Blacklisted Comment Spammers Attack Legitimate Domain

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Comment Spammer adding legitimate sites

Comment Spammer adding legitimate sites 07/07/2004 04:07 PM

Be very carefully when blacklisting entries from comment spammers do not remove and ban in bulk as they are adding legitimate site in amongst their filth. [Dan Gillmor]

Spammers using SMTP authentication
before most legitimate programs are!

Spammers using SMTP authentication
before most legitimate programs are! 09/01/2004 04:25 AM

I am not at all surprised that Spammers are using SMTP authentication before most of the legitimate mail movers are even out of the starting blocks. Only a few firms like Santronics Inc. which has one of the industries best anti spam mail servers is up to the task of being able to determine if the spammer that is running authentication is a legitimate service or not.

I am one of the very few people in the entire world that does not have to live with Spam thanks to Santronics.

There are a small handful of companies that understand spam and understand how to stop it, but the political infighting within the standards community has delayed what is essentially a final solution it irritates me to no end. It's a political quagmire that I hope gets sorted out soon. [Techdirt]

Referer spammers are comment spammers
too

Referer spammers are comment spammers
too 02/01/2005 10:08 PM
Is there a connection between referer spamming tools such as Reffy, and mass comment spamming in Movable Type?

U.S.: Iraq wedding attack was legitimate

U.S.: Iraq wedding attack was legitimate 06/30/2004 04:23 PM

Comment spammers

Comment spammers 10/30/2003 10:25 PM
I have been spared the invasion of the comment spammers because my weblog was offline this summer. But to pre-empt them, now that comments are back, I installed Blacklist. I then did a Google query on blacklist.txt, and pasted the...

Comment Spammers Have Blogs of Their Own

Comment Spammers Have Blogs of Their Own 12/19/2004 03:44 PM
Would you be surprised to know that some people who work in the search engine "industry" know who is responsible for a lot of the comment spam out there? I met some of them recently. And some of them even have blogs of their own. Seriously. I haven't written much about this yet, but with the recent problems that have been exposed in MovableType (see: Comment Spam Load Issue, More on Comment Spamming, and Spam and the Tragedy of the...

Let's help Amazon shut-down
comment-spammers...

Let's help Amazon shut-down
comment-spammers... 09/26/2004 02:54 PM

From an e-mail I sent to Amazon today:

I don't know if this is the right e-mail address to contact you on, but I just thought I should mention that onlineshop.us.com - a site that is using the Amazon affiliates scheme - has started comment-spamming thousands of weblogs.

Today I received no fewer than fifty automated comments on my site from them - each containing dozens of URLs they want to get higher in Google - each one a site that uses Amazon affiliate links to get money. I imagine I'm one of thousands of webloggers in a similar situation. As I'm sure you can imagine, comment spammers piss off a hell of a lot of people, and bring Amazon's good name into disrepute by association. From looking through your terms and conditions I notice that you demand that associates obey laws regarding marketing spam, and as a result I imagine that you would consider the unsolicited and automated posting of marketing materials without any way to 'unsubscribe' whatsoever as (at least) highly inappropriate. The people these individuals are targeting are also highly web-savvy individuals who are more likely than most to be regular Amazon customers as well. I imagine this gives you even more reason to be concerned.

If you could ban the person concerned from your programme for violation of terms I would be extremely grateful - as I'm sure would hundreds of other people who have sites suffering abuse from this individual/organisation. I'm assuming that there's probably a way that you could refuse to pay accumulated revenues as well, and I would ask you to seriously consider this as a way of directly hurting people who try to abuse their relationship with Amazon and with the general public. Perhaps if they realise that there's no financial incentive any more for behaving like the bottom-feeding scum that they are, they might change their ways and consider getting proper jobs.

Yours, Tom Coates

Have you had comment spam from an Amazon affiliate? Help get rid of it by sending Amazon an e-mail today. If they refuse to do anything about it, then there's always the possibility of a boycott of affiliate links or a refusal to buy or promote anything from them. Hopefully it won't come to that though - I'm sure Amazon will see this as a problem...

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Anti-Mozilla Comment Spammers

Anti-Mozilla Comment Spammers 07/26/2004 10:36 AM
I've noticed a weird thing lately. From this blog post we get this comment: I don't know why you lied about the conference,...

Comment spammers inventing their own
templating language

Comment spammers inventing their own
templating language 02/05/2005 09:45 PM
Just got this spam. Even comment spammers go down the path of inventing their own templating language. Silly buggers. syn(Cool|Nice|Rulezz) syn(blog,|portal| site ! I) hope to make syn(my own|own weblog|my diary), not worse than yours ;) Also interesting to see how immature the comment spam "industry is" in the The Register interview Interview with a comment spammer. More on comment spam soon......

The Online Journalism Review wonders if
bl0ggers can win the war with comment
spammers

The Online Journalism Review wonders if
bl0ggers can win the war with comment
spammers 09/15/2004 03:40 PM
OJR article: Bloggers Declare War on Comment Spam, but Can They Win? .. Mark

ojr.org/ojr/glaser/1095201311.php
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Comment Spam Attack

Comment Spam Attack 02/05/2005 09:12 PM

So, apparently I'm not the only one that was hit by some bleepity-bleep-bleep spammer trying to post 400+ comment spams to my blogs. MT-B blocked about 300 of them, moderated 80, and let 4 through. That's pretty decent. The other 80 all had the same base domain so future attacks will fail for that one domain. There are also regular expressions in place now that should moderate the more ... interesting ones.

Your comments may get moderated if you include any terms relating to animal sex or incest. If so, I'll notice when I check my mail next and approve/reject it, so don't worry. A little delay is all. Keep those illegal-in-Alabama discussions going! Woo!

That said, I'm wondering if going TypeKey-only is the way to go. Yes, it makes you make an account (boo-hoo) but it keeps things a little more sane on the management end. If I get two more of these full-on assaults I'll do it, but not until then. It will alienate the more lazy amongst you.

Spamhaus under attack from UK spammers

Spamhaus under attack from UK spammers 06/10/2004 09:52 AM
ZDNet UK Jun 10 2004 1:39PM GMT

Microsoft unleashes legal attack dogs
on spammers

Microsoft unleashes legal attack dogs
on spammers 12/18/2003 06:57 AM
Teams up with NY

Microsoft unleashes legal attack dogs on
spammers

Microsoft unleashes legal attack dogs on
spammers 12/18/2003 06:55 AM
The Register Dec 18 2003 6:21AM ET

Blacklisted from seeing Bush

Blacklisted from seeing Bush 02/05/2005 09:14 PM
During the presidential campaign, much was made of the fact -- and rightly so -- that George Bush's campaign events were invitation-only. Now, as the president travel the country stumping for his Social Security plan, exclusivity seems to have gone to a whole new level.

Senator Blacklisted by No-Fly List

Senator Blacklisted by No-Fly List 08/20/2004 08:35 AM

How to get falsely blacklisted for
running an open spam relay

How to get falsely blacklisted for
running an open spam relay 07/06/2004 08:08 AM
It's easy. Just sign up with an ISP that issues dynamic IP addresses. That's how I got on several email "black hole" lists meant to stop spam, even though I don't spam and my system has never operated as an open relay. If you use an ISP that doesn't give you a stable IP address, you may be on one or more spam blacklists, too -- and you may not necessarily know it. Then comes the fun part: Getting off those lists can be a lot harder than getting on them.

Blog for America: Comment on Governor
Dean to Comment Shortly

Blog for America: Comment on Governor
Dean to Comment Shortly 12/16/2003 05:30 AM
America's Palestinians .. Dean for President .. campaign blog .. "Carrie B."

blog.deanforamerica.com/cgi-bin/mt/mt-comments.cgi?entry_id=2682
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Canadian Domain Name Services Inc.
(caDNS.ca) .ca Announces .ca Domain Name
Registration Price Reduction

Canadian Domain Name Services Inc.
(caDNS.ca) .ca Announces .ca Domain Name
Registration Price Reduction 07/05/2004 02:55 AM
Canadian Domain Name Services Inc. (caDNS.ca), one of Canada's leading .ca Domain Name Registrars, has lowered its price for .CA domain registrations to $19.99, one of the most competitive prices in Canada. [PRWEB Jul 5, 2004]

GoDaddy.com: : Low cost domain names,
domain transfers, web hosting, email
accounts, and so much more.

GoDaddy.com: : Low cost domain names,
domain transfers, web hosting, email
accounts, and so much more. 04/23/2004 09:32 AM

godaddy.com/gdshop/default.asp?isc=gppg0419a
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Domain Lab launches budget priced domain
registration service

Domain Lab launches budget priced domain
registration service 06/30/2004 03:17 AM
Domain Lab launches budget priced version of their corporate domain package at www.domainlab.biz [PRWEB Jun 30, 2004]

Go Daddy Software: Low cost domain name
registration and domain transfers.

Go Daddy Software: Low cost domain name
registration and domain transfers. 04/23/2004 09:32 AM

registrar.godaddy.com/default.asp?isc=gppg0419c
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Legitimate Businessmen only.

Legitimate Businessmen only. 12/26/2004 01:46 AM
Worried that the new guy might tip off the feds about your "concrete company?" The internet gives you the perfect research tool.

"or any other legitimate issue."

"or any other legitimate issue." 11/18/2003 03:20 PM

The Legitimate Hacker

The Legitimate Hacker 08/05/2004 09:38 PM

""says the memos are more than likely
legitimate""

""says the memos are more than likely
legitimate"" 06/22/2005 02:21 AM

More Spammers Threatening To Sue
Anti-Spammers

More Spammers Threatening To Sue
Anti-Spammers 06/11/2004 12:55 PM
It looks like the various spam laws that help legalize spam are making the spammers extra litigious. Following a lawsuit in the US by a spammer against an anti-spam operation for still block their email, some spammers in the UK are threatening Spamhaus with lawsuits for still having them on their blacklist. The problem is that, just because the law now gives them the permission to spam, it doesn't mean people aren't allowed to make their own private efforts to block them. The laws may allow them to send their spam, but there's nothing in these laws that require people to receive it.

Citizens for Legitimate Government

Citizens for Legitimate Government 09/24/2004 05:37 PM
baseless story with no merit .. Source

legitgov.org/essay_eastman_bush_fear_of_flying_in_guard_09230 4.html
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When Even Legitimate Emails Are
Overwhelming

When Even Legitimate Emails Are
Overwhelming 06/07/2004 10:25 AM
There have been plenty of stories about the so-called (and greatly exaggerated) "death of email." Almost all of these, however, are discussing the problems associated with spam. Professor Lawrence Lessig is discovering a different kind of problem. As he's become something of a net.celebrity he's started receiving so much personal email that he can no longer effectively respond to it all. He even sent out a note telling people he hasn't responded to that he's given up and will not be responding to their email - though, he's quite sorry about it. Still, as some people in the article point out, no one says he needs to respond to every email he receives. If someone is emailing him who does not know him, he shouldn't necessarily feel obligated to respond to each and every message. In some sense, this does raise the question about the definition of "spam" again. If spam is "anythi ng I don't like," is getting to much personal email spam as well?

Is Your MLM/Multilevel Marketing
Business Legitimate?

Is Your MLM/Multilevel Marketing
Business Legitimate? 05/11/2004 03:45 AM
WebDevInfo May 11 2004 6:51AM GMT

Is the mood changing towards the
legitimate use of P2P networks?

Is the mood changing towards the
legitimate use of P2P networks? 02/10/2004 02:48 AM
Analysis Smells like Teen Zeitgeist

People Know The Difference Between Spam
And A Legitimate Newsletter

People Know The Difference Between Spam
And A Legitimate Newsletter 02/17/2004 02:30 PM
Despite the claims from some who say that email is dead for newsletters, most people have adjusted and are smart enough to recognize the difference between an email newsletter they signed up for and spam. The real issue is that newsletter recipients are a demanding bunch (as they should be!), and have a very "what have you done for me lately?" attitude. Thus, if a newsletter isn't serving their needs, they stop reading it. For many people, simply designating a newsletter as spam and letting the filter handle the rest is much easier than the unsubscribe process that many newsletters require you to go through. The collateral damage on this is that many spam filters that take user inputs in deciding what's spam, end up declaring legitimate newsletters as spam for other users, because some felt it lost its usefulness. In other words, it's not that people are getting confused and think that legitimate newsletters are spam. It's just that the newsletters stopped being useful and the spam filter provided an easier "unsubscribe" process.

Spam fighting hurts legitimate business?

Spam fighting hurts legitimate business? 04/09/2004 04:10 PM

More Legitimate Uses Of File Sharing
Networks: Course Materials

More Legitimate Uses Of File Sharing
Networks: Course Materials 11/12/2003 01:33 PM
And, now, we have yet another example of how file sharing networks can be used for perfectly legitimate reasons. The famous Berklee College of Music is now offering 80 different lessons as audio or video files on file sharing networks. They're encouraging anyone to download them, under a Creative Commons license. They point out that this was the most efficient way to get that information out there. While some people still insist that offering stuff for free undermines the content owners' ability to make money, Berklee realizes that this actually enhances their reputation while getting more information out there - both of which are strong positives. The article includes a quote from the RIAA which misses the point, saying that they don't mind if people share their own content on file sharing networks. That may be true, but that's not the message they're bringing to politicians or the courts, where they're actively trying to shut down file sharing networks and insisting that their cannot be substantial non-infringing uses of such networks.

ACLU: Anti-porn Law Blocks Legitimate
Web Sites

ACLU: Anti-porn Law Blocks Legitimate
Web Sites 01/07/2004 07:11 PM
NewsMax.com Jan 7 2004 5:53PM ET

More Stupid Copy Protection That Does
Nothing But Piss Off Legitimate Users

More Stupid Copy Protection That Does
Nothing But Piss Off Legitimate Users 07/12/2004 05:44 PM
This certainly isn't a new or unique story, but Broadband Reports has yet another story about ridiculous and pointless copy protection. The copy protection scheme, called Starforce, appears to be mainly used for protecting certain PC games from being copied. Of course, like so many copy protection schemes it does this by assuming all legitimate customers are criminals. Not only that, but it installs itself without letting you know (not even in the EULA), hides itself on your PC, slows down the PC, causes all sorts of other problems and errors, and is nearly impossible to remove -- even after the protected application has been removed. In other words, it's just as bad as some adware/spyware out there -- except that it's screwing things up for legitimate customers who actually went out and bought the games in question. As the article points out, every one of those games is available in a cracked version online, so this "copy protection" scheme doesn't actually prevent copies. It only serves to anger legitimate customers. Why is anyone using this product on their software?

Demonstrating A Legitimate Use Of File
Sharing For Microsoft's Update?

Demonstrating A Legitimate Use Of File
Sharing For Microsoft's Update? 08/10/2004 03:43 PM
The BBC is reporting on Downhill Battle's move to offer the new Microsoft Windows XP update via BitTorrent as a way of showing how distributed file sharing applications can be used for legitimate, non-infringing purposes (though, the article hints that Microsoft isn't particularly thrilled about this). Of course, anyone who understands how BitTorrent works knows that there are already plenty of examples of non-infringing uses of BitTorrent. At this point, unfortunately, this demo may only serve to show how immature BitTorrent actually is. While the concept is great, the implementation still needs quite a bit of work.

Treat online gaming as a legitimate
industry, gov't told

Treat online gaming as a legitimate
industry, gov't told 02/01/2005 09:41 PM
News.inq7.net - Sun Jan 30, 12:55 pm GMT

Spam belt tightening done badly rejects
legitimate mail

Spam belt tightening done badly rejects
legitimate mail 01/22/2004 02:11 AM
Wanadoo, the French ISP, recently volunteered its entire dial-up IP range to the SMTP blacklists: BTOpenworld, a leading UK ISP, followed suit last week. Yahoo is touting their own proprietary extensions to SMTP; BT recently managed to mess up the DNS configuration of post.btinternet.com, resulting in them getting RBL'd. If several Small - and major - ISPs cannot configure their servers correctly such that mail can get through, what hope is there?
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Blog spammers and MT-Blacklist

Blog spammers and MT-Blacklist 04/09/2004 04:09 PM
I know it was mentioned to me before, but I didn't install MT-Blacklist until today. The blog spam just was...

Anti-spammers blacklist the competition

Anti-spammers blacklist the competition 01/22/2004 02:47 AM
SPEWS, one of the spam blacklisters, has blacklisted DSL Reports, which has been instrumental in running spammers to ground. Link

MT-Blacklist/Comment Spam Clearinghouse:
MT-Blacklist: MT Plugin Developers
Contest Grand prize

MT-Blacklist/Comment Spam Clearinghouse:
MT-Blacklist: MT Plugin Developers
Contest Grand prize 07/23/2004 08:00 PM
Jay Allen's MT-Blacklist for MT3 wins the Movable Type Developers Contest grand prize .. Here’s his reaction

jayallen.org/comment_spam/2004/07/mtblacklist_mt_plugin_dev elopers_contest_grand_prize
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MT-Blacklist/Comment Spam Clearinghouse:
MT-Blacklist v2.0e released

MT-Blacklist/Comment Spam Clearinghouse:
MT-Blacklist v2.0e released 08/17/2004 06:02 AM
MT-Blacklist 2.0e is released

jayallen.org/comment_spam/2004/08/mtblacklist_v20e_released
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Domain Specialist - The Low Cost Domain
Provider Gets a Radical New Face Lift
and Website, www.DomainSpecialist.net -
Low Cost Domains From Only $6 Have Never
Looked So Good and Been So Cheap

Domain Specialist - The Low Cost Domain
Provider Gets a Radical New Face Lift
and Website, www.DomainSpecialist.net -
Low Cost Domains From Only $6 Have Never
Looked So Good and Been So Cheap 07/13/2004 03:08 AM
The Low Cost domain specialists have now revealed there latest website at www.domainspecialist.net . Bringing you fast slickly designed and easy to navigate domain buying and website hosting. The new site offers the user more choices when ordering there domain names, copyrighting or website hosting. DomainSpecialist.net is part of the IAAM Group of Companies situated at www.ItsAllAboutMarketing.com . domain Specialist is rivaling all UK Domain providers by offering a much higher class service, cheaper prices on the same products and above all else a total internet solution. [PRWEB Jul 13, 2004]

"Getting the most out of MT-Blacklist"

"Getting the most out of MT-Blacklist" 12/28/2004 04:58 AM

MT-Blacklist

MT-Blacklist 08/10/2004 04:26 PM

MT-Blacklist - A Movable Type Anti-spam Plugin: Well, a new salvo in the war against comment spam has been launched. The idiot hawking tramadol has forced me to install MT-Blacklist. He was coming in about 10 times a day from different IP addresses, so I couldn't ban him. He seems to be locked out pretty securely now.

Great plugin. Required a little hacking to get it to work, but I'm happy. It has a great "de-spam" feature that lets you retroactively examine every past comment AND trackback for banned content. It found seven comment spams that I missed in my daily grooming, then deleted them, and rebuilt the pages. Very slick.

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MT-Blacklist bug

MT-Blacklist bug 12/19/2004 03:32 PM
Today I got this error message when killing yet another spam in my blog: "Could not save your blacklist data: Got a packet bigger than 'max_allowed_packet'" Pretty interesting error message. It didn't immediately dawn on me that this was a...

No more blacklist.txt

No more blacklist.txt 12/19/2004 03:14 PM
Recently, I’ve noticed some very strange searches coming to this site, most looking for porn, something I don’t keep at...

mt-blacklist 2.0e released

mt-blacklist 2.0e released 08/16/2004 07:51 PM
for users of MT3.0d and 3.01d. If you haven't upgraded, wait for MT3.1 in 2 weeks.

BLAcklist Manager

BLAcklist Manager 11/14/2003 04:40 AM
Website finished

"MT Blacklist plugin"

"MT Blacklist plugin" 05/20/2004 11:30 AM

more screenshots of the new MT Blacklist

more screenshots of the new MT Blacklist 08/05/2004 04:13 PM
jay's application is amazing, and these screens only show off part of what it does

Blacklist 'BlackMal'

Blacklist 'BlackMal' 09/11/2004 02:07 AM
Abcnews.go.com - Fri Sep 10, 10:49 am GMT

sa-blacklist 2004041803

sa-blacklist 2004041803 04/19/2004 04:19 AM
A list of spammer domains for mutiple free software projects.

Why is Today the Best Day Ever to Get a
Free Domain Name? .Info Domain Names
are Free Through Sept. 9

Why is Today the Best Day Ever to Get a
Free Domain Name? .Info Domain Names
are Free Through Sept. 9 09/02/2004 12:23 PM
Domainsite.com announces free domain name registration for .info domain names [PRWEB Sep 2, 2004]

Modified MT-Blacklist URL finder

Modified MT-Blacklist URL finder 06/02/2004 08:44 AM
I've modified the Outlook script I posted so that now it finds all (?) the urls in a selected set of messages in your inbox. This is useful if you receive dozens or hundreds of comment spams and want to paste all the offensive links into Jay Allen's mahvelous MT-Blacklist utility for MovableType. The copy-and-paste version is here. Please note the warnings listed in my original blogpost....

"MT-Blacklist v2.03-beta released"

"MT-Blacklist v2.03-beta released" 12/26/2004 04:29 AM

10 Days Of Running MT-Blacklist 2

10 Days Of Running MT-Blacklist 2 09/22/2004 03:07 PM
So, its been 10 days today since I installed MT-Blacklist 2.01b onto the MT 3 installation. Some statistics to prove...

DNS Blacklist Packet Filter 0.51

DNS Blacklist Packet Filter 0.51 06/05/2004 02:40 AM
A netfilter DNSBL filtering client.

Blacklisted Comment Spammers Attack Legitimate Domain

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