HOLY SHEET - thanks for that.

Yeah, this is certainly not going to help with database issues and asp lockups if it's doing massive volume large entry submissions in just a few seconds. Maybe this is the issue the site gets (although I am sceptical of that).

Indeed, just going for a random comment has found one full of pornographic links to other sites - tens of thousands of them.

It appears they are in a numerical "order" so to speak, so I hit the adverts nearly everytime i search now Indeed, some appear to have trolled just the other day (15th), others about a month ago - eonlinecasino has probabily added comments to every other news item at one point :/



Edited by - Chips on 5/18/2006 10:35:08 AM

At least its easy to clean up.

It also explains the site bogging down. It went on for months.

Edited by - Finalday on 5/18/2006 11:20:47 AM

well yeah... those comments fasted the crashs of the LR site

*gravedigging* in old news does help from time to time ^^

Yer right, there are TONS of these, about one in every ten (numerically speaking) has between 1 comment, or hundreds of comments for adverts.

I am still checking all the pornographic links to ensure that this was really a spam bot, and not useful links that may be lost forever in rapid deletion if I were too quick to hit a button. As it is, to be honest, I think the best idea is not to do it manually, but to simply do it via the database, as I am sure there are thousands of comments on the pages/some pages - and just running a nice big query to stuff them all, and then lock the comments would be best.

Course, that requires either Stinger, BP, Eraser or Arcon to do it.

I got these attacking my homepage for a while, exactly same style of spam messages. No idea what triggers them, as they only went after one or two of my blog entries, but still...

Thanks for the heads up on all that spam.
Esky and I cleaned it up last night.

Still there BP, just find a comments page and change the id number from whatever it is to something like...

3202
3102
3112
2882
2892
2982

Keep on moving around these types of numbers, although it's hit and miss at times (as they come under 7 sometimes, not just 2).

This isn't a minor issue with a few pages, but with what looks like a majority of pages. No chance of going through it all by hand, would be best off with just wiping comments from the database that are older than a certain value, and then locking the ones that drop off the news page anyways.

Chips send me an email and I set you up with an admin password to delete comments...and lock the comment section if necessary.

One of the big reasons why they target sites is to get higher search engine rankings by stealing links from other sites. One way to deal with it is to add rel="nofollow" tags to links automatically so search bots will not read those links or go to sites with that tag. Automating it in the software will take some significant grave digging I would imagine...

Probabily louva, and the worst thing is that it's not a law as such, so programmed spam bots wouldn't have to follow any such instructions either - hence why most software uses the image verification method instead (including my own site - I don't program it, someone else did in php - very nifty).

BP - already got that password, but exams til the end of this week comming (just sat one) so I don't spend much time around tbh