Bad Behavior is an excellent ‘profiling’ plug-in that deters most spam bots and attacks on web-based scripts, especially blogs, wikis, and forums. It uses a very detailed and sophisticated combination of checks and algorithms to create a ’spammer’s profile’ and if a visitor to your site fits it, it’ll block them.
The algorithm is so good [...]
An hour ago a spamming agency seems to have sent out thousands of messages from random @neosmart.net email adresses. NeoSmart Technologies was not involved in this spamming attempt (check the message headers!) and we’d like to assure everyone that we never have and we never will condone spam to come from our servers.
These messages were [...]
Every once in a while it comes up again. JavaScript – used totally wrong. This times it’s Hivelogic’s “Enkoder” script reborn for Wordpress. What people just don’t get is: JavaScript was never meant to be used as a heavy cavalry, a knight in shining armor, or else a bit of code that can may be [...]
It's been a hell of a month for Akismet on our site; for some reason we've had more false positives than real spam stuck in the filter, and more spam in the comments than real replies.. So we've decided to give Spam Karma 2 a chance.
I've noticed it has a helluva lot more options than [...]
