Comments on: Sale Kameene Spam Wale Tera Muh Kala

By: Kapil

Kapil — Mon, 11 Feb 2008 15:01:56 +0000

I’ll look forward to a post “Spam problem solved” – I need a solution too.

By: Saakshi O. Juneja

Saakshi O. Juneja — Fri, 08 Feb 2008 06:45:42 +0000

Lekhni – I too heard what happened with Manish’s blog, something on same lines had happened with me as well couple of months back. As for the spam, well this was something completely unexpected – overall I must have deleted at least 400 comments. Thank God, things are back to normal.

But on the other hand self-hosted WP comes with tons of benefits, such resolvable issues shouldn’t discourage you.

TGFI – LOL! Well to be honest I am quite content with my own stock, driving in Mumbai city helps a lot in this department however, I shall keep your offer in mind.

By: tgfi

tgfi — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 23:05:34 +0000

sorry don’ t know how to help the spam issue but i can provide more gaalis if you run out.

By: Lekhni

Lekhni — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 22:43:51 +0000

First I read that Manish’s (ultrabrown) website got hacked. Now I find you are getting methodically spammed. It’s making me rethink whether I really should shift to self-hosted WP.

Did your spam problem resolve itself then?

By: Mr. H

Mr. H — Wed, 06 Feb 2008 11:02:53 +0000

Fianlly comes the super advice that you can trust (yet again!!!!) – CAPTCHA is what you should always use. Every single https site uses it (including godaddy.com). Just sign up on http://recaptcha.net/whyrecaptcha.html and you are all set to add it up as a security mechanism (Encryption technology: HASH) on your blog

By: Debashish

Debashish — Mon, 04 Feb 2008 12:11:18 +0000

Few suggestions:
1) Remove the META named “generator” from the header, that gives away your WordPress version.
2) I use a very good plugin http://www.hybrid6.com/webgeek/plugins/wp-spamfree with Akismet and it works very well.
3) As and when you get time, notice the posts that get most spam pings/comments, then edit that post and close pings/comments on that post. Sure this will stop all conversation but older posts seldom get any comments anyways.

By: arZan

arZan — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 19:30:01 +0000

OK i take back the first comment. I see u r having problems with akismet.

maybe u can get that problem resolved…..because ive had akismet on about 6 diff blogs and never a complaint…

By: arZan

arZan — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 19:27:18 +0000

also since they are from one IP address

you can go into lunarpages control panel and ban IP….

By: arZan

arZan — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 19:26:17 +0000

what about akismet.

that really works on such stuff.

Ive seen similar attacks but akismet eats them up gladly

By: Sumit

Sumit — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 11:25:10 +0000

How about this? Somewhat similar to what Blogger has, instead of inserting random text, u answer a basic arithmetic question. It would be a problem if there is a reader who is abysmally bad at math but the plugin seems pretty decent. There is an image authorization plugin too, similar to what blogger has if you prefer that. If I come across something better I'll let you know.