Date: 03/01/05 (Java Web)    Keywords: software, virus, spam

The famous spam tool is looking for a home, after recent eviction by MCI, some no-name Russian firm and finally by Lycos! US telco MCI Worldcom has caved in to mounting pressure and booted a site that sells spamming software off its network. Send-safe.com, which sells a package that uses broadband-connected PCs infected by viruses such [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/anyone-with-a-home-for-recently-homeless-send-safe-spam-tool/

Date: 02/12/05 (Java Web)    Keywords: spam

I accidentally stumbled upon a site ( spam-guard[dot]blogspot[dot]com ) which exists for the sole purpose of spamming. It is a spam blog! For sometime spammers have targeted blogs, first through comment spam and now increasingly through trackback spam. While bloggers are adopting measures like captcha and spam karma to thwart them they have turned to another [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/new-horizons-in-spamming-aka/

Date: 02/04/05 (Java Web)    Keywords: spam

A very simple trick for clueless trackback spammers attacking WordPress Blogs. Delete your first post (id 0). Write the same content in another post. I receive many trackbacks targeted for the first post. They never show up as the post isn't there! I am assuming you have word filter enabled too. That is a must.

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/simple-tip-for-trackback-spam-prevention-on-wordpress-blogs/

Date: 02/04/05 (Java Web)    Keywords: spam

"The hardest form to spam is that which requires manual authentication such as captchas." - LinkSpammer interviewed at Register.co.uk. That validates (from horses mouth) what I have been arguing for long. Hmm. Have I insulted the horse species in the process? The trackback is still an open issue. However so far I find them easy to filter [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/the-hardest-form-to-spam-is-that-which-requires-manual-authentication-such-as-captchas-linkspammer/

Date: 02/01/05 (Java Web)    Keywords: asp, spam

Yesterday I found some (around 20) irrelevant medical ads in my spam-trap :) Today I got a comment: "This site has --expletive deleted-- nasty hidden script (which prevents me from spamming)" - wrote some exasperated kiddie-comment-spammer in his comments. You bet! It appears that the spammers have resorted to trackback spamming to get around captcha. Unfortunately for them there [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/this-site-has-nasty-hidden-script/

Date: 12/25/04 (Java Web)    Keywords: spam

My recipe for getting rid of comment spam once and for all: Install WordPress 1.2.1 or later. Install ImageAuth hack Go to Options Tab. Under Discussion ensure: Email me whenever: Anyone posts a comment is checked. Email me whenever: A comment [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/recipe-for-a-comment-spam-free-site-for-wordpress-users/

Date: 12/24/04 (Java Web)    Keywords: spam

I have been unable to submit a comment in a site with spam karma enabled. So I wrote a comment in the spam karma plugin site. Wonder of wonder's the spam karma filter trigerred again! And then it took me to a CAPTCHA plugin :) After validating it complanied again by throwing me a beautiful looking [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/bad-karma-by-spam-karma-filter/

Date: 01/19/05 (Asp Dot Net)    Keywords: programming, web, spam, microsoft

I know this is spamming the group, but I really wanted to get the word out (as late as it is) about our great presentation tomorrow. Please accept my apologies.

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ST. LOUIS VISUAL BASIC.NET USER GROUP MEETING NOTICE
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Date: Wednesday, January 19, 2004
Time: 6:15 - 9:00 PM

Asynchronous Programming

by: CARL FRANKLIN

Door prizes available!!

Location: Three City Place, aka The Microsoft Building. From 270, exit Olive, go east. Turn left onto City Place.

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MEETING LOCATION CHANGE
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We are moving. We will be meeting in the main meeting room on the 11th floor of Three CityPlace.

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MEETING DETAILS
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Did you know that you can take advantage of multithreading in the Microsoft .NET Framework without having to explicitly create new Thread objects? You can call web services, print, and do other yawn-inducing tasks asynchronously using the Asynchronous Programming Model in the Framework. There are issues with synchronization, however, especially when calling async methods from a Windows Form. In this talk Carl will walk you through the issues and give you some really useful code that you can implement to make your components thread-safe for Windows Forms applications.

Some of you might know the name of Carl Franklin from his .Net Rocks internet radio show. You also might be familiar with his training services. No matter how you know the name, now's your chance to meet the man.

Visit www.stlvbug.org for more information.

Source: http://www.livejournal.com/community/aspdotnet/24118.html

Date: 02/23/05 (Mozilla)    Keywords: linux, spam

Crossposted to linux, linuxsupport, openoffice and firefoxusers:

Profuse apologies for spamming the community, I promise it won't happen again (until another article is published) - Philip's Adventures with the Penguin: A Linux Diary will now be indexed at this page - so watch here for the bi-monthly updates.

Also, you may friend penguin_adv for notifications on your friends list when new articles are posted.

Source: http://www.livejournal.com/community/mozilla/253833.html

Date: 02/26/05 (WebDesign)    Keywords: spam

This may be something completely obvious. If so, I'm sorry, but I cannot figure out why when I open my site in IE, the message "an error has occurred running scripts on this page" displays. I am not running any scripts, though, other than one to mask my email address from spambots, and it's only on a couple of pages, not all of them.

Any suggestions will be greatly appreciated.

Source: http://www.livejournal.com/community/webdesign/815463.html

Date: 09/24/04 (Web Hosts)    Keywords: database, sql, spam

I upgraded my primary mail server to SpamAssassin 3.0.0 last night. So far so good, it has a full updated ruleset to catch more spam. I noticed 2.5.x was starting to let a lot slip through the cracks. It also has modules to store auto white listing and bayes in an sql database now which is sweet. So i have awl, bayes, and custom user preferences all stored in the sql database. So far its catching WAY more spam than the old version.


Release Notes

SpamAssassin


:)

Source: http://www.livejournal.com/community/webhosts/19464.html

Date: 02/19/05 (Computer Help)    Keywords: spam

Growl. for some absurd reason though the code exists on the comp my comp it's disappearing or part of my code as I upload, it changes what the code is deleting some whilst I upload so there's no dop banner and no content!

Anyone got a clue what could cause it? I use smartftp to ftp and the site I'm working on is at http://www.hawks-haven.com that's the index page, only one so far cause I'm redoing the whole site and testing the new design fully getting it up first.

Addendum...
Below the cut leads to the spam of the two pages I wind up with... the one I wrote and that exists on my comp... and the one that somehow it morphs into as I ftp it. Tried three different ftp programs... don't get why my code is changing.

Original page code:

Source: http://www.livejournal.com/community/computer_help/337625.html

Date: 03/02/05 (Java Web)    Keywords: spam

I have upgraded this blog to WordPress 1.5. With it I am progressively redesigning this blog to simplify accessing of *content*. "Content is the King" as they say. Along with it I have removed CAPTCHA for the time-being to experiment with other means of SPAM Control like Blacklisting, first time approval required etc. as [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/few-thoughts-on-wordpress-15-upgrade/

Date: 03/03/05 (Java Web)    Keywords: spam

A recent trend in spamming observed in Larry Seltzer's blog and elsewhere is to use very small font size characters to create an ascii art to provide spam messages. What is interesting is that unlike the example above spammers can use legitimate email messages chosen randomly from computers they have hacked to create the ascii [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/how-to-combat-small-font-spam/

Date: 01/01/70 (Webmaster View)    Keywords: security, spam

Using mod_security to kill comment spam.

• ModSecurity.
• mod_security rule generator.

Comments

Source: http://www.webmasterview.com/blogging/mod_security_and_comment_spam

Date: 01/01/70 (Webmaster View)    Keywords: software, web, spam, yahoo, google

Google, MSN and Yahoo! announced their support for rel="nofollow" attribute to hyperlinks. They will ignore links with this attribute to prevent comment spam. Movable Type and other blog software makers and service providers also announed their support. Movable Type released a plugin to modify all links in comments and trackbacks to include the rel="nofollow" attribute.

Links:

• Google: Preventing comment spam
• Yahoo! Search: A Defense Against Comment Spam
• msn search: Working Together Against Blog Spam
• six apart: Support for nofollow

figby.com says: "Dishonest webmasters will use this attribute ... on all external links, to prevent precious PageRank from leaking out of their sites." and,

we'll also see people who sell links based on their PageRank and then add the nofollow attribute later, making the purchased links worthless-but as far as I'm concerned, anything that hinders the widespread practice of selling links for ranking can't be a bad thing.

Comments

Source: http://www.webmasterview.com/search_engines/nofollow

Date: 01/01/70 (Programming)    Keywords: spam

I was looking around at different Blog anti-spam options today and I found the link below. Check it out it, may help stop spammers on your blog because their spam would be worthless. Movable Type 'nofollow' plugin...

Source: http://www.coreycollins.com/blog/archives/000057.php

Date: 12/21/04 (Java Web)    Keywords: spam

Excerpt from the best spam of 2004: In 1977, Kaplan Education LTD was sued by the Federal Trade Commission at Federal Trade Commission v. Kaplan Education, LTD, et al, 433 F. Supp. 989, *; 1977 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 15398, **; 1977-2 Trade Cas (CCH) P61, 541, for false, misleading, and deceptive representations. Thereafter, the company was [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/gem-of-a-spam/

Date: 12/18/04 (Java Web)    Keywords: html, technology, spam

A wonderful christmas/hanukkah present I must say :) http://tech.nytimes.com/aponline/technology/AP-Spam-Lawsuit.html Looks like if you are in Iowa you can claim damages of 10 $ per spam! Wondering if I should shift my residence to IOWA. Looking at the amount of spam I get I could be a millionaire in no time :)

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/landmark-judgement-of-1-billion-awarded-to-isp-in-anti-spam-suit/

Date: 12/07/04 (Java Web)    Keywords: spam

Finally I took the step to get rid of comment spam without time consuming moderation, which I have been doing so far. My quest first started with a simple solution - moderation of all comments. Recently I started getting over 600 spams daily! Things started to get out of hand. A good option was using Captcha as [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/bye-bye-comment-spam/