tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-71077792009-02-21T08:40:52.235+01:00chongqedThis blog is a place for me to share my views on the wiki spam problem, the email spam problem, and life in general.Mannihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17276960156837500656noreply@blogger.comBlogger46125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7107779.post-31536079439936905892007-05-19T12:10:00.000+02:002007-05-19T12:18:05.409+02:00http:BLMost of you probably already know. Let me say it again anyway:
Project Honeypot is now tracking comment spammers and (here's the really interesting part) offers a IP-based RBL that can be used to fight link spam. Simply check your visitors' IP addresses against the http:BL and send away any matching addresses.
You have to have an active honeypot on one of your sites to be able to participate, Mannihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17276960156837500656noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7107779.post-7247996011522861862007-05-19T11:48:00.001+02:002007-05-19T11:55:28.411+02:00How is blogspot.com doing?Another update, if you will. blogspot.com is notorious for its splogs.
The chongqed.org database currently lists 2101 splogs on blogspot.com. I hacked a little perl script that would query them all to see which ones now return a 404 (which unfortunately does not mean that they are no longer spamvertized).
Here are the results: 1082 of those 2101 splogs no longer exist.
That's not as bad as I Mannihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17276960156837500656noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7107779.post-32799774899634118132007-05-15T11:19:00.000+02:002007-07-12T10:45:24.042+02:00Update on .edu spam disasterHere's an update on the spam flood we've been seeing on .edu domains.
Although the rate of new spamvertized .edu domains has somewhat slowed down, we are still seeing new spam. Much, if not all, of it is sent through botnets, but the spamming characteristics differ a bit:
There's the moderate html spam which you can see on the spammy revisions of this wiki page. The spam is formatted in html Mannihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17276960156837500656noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7107779.post-88766123982493439652007-05-10T14:04:00.001+02:002007-05-10T14:06:15.986+02:00Spam flood on .edu domainsI don't remember exactly when it started, somewhen in late April, I guess. But
we are currently seeing a flood of wiki spam where the links all point to
.edu domains.
It seems to me like the spammer was specifically looking for a certain message
board software that is very popular in the .edu world. He then posted spammy
articles on those boards and then went on to spam the hell out of wikis, Mannihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17276960156837500656noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7107779.post-1168270960561666992007-01-08T16:41:00.000+01:002007-01-08T16:42:40.580+01:005 things you didn't know about me.
I got tagged. Who came up with this? I have no idea. I only know that calling this a meme surely is a misnomer.
I like the work of Richard Dawkins (who came up with the meme meme) and I've read most of his books. You are encouraged to read one of them too.
I'm a smoker with no intention to quit any time soon.
I don't hate Bill Gates. In fact, I've never even met him.
I am Mannihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17276960156837500656noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7107779.post-1160501497859225292006-10-10T19:29:00.000+02:002006-10-17T23:13:55.306+02:00About the state of blogger.com's publicityMannihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17276960156837500656noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7107779.post-1137233277892876942006-01-14T11:02:00.000+01:002006-01-14T11:07:57.893+01:00Update on weblogs.comAnother follow-up on a previous article
It's now bin three months, since VeriSign bought weblogs.com. That means that it's also been three months since they started their analysis on how to improve that service and how to get rid of blog spam and splogs.
Seems like three months haven't been quite enough. Checkout weblogs.com for yet another list of splogs. Nice going, VeriSign.Mannihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17276960156837500656noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7107779.post-1137232771008888822006-01-14T10:54:00.000+01:002006-01-14T11:00:41.663+01:00An easy way to find splogs
You can either view this post as a follow-up on my last post or you can take it as a real tip if you want to search for splogs.
All you have to do to find a certified list of splogs, is to use Google Blog Search and search for the term chongqed.
Yes, you will get some results from real, legitimate blogs, but the vast majority of the results will point to splogs, splogs, and splogs.
Mannihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17276960156837500656noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7107779.post-1130919297417341122005-11-02T09:02:00.000+01:002005-11-02T09:14:57.426+01:00Google Blog Search: already uselessGoogle Blog Search, it seems, is already useless. It went live in mid September, and it's already impossible to use it for for product-related searches.
I had the idea to see what bloggers are thinking about UEStudio and whether an upgrade from Ultra Edit would be worthwhile.
But using Google Blog Search to find anything useful out there proved to be completely useless. The results are full of,Mannihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17276960156837500656noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7107779.post-1128922964816167902005-10-10T07:27:00.000+02:002005-10-10T07:44:07.396+02:00VeriSign buys weblogs.com, wants to fight splogsVeriSign has bought weblogs.com. The strange thing about this is that their press releases actually talk about blog spam and splogs. VeriSign's corporate blog Infrablog, for instance, says:
As for additional services, there's a wide variety of services that we're looking at and working on right now, but will focus on one that we're committed to in the near term and believe is a compelling Mannihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17276960156837500656noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7107779.post-1127645984983371212005-09-25T12:50:00.000+02:002005-10-28T13:35:33.163+02:00Email spammer forging chongqed.org addiesI guess it had to happen sooner or later. Twenty minutes ago I received the first bounced spam message. Some MTA informed me that it had no user named 'mark' and that it was sorry it couldn't deliver the message.
Both the 'Return-path' and the 'From' fields were forged and pointed to a made-up chongqed.org email address. The spam is spamvertizing various geocities URLs. Those URLs look like Mannihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17276960156837500656noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7107779.post-1127375761930895232005-09-22T09:55:00.000+02:002005-09-25T13:04:06.796+02:00Slashdot WebbugsThis isn't really related to anything link-spammy. But I just came across something that is worth a new post. Finally.
I have a little script that acts as my browser's homepage. It gathers a couple of RSS feeds, formats them, and let's me see the description and the links. One of those RSS feed is, of course, the slashdot feed.
Fortunately, I do all the parsing of the feeds manually, not Mannihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17276960156837500656noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7107779.post-1110883149395019792005-03-15T11:16:00.000+01:002005-03-15T11:39:09.396+01:00A wiki engine you wouldn't want to useThe referrer string of a recent spammer of the chongqed.org wiki led me to the homepage of the "spinner wiki" engine.
I'm not linking to it since it already seems to be a GhostTown. But the URL is http://spinner-wiki.sourceforge.net/ if you want to have a look yourself.
Not only doesn't it seem to have any spam prevention mechanism (at least none that works), it also doesn't offer the Mannihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17276960156837500656noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7107779.post-1108479144862780532005-02-15T15:31:00.000+01:002005-03-09T17:42:33.786+01:00CAPTCHAs: Do they have to be inaccessible?
CAPTCHAs have become very popular among the blogger and even among the wiki crowd to prevent spamming by automated bot scripts. Wikipedia's article on CAPTCHAs is one of the few places where accessibility problems of the CAPTCHA system are discussed.
However, the only recommendation Wikipedia gives is to resort to audio as opposed to visual CAPTCHAs.
But there is a far better solution. You Mannihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17276960156837500656noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7107779.post-1106336506010386322005-01-21T20:37:00.000+01:002005-01-22T12:30:53.726+01:00The 2005 Spam ConferenceHere are some quick links all about this year's spam conference.
The thing you might be most interested in is the list of speaker with links to the webcasts (you will need realPlayer, sorry). The numbers in the first column tell you the time of the start of the talk in the current session, so that you are able to directly jump to any given talk.
Session 1Low BandwidthHigh Bandwith
00:Mannihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17276960156837500656noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7107779.post-1105365045635331432005-01-10T14:42:00.000+01:002005-01-10T14:50:45.636+01:00Strange happenings at Lee's wiki
Another post about Lee's poor, old wiki. After it was cleaned by the
WikiMinion for a couple of weeks, the infamous UseMod bug showed up again and the wiki couldn't be edited anymore. So it was quiet there recently. Very quiet.
But when I checked today to see whether it was still quiet, I was greeted by as MSIS 404 error message. As if that wasn't strange enough, the message was in Chinese.Mannihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17276960156837500656noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7107779.post-1102252050180753272004-12-01T14:05:00.000+01:002006-12-11T01:30:50.926+01:00Finally: Some UK spam
Because we finally have some spammers that are not from China, here are a couple
of Chongqing links that
Mr. Keegan from Norfolk
may find useful.
adipex
adipex online
adult dating
adult dating online
adult finder
adult friend
adult friend find
adult friend finder
adult friend finder coupon
adult personals
adult personals online
adult sex
adult sex toys
adult toy store
Mannihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17276960156837500656noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7107779.post-1101303138569082412004-11-24T14:17:00.000+01:002007-07-03T08:30:59.137+02:00Two reasons why indexing kept pages is a bad ideaIt is now common wisdom that wiki spammers are spamming wikis because they want to influence the results that search engines will return. That's why many wiki enignes now take care about the robots meta tag. That's why many wiki admins have hand-crafted robots.txt files, etc. If spam on wikis doesn't end up in a search engine, the reason for spamming is gone and wiki spamming should come to a Mannihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17276960156837500656noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7107779.post-1100706194782509252004-11-17T16:40:00.000+01:002004-11-17T16:43:14.783+01:00China's ITThe Register published a very interesting letter today: China's IT: an inside outsider's view.
It's a good and very scary read.
Mannihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17276960156837500656noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7107779.post-1100676630435566372004-11-17T08:28:00.000+01:002004-11-17T08:30:30.436+01:00Another wire mesh attackNot much to say here. The wire mesh spammer was back at the chongqed.org wiki and here are his keywords:
机票
苗木
电焊机
尿毒症
试验机
蜂窝煤机
股骨头坏死
对讲机
数据采集器
发电机
搅拌器
wire cloth
编程器
电源模块
油漆
驾校
拓展,拓展训练,拓展培训
高压清洗
继电器
electric hoist
会计师事务所
生物识别
折弯机
packing machinery
汽车音响
防静电
挤出机
商标代理
pocket bike
直流电源
光端机
内衣
平面设计
白血病
dsp
肿瘤
货架
汽车装饰
无纺布
北京租房信息
手机信号屏蔽器
橱柜
单片机
弹簧
油烟机
Mannihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17276960156837500656noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7107779.post-1098961906427435282004-10-28T13:01:00.000+02:002004-10-28T13:11:46.426+02:00Wire mesh spammer now completely out of his mindThe wire mesh spammer now seems to have completely lost his marbles.
Lee's wiki is currently under a heavy spam attack. This no longer qualifies as spamming, it seems more like a DOS attack at this point.
He has been spamming this wiki alone over 200 times today. And while I am typing, his bot keeps spamming and my bot keeps cleaning it.
I regret that this has escalated up to this point. And IMannihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17276960156837500656noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7107779.post-1098864838757526002004-10-27T09:44:00.000+02:002004-10-27T10:30:50.790+02:00Sad RecordI'm currently checking the recent changes on the Know-how Wiki because it is under a bad spam attack, while its members seem to be travelling or something.
When I took a look this morning, I was stunned. A single spammer using an IP address of the Chinese telecom, spammed this single wiki no less than 194 times within a couple of hours.
Are these people nuts? Do they really think they can get Mannihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17276960156837500656noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7107779.post-1097581893290950572004-10-12T13:32:00.000+02:002004-10-12T13:55:10.636+02:00The sad tale of a poor little wikiWhenever I try to find a spammed wiki using Google, one little wiki shows up in the results. It has been spammed by every known (and probably a couple of unknown) wiki spammer. I'm talking about Lee's wiki. It is run by Lee Daniel Crocker. Well, at least he installed it once.
Lee built a nice little wiki. He must have spent lots of time editing its pages. But recently it looks abandoned and it Mannihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17276960156837500656noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7107779.post-1097060490246693972004-10-06T13:55:00.000+02:002004-10-06T13:01:30.246+02:00Usenet fame!
chongqed.org finally made it to the usenet. Since I'm a big fan of the Usenet and think that it's the greatest thing since sliced bread, I'm especially happy about this. Thanks, Stacey!
Mannihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17276960156837500656noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7107779.post-1097062950827306062004-10-06T13:35:00.000+02:002004-10-06T13:42:30.826+02:00hukuki.netWe have another angry spammer to deal with at chongqed.org. He has been spamming, spamming, spamming for hukuki.net. Yet, he doesn't get it and he doesn't see why he is blacklisted on many wikis and why we have him in our database.
That's why he started to vandalize Wikipedia yesterday, posting links to chongqed.org and a couple of wikis.
Joe has more on that guy. Also check out the news Mannihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17276960156837500656noreply@blogger.com0