Tag Archives: spam

Last Results from Spam Testing

Posted on December 1, 2012 by Jesse Zylstra

November 23rd at 6:13PM: We shut the spam testing site down. Since December 24th, 2011, there were a total of: 325,008 posts in 246,957 topics by 291,210 spammers. If you are interested in receiving a copy of the MySQL database … Continue reading →

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How to discern convincing spam from real comments

Posted on April 5, 2012 by Jesse Zylstra

SPAM is becoming more and more convincing. After years of dealing with it, it never occurred to me that to new site owners it can be very difficult to tell convincing spam from real messages. Computers are becoming better at … Continue reading →

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Spam Research: Experiment Continued on SMF Forum

Posted on March 11, 2012 by Jesse Zylstra

A continuation of the Spambot Experiment with an SMF forum, read about the first experiment here: https://zylblog.com/2011/12/spambot-experiment/ The forums were completely wiped out on the 24th of December (all registered members were deleted, all posts removed, etc). A few options … Continue reading →

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Stop all spam to your website, blog, or forum

Posted on August 12, 2011 by Jesse Zylstra

The Internet is a great way to share your information with others, whether it be useful information related to computers or health, or the less-useful specialized information like training poodles (of which, I have no fear in offending anyone who … Continue reading →

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What is fhefeefeffe.com ?

Posted on January 20, 2010 by Jesse Zylstra

Keep getting fhefeefeffe.com posted in spam on your website? So do I. And I don’t have the slightest idea why — moreover, after Googling “fhefeefeffe.com”, I only come up with two websites (as of 01/20/2010)… this tells me that my … Continue reading →

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Spam Bots, what they waste

Posted on December 29, 2008 by Jesse Zylstra

Talk about going green. You know, eco-friendly people tend to target the everyday system administrator for not pushing their companies to install “green” computers. (Though, compared to the 50’s, 60’s, 70’s, 80’s, and 90’s, computers really are green), why not … Continue reading →

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