January 12, 2004

New Comment Spam Defence

This morning I found myself checking my SpamAssassin logs, and finding that I was just hit with another round of comment spam... 97 entries in less than 10 minutes... all of which were from the ip 207.29.194.4.

I get about 4 or 5 daily, and I just manually delete them, but 97 entries were too much for me... I needed a better solution. While talking to Alan he suggested I check out MT-Blacklist.

WHAT A FIND!!!

In less than 5 minutes I had this MoveableType plug installed, and 53 seconds later it removed every comment spam from the IP, and set up a new defensive perimeter around my comments.

Thanks to Alan for pointing it out. And thanks to Jay Allen for an AWESOME plugin to battle the beasts of the net!

Posted by SilverStr at January 12, 2004 10:32 AM | TrackBack