Comments on: Link & Comment Spamming - A possible solution.

By: missi

missi — Thu, 22 Feb 2007 13:02:27 +0000

Kevin, additional rename the whole trackbackmachine. I post it here in german, here is a google-translate.

This ist a simple fix and iÂ´m 100% spamfree.

(Btw. Haydies, i need to turn on Cookies for this challenge, this is bad. :\ )

By: kevin

kevin — Thu, 22 Feb 2007 03:59:14 +0000

Hi Missi, I use the same php code you use it works very well for me as well.

By: Missi

Missi — Wed, 30 Aug 2006 03:40:24 +0000

Hi, i have an additional field in my weblog against commentspam and a rule in my htaccess against trackbackspam. This rule blocks the direct acess on wp-trackback.php.
(RewriteRule ^wp-trackback\.php.*$ - [F,L]) It works perfect.

(Sorry for my english, my german is much better. :o) )

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By: Nounours

Nounours — Tue, 29 Aug 2006 19:09:34 +0000

You are not the only one to have this problem. I did not experiment by myself but it seems to work.
The idea is to make people recognize pictures like kitten or others animals.

http://www.thepcspy.com/articles/security/the_cutest_humantest_kittenauth

Hope it can help you

Good luck :p

By: Pedro Pinheiro

Pedro Pinheiro — Tue, 29 Aug 2006 18:23:05 +0000

Two comments:
1) If the questions are mainly of the yes/no type, a brute force attack will overcome the difficulty. And the “what is 20+5″ and similar questions are subject to be answered by systems like google (try to type “what is 10 times 5″ on google), which the boots could use;
2) What happens exactly when you get it wrong? Does it give you immediately another chance to answer another question correctly? If so, it would also make it more vulnerable to brute force attacks.

I personally like the system implemented on Wordpress. You can set several parameters regarding the number of links in the comment, or if to allow only comments from users that have already had comments aproved before (identified through the e-mail given, no e-mail confirmation is sent).

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blah — Tue, 29 Aug 2006 13:56:04 +0000

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