WP Blacklist Comment SPAM Filteration

  • I wrote a little script to fight comment SPAM much along the lines of Jay Allen’s MTBlacklist filter (but for WordPress). This really simple script is compatible with all versions of WordPress and uses a powerful master blacklist from Reflective Reality. I would really like to get some people to try and install it and see how well it works. So if you are using WordPress and have been receiving some SPAM in your comments, please help me in testing this script. WordPress 1.0+ will even allow you to view the SPAM comments without them ever being displayed on your blog (using moderation) which would mean that if you do receive SPAM and the filter catches it, you will know that the script is working. Here is a link to WPBlacklist.
    PS: Compatible with all versions of WordPress

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  • More: In looking over the blacklist, I see that part of it is obviously an old snapshot of the MT-Blacklist master but with a lot of crap added and none of the deletions that I have made.
    You’ll do yourself a big favor by getting rid of this blacklist and copying the latest list at https://www.jayallen.org/comment_spam/blacklist.txt

    Thank you Fahim! ?? Awesome!

    You’re welcome ??
    Xadrian : I too want the ability to go through all existing comments after updating the list or adding new expressions to filter. Just gonna take me a while to get to it since I’m working on something else at the moment but I’ll eventually add that one in ??

    I’ve found that the best defence is simply to set the max amount of comment links allowed to 2. I’ve never seen a commspam w/ less than 5. So far, I’ve caught every attempted commspam that’s came my way.
    My $0.02

    Good point!

    Unfortunatly today I saw a sample of comment spam w/ 1 link ??
    But on the upside, did you know that the spam words list in WP can also take IPs, email addresses, and URLs? So you can match against any of those items to block spam.
    Also, check out my comment killer plugin for auto-deleting comments that get modderated.

    I am having trouble getting Fahim’s Blacklist plugin to work. I installed it exactly as described in the ReadMe file, it installed and imported the blacklist file from Jay Allen’s site without any problem, but whenever anyone tries to post a comment, they get two errors, one which says there’s an Unknown modifier ‘k’ in the wp-content/plugins/blacklist.php file, and a second one saying that it can’t modify header information in the wp-comments-post.php file. When I deactivate the plugin, comment post without any problems (except, of course, that they’re not being screened for spam.) Any ideas on how I can fix these errors?

    I’m getting the same error as well. WP 1.2 , blacklist v.1.2 as well.

    I just got word from Fahim that the fix is here: https://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2004/06/04/wpblacklist-121-released/
    I’m going to try it out now.

    Installed 1.21 on WP 1.2, but I try posting comments with viagra in it, and it still lets me (when I am logged out)

    Also, is there a way to get a partial IP blocked, for example, all IP starting with 128.1,1.X

    another good regex resource if “regex coach” — google for it

    Hi,
    I have the blacklist plugin installed, but today I found an email with a comment to be approved.
    While trying to do this, I couldn’t, cause it was approved and up allready. The comment was a prozac spam.
    This startles me, as nobody else does have the password.
    any ideas what went wrong?
    thanks,
    jarra

    a copy of the email that wordpress send to me is here:
    https://www.jarra.nl/_TEST/spam.txt
    So it got hold to wait for approval first, but somehow approved later.
    jarra

    This was a bug in WPBlacklist which is explained here https://sm.farook.org/index.php?p=139. I’ve fixed the problem and have released WPBlacklist 1.22 which you can get from https://sm.farook.org/files/WPBlacklist122.zip

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