Blog get spammed!!?! how to stop it?

I have changed the name of my comments php file as suggested in another thread and it seems to have killed it. Can’t be sure though because one single comment did seem to sneak in but insignificant compared to my previous torrent. But for a quick and very simple fix it certainly seemed to deliver as advertised.

The poker guy hit me too – first day my blog was up! Thanks everyone for the ideas…

I started getting blog-spammed by this poker jerk too. It turns out his site is an affiliate of Empire Poker, and he’s violating their affiliate agreement by spamming blogs like this on their behalf. So I suggest everyone here send an email to [email protected] (email address grabbed from their web site) to complain about this spammer and ask that they terminate his affiliate account immediately. His affiliate ID is apparently 1710078. I’ve already done this myself, so I suggest all of you do the same — the more complaints they receive, the better. At least we should be able to keep this jerk from continuing to make money from such annoying behavior.

Hmm, I am not so sure that an online poker site even one as repuatable…wait a minutea€?? is going to be to bummed out by a few emails from bloggers. No offense, really. I read the agreement and there is one token reference to spamming under “Fraud Traffic.” Maybe if one of you is an attorney too and could send them something with a little more teeth they would stop him, but I reckon he’s generating some revenue for them. I hate him too, and I guess this isn’t going to hurt, exept to give them more email addresses. I dunno, maybe I’m too bitter.

I tried sending an e-mail to the online poker people, that affiliates@… e-mail address does not work.
Just to let everyone know.

I tried sending an e-mail to the online poker people, that affiliates@… e-mail address does not work.

It rarely ever does.

I have a question about changing the comments.php and comments-post.php. has anyone tried it? Has it worked for others becuase it has not worked for me. Please let us all know. I just got hit by that poker fucker.

it works for the lazy spammers, but it can easily be circumvented by checking the source of page.

Changing wp-comments-post.php (as described here: https://www.ads-software.com/support/3/13443 ) works great for me. Just a few tips, make sure the new name has nothing to do with comments or post and delete the old wp-comments-post.php file after uploading the new one. You don’t need to change the wp-comments.php file.

How about making anti robot verification using picture with embedded text in it and some transforms to make it impossible (very difficult) to use automatic OCR. Same as in Yahoo mail sign in.
Put this both registering as a new user and posting a comment without logging in. This should stop automatic spamming.
php images gives quite good tools, but there is not very good image manipulation.
Some example code to get started:
<?php
$string = rand(1,9999);
$im = imagecreate(100,50);
$bg_color = imagecolorallocate($im, 200, 255, 255);
$tx_color = imagecolorallocate($im, 0, 0, 00);
$px = (imagesx($im)/2 – 7.5 * strlen($string)) ;
imagestring($im, 5, $px, 9, $string, $tx_color);
if ($im !== false) {
header(‘Content-Type: image/png’);
imagepng($im);
imagedestroy($im);
}
else {
echo ‘Error creating image’;
}
imagepng($im);
imagedestroy($im);
?>
I will try to make some patch to wordpress. If it is left as option and disabled as default it would be great.
Data can be transferred back to wordpress using md5 hash over known key and random value. Random value should be created during installation.

https://www.gudlyf.com/index.php?p=376
https://www.wellardsworld.com/content/wphacks#imageauth

The picture verification hack MUST be implemented as part of the core development NOW – please! It would be a great help in preventing SPAM and make WordPress so much better to use.

Hello everyone,
I’ve been having the same issues with some spammer on one of my sites. Unfortunately the site it’s happening to is ran with Cafe Log. But I am making the jump to WordPress soon.
I found this post doing a search on Google so I thought it would be appropriate to put my temporary solution on here for others to see and get a basic idea that they can probably build.
Here is the code.
‘// Catch Spammer
$spammer = array(‘poker supplies’,
‘poker’,
‘free online poker’,
‘poker rooms’,
‘pacific poker’,
‘world poker tour’,
‘poker tips’,
‘wsop’,
‘paradise poker’,
‘texas hold\’em poker’,
’empire poker’,
‘poker rules’,
‘internet poker’,
‘poker online’,
’empirepoker’,
‘online poker sites’,
‘partypoker’,
‘WPT’,
‘poker tables’,
‘online poker rooms’,
‘poker books’,
‘texas holdem poker’,
‘party poker’,
‘poker chips’,
‘free poker online’,
‘texas hold\’em’,
‘casino’,
‘casino games’,
‘casino online’,
‘free casino games’,
‘internet casino’,
‘free casino online’,
‘online blackjack’,
‘online casino’,
‘free online casino’,
‘gambling’,
‘blackjack’,
‘roulette’,
‘poker stars’);
if (in_array($author, $spammer, true)) {
print “<script language=\”JavaScript\”> \n<!–\n window.location=\”https://www.anti-leech.com/spam/spambot_stopper.php\&#8221;; \n // –> \n</script>”;
exit;
}’
Again this is a temporary solution and this is being posted just to help where I can.
Thanks,
George

Oops it looks like it didn’t like the JS but here it is
‘window.location=\”https://www.yourdomain.com/\&#8221;; \n’

Thanks George, but we have plenty of solutions like that all ready. https://www.tamba2.org.uk/wordpress/spam/