www.tigerspice.com spam

Why don’t you try the Spam Karma plugin?

If by “immediate” you mean “like, instantly, man”, then what’s happened is that tigerspice (or rather, the spammer on their behalf) has added comments to your database for posts that don’t yet exist.

By doing that, they can bypass most spam-blocking plugins. There is a plugin called “BadPostID” that’ll prevent it at https://charles.gagalac.us/wordpress-plugins/bad-post-id/

Unfortunately, it won’t clear out comments that are already in your database, but it will prevent any more from being added.

These are the IP’s Tigerspace use to SPAM WordPress:
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I like to do it that way becacuse it also keeps mail and other spam from people like the ones running that scam from sending other things ..

Man … this thing is too much trouble.
I don’t want to have to install every plugin in the known universe, just to keep my site spam free.
I’ll try clearing the DB see if that works.

Hey I went to :
https://charles.gagalac.us/wordpress-plugins/bad-post-id/

It’s just php code.

Am I supposed to create a file called “bad-post-id.php” in my pluggins directory then copy this code into it and activate in administrator?

Yes. I understand you do not need this for WP 1.5, though.

ed: yup, that’s basically it. when you do that (you can use Notepad if you want), make sure (and double-check) that there are no blank lines before the <?php at the very top, or after the &rt;?> at the very bottom – otherwise evil things can happen.

as for “every plugin in the known universe”, i hardly think that “2” qualifies. spam is a problem for *every* blog program. different blogs have different ways of dealing with it. personally, i *love* the WordPress plugin architecture, since it makes it extremely easy for people with the knowledge to create fantastic anti-spam plugins – like Kitten’s Spaminator and Dr. Dave’s Spam-Karma (you’ll probably need one or the other – both might be overkill).

pericat: does 1.5 prevent comment posting on non-existent posts?

I feel very special because I actually have a solution to this. I had the same exact problem and after googling around, found a perfect solution for deleting spam comments on non-existing entries. Be glad I bookmarked the site.

Go to this page: https://www.tamba2.org.uk/wordpress/spam/

And scroll down to the second to last “section” or box, or whatever you’d like to call it. It should be titled “Spam Comments appear immediately”

It fixed my problem perfectly. Hope that helps you ??

Thanks RustIndy ??

I humbly apologise for the plugin crack.
How embarassing … I’m only new here too :-/

don’t worry about the apology – believe me, i know how frustrating spam can be. but now you know that it is not a wordpress-specific problem, and there are very effective ways of dealing with it ??

most of my problems with tiger$pice’s spams stem from the fact they’re trackbacks, not posts. fortunately, Spam Karma’s trackback option works beautifully on them ??

I have been hit by tiger$pice pretty hard lately. Spam Karma has stopped it all. Definitely consider installing it. It is well worth the short time it takes to install. ??

I’m curious, of the Spam Karma users here, what level do you have set for the option “Set the overall treatment algorithm to be: Very Strict, Strict, Normal, Lenient, Very Lenient“?

I recently changed mine to “Strict”, but was wondering if that or “Very Strict might inadvertently impact valid users from posting valid comments somehow. I haven’t received spam, but then I only made the change to the setting earlier today.

<b>RustyIndy</b> – can you explain how we might go about checking to see if these jerks have pre-planted comments in our database like so much seed?

I use SK on “normal” right now – so far nothing good has been killed, and everything bad ??

(stolen from the codex at https://codex.www.ads-software.com/Combating_Comment_Spam#Spam_Comments_appear_immediately):

DELETE wp_comments FROM wp_comments C LEFT JOIN wp_posts P ON C.comment_post_ID = P.ID WHERE P.ID IS NULL

The above SQL query will delete any comments in your database that aren’t associated with a valid post ID. If you just want to view the comments, replace DELETE wp_comments with SELECT * and run the query. The codex link above also gives info on how to do this through phpMyAdmin.

Oh, RustyIndy, nevermind about my question regarding how-to check in the database. I read further down in tamba2’s site about how to do that.

Looks like you beat me to the punch, RustyIndy. Thanks for the details!