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We got hit by Trackback Spam

We got hit by Trackback Spam 07/02/2004 07:42 PM

Well as soon as you lock one door they came in the back. This morning I woke up to over 100 spam trackbacks that where very nasty. Some of you may have seen them in our trackback tracker on the main page. I really love to give credit to those sites that quote us but I cannot risk having them on the main page. They are getting smarter as they are spoofing IP's so it's not like I can put in a IP block. So those of you using Movable Type Version 3 the backdoor is wide open.




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