Comments on: Sustained Wiki Spam Attack http://www.darcynorman.net/2006/03/10/sustained-wiki-spam-attack/ just a lowly edtech geek, mumble mumble university of calgary Sun, 21 Mar 2010 17:18:11 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: D'Arcy http://www.darcynorman.net/2006/03/10/sustained-wiki-spam-attack/#comment-81546 D'Arcy Wed, 31 Dec 1969 17:00:00 +0000 1407109149#comment-81546 Meredith - yeah. It's a really sticky one. Bad Behavior isn't blocking it, and the Wiki Spam Blacklist is being cut through like butter. wtf? All I could do was disable new account creation, but that sucks as a longer term solution. They were hitting LOTS of pages in our wiki, so just locking a single (or handful of) page(s) wouldn't have worked here. Meredith – yeah. It’s a really sticky one. Bad Behavior isn’t blocking it, and the Wiki Spam Blacklist is being cut through like butter. wtf? All I could do was disable new account creation, but that sucks as a longer term solution. They were hitting LOTS of pages in our wiki, so just locking a single (or handful of) page(s) wouldn’t have worked here.

]]> By: Meredith http://www.darcynorman.net/2006/03/10/sustained-wiki-spam-attack/#comment-81547 Meredith Wed, 31 Dec 1969 17:00:00 +0000 1407109149#comment-81547 I should have known that if I was having a problem you and Paul would be too. ;) The same thing has been happening to me since around the 10th as well. For some reason they've only been hitting my front page, which I decided to protect, and that stopped them more or less. But the minute I tried today (four days later) to unprotect that page, the spam came back again. If you and Paul figure something out, please let me know. :) I should have known that if I was having a problem you and Paul would be too. ;) The same thing has been happening to me since around the 10th as well. For some reason they’ve only been hitting my front page, which I decided to protect, and that stopped them more or less. But the minute I tried today (four days later) to unprotect that page, the spam came back again. If you and Paul figure something out, please let me know. :)

]]> By: D'Arcy http://www.darcynorman.net/2006/03/10/sustained-wiki-spam-attack/#comment-81548 D'Arcy Wed, 31 Dec 1969 17:00:00 +0000 1407109149#comment-81548 Bill - good point. But I've long ago given up any hope/faith in the "report spam/abuse" services for ISPs and domain hosts... Bill – good point. But I’ve long ago given up any hope/faith in the “report spam/abuse” services for ISPs and domain hosts…

]]> By: Leigh Blackall http://www.darcynorman.net/2006/03/10/sustained-wiki-spam-attack/#comment-81549 Leigh Blackall Wed, 31 Dec 1969 17:00:00 +0000 1407109149#comment-81549 Hi D. What do you think about the idea that its better for educational organisations to use free web services instead of setting up and maintaining their own servers and apps? Especially orgs with even less resources than yours to deal with spam and stuff? Hi D.
What do you think about the idea that its better for educational organisations to use free web services instead of setting up and maintaining their own servers and apps? Especially orgs with even less resources than yours to deal with spam and stuff?

]]> By: D'Arcy http://www.darcynorman.net/2006/03/10/sustained-wiki-spam-attack/#comment-81550 D'Arcy Wed, 31 Dec 1969 17:00:00 +0000 1407109149#comment-81550 Leigh - I love the idea of just telling folks to use the Wikipedia (or whatever) but they seem to be intimidated by the "global" resources. If it's local, it feels more accessible. But, yeah - move it all into wikipedia.org for the betterment of all... Leigh – I love the idea of just telling folks to use the Wikipedia (or whatever) but they seem to be intimidated by the “global” resources. If it’s local, it feels more accessible. But, yeah – move it all into wikipedia.org for the betterment of all…

]]> By: Bill Kempthorne http://www.darcynorman.net/2006/03/10/sustained-wiki-spam-attack/#comment-81551 Bill Kempthorne Wed, 31 Dec 1969 17:00:00 +0000 1407109149#comment-81551 On the what to do front, The URLs in the spam all seem to point to pages at maximum-search.net. I was to assume that is who is making money out of this. maximum-search.net is an anonymously registered domain by ESTDOMAINS that has a nice 'report abuse' page at http://estdomains.com/abuse/report_abuse.php It even has a drop down choice for WIKI SPAM. I'd be looking to see who elses problem you might be able to make this - My $0.02 - Bill On the what to do front, The URLs in the spam all seem to point to pages at maximum-search.net. I was to assume that is who is making money out of this.

maximum-search.net is an anonymously registered domain by ESTDOMAINS that has a nice ‘report abuse’ page at
http://estdomains.com/abuse/report_abuse.php

It even has a drop down choice for WIKI SPAM.

I’d be looking to see who elses problem you might be able to make this –

My $0.02 – Bill

]]> By: Michael Hampton http://www.darcynorman.net/2006/03/10/sustained-wiki-spam-attack/#comment-81552 Michael Hampton Wed, 31 Dec 1969 17:00:00 +0000 1407109149#comment-81552 Send me the Bad Behavior logs for these spammers! Send me the Bad Behavior logs for these spammers!

]]> By: D'Arcy http://www.darcynorman.net/2006/03/10/sustained-wiki-spam-attack/#comment-81553 D'Arcy Wed, 31 Dec 1969 17:00:00 +0000 1407109149#comment-81553 Michael, I just cracked open my database to get the logs, and noticed there is no bad_behavior_log table in my mediawiki database. On opening the bad-behavior-mediawiki.php file, it looks like it's coded for WordPress - not sure if that's true or not. Perhaps it's not finding the database/table and just dying... Michael, I just cracked open my database to get the logs, and noticed there is no bad_behavior_log table in my mediawiki database. On opening the bad-behavior-mediawiki.php file, it looks like it’s coded for WordPress – not sure if that’s true or not. Perhaps it’s not finding the database/table and just dying…

]]> By: Rick http://www.darcynorman.net/2006/03/10/sustained-wiki-spam-attack/#comment-81554 Rick Wed, 31 Dec 1969 17:00:00 +0000 1407109149#comment-81554 Sorry, I tried to find the correct format for posting urls, obviously it was wrong! Sorry, I tried to find the correct format for posting urls, obviously it was wrong!

]]> By: D'Arcy http://www.darcynorman.net/2006/03/10/sustained-wiki-spam-attack/#comment-81555 D'Arcy Wed, 31 Dec 1969 17:00:00 +0000 1407109149#comment-81555 No worries. It's just a subset of plain old HTML. I'll tweak the comments when I get a chance. No worries. It’s just a subset of plain old HTML. I’ll tweak the comments when I get a chance.

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