BurningbirdComment spammers have now been replaced by hackers. New comment spam, wording of which I have left, has a link that goes to a site that has so many out of control media and pop ups in it, it took my Mac down. Yes. My Mac. Look for this link – http://www.nero-online.org/lastmeasure DO NOT CLICK […]
Ah me, what a dangerous combination: a weblog and an inability to get away from the computer with hikes and other exercise due to not being able to do more than hobble from my bedroom to the bathroom. I did not have a particularly good night last night as all the various parts of me […]
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. Six Apart has released MT 2.66 specifically because of comment spam. One change is throttle control, which means if you get hit from the same IP address with several comments in a row, MT will shut down the IP. This wouldn’t have helped with the recent comment blitz because that person […]
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. I’m not starting up Burningbird but a lot of good people were hit badly by a very sophisticated comment spam attack, including the Wayward webloggers who I’m responsible to. The attackers this time only posted three comments to each post, each with different names, and different URLs. They either used […]
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. Time to take a break from photos and philosophy, and feed the machine. I have a file that maintains a list of 404 accesses, and the URL where the missing resource access originated. The file most accessed is the old Alter Ego weblog’s rss.xml feed. Since I closed the weblog […]