
particularly annoying is that they were successful in their aim. If 
you do a Google search for 'real rape gallery' my blog gets listed on 
the basis of the three comments posted at 1.30am, which I removed at 
11.30am.

Is there anything we can do to 'shop' these perpetrators to Google? 
Presumably Google doesn't like have their searches polluted in this 
way, and would like to find some way to improve their algorithms to 
filter out this rubbish?

David

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