Comments on: Trackback Spam

by: cindy

Tue, 01 Feb 2005 11:24:24 -0500

the trackback spammer is the same as the comment spammer. you can also block them in your htaccess using:

RewriteCond %{HTTP:VIA} ^.+pinappleproxy
RewriteRule .* - [L,F]

Tue, 01 Feb 2005 11:30:47 -0500

Yeah, just this time, it got through my filters.

Problem was, I had added a bunch of this to wp-comments-post.php but not in trackback.php (just removed it to try the tar pit plugin):

if ( strpos($_POST[’url’], ‘texas-holdem’) )
{
header("HTTP/1.0 404 Not Found");
die();
}

if ( strpos($_POST[’url’], ‘poker’) )
{
header("HTTP/1.0 404 Not Found");
die();
}

if ( strpos($_POST[’url’], ’sindyhalliday.com’) )
{
header("HTTP/1.0 404 Not Found");
die();
}

if ( strpos($_POST[’url’], ‘payday-loan-today.com’) )
{
header("HTTP/1.0 404 Not Found");
die();
}

if ( strpos($_POST[’url’], ‘dish-network’) )
{
header("HTTP/1.0 404 Not Found");
die();
}

That looks nice, I was hoping to block VIA proxy. If this doesn’t get most of it, I’ll try that.

Tue, 01 Feb 2005 11:31:45 -0500

And yes, I could have done it in one if(), but I was lazy .

Tue, 01 Feb 2005 12:14:46 -0500

90? Thats’ nothing. When isvery1337 was relatively established it got bullets of 3000 every couple of days…