i though i was the only getting sick of spammers. i have notice that their has been a significant increase in the number of spams i am receiving on my blog. what can you really do to stop them. they are so many and it will take quite a while to do anything about it. 

There is many things you can do. First of all, lets learn something from that person.

I took some of his domains and did a ip lookup. Then I checked what other sites are hosted on this ip. I found some shady web hosting / domain company, owned by the same PO Box. This seems to be the main one, since all the nameservers point to that one. I did a little browsing and I found an interesting url, so that I have a suspicion about the idendity of the person (based on some other forums). Its an amazing mix of sites that I dug out from the few urls he dropped here. I cannot be sure which ones are really his, but there are certain pointers (correlating registrar information on the domains).

Now about the action:

So far the obnoxious persion has used the same IP all the time. So I can either block him (guess I didn't do it right), or redirect (more fun).

I can also disallow links in the forum or maybe use nofollow, but that wouldn't hurt him much, since those were affiliate redirect sites.

With all the information gathered about his other enterprises, I could also go to Google and fill out a spam report including all his other websites (I got the logfiles to back up my claims).

I did some more digging and I am sure I found the address of the person, through some peoplesearch and narrowing it down based on his PO Box and a bunch of other tactics. Not sure what to do with that information yet.

Well, I don't want to fight about this. I emailed him before, but he did it again even after I asked him to stop this.

I guess the best action would be to contact his affiliate partners and get his account suspended. I am sure those companies don't want to be associated with this kind of aggressive spam.

My site gets hit by tons of referral spam. I guess I should implement some .htaccess filters, but I was too lazy. I wonder though why the bots come back, since I am not even clicking the referrals.

The best reaction for me is to ignore the crap and delete it.

I am having a very hard time with these dirty spammers and most of the time its the same sites being submitted. i thought about dedicating a site to name and shame spammers( but i decided against doing something like this as it would consume alot of time and energy). i was also thinking of these via .htaccess but i have got the time to do it as yet. over 6 month i have receive over 28 000 spam on my wordpress blog. the spam plugin is really good though so they were automatically blocked.

Wordpress = spammers heaven

There are far too many scripts available for Wordpress and far too many exploits. I am going to have to change my backup strategy too, to make sure this stuff doesn't happen anymore.

TT

Actually it is a really good blogging software, its the best on the market , from my point of view at least. no blogging software is free from spammers, the good thing about wordpress is that you have the filters already added so, you cant automatically deleted them or you review it and delete by yourself.

Well, we have filters running too and they are pretty good. Most bots don't make it past the filters. But there is no filter that prevents a person from signing up and submitting their crap manually.

However wordpress is targetted by spammers more than most other blogging tools.

Its really easy to get around those things though.

check out my solution here:

http://www.phpbb.com/phpBB/viewtopic.php?t=479924

I wouldn't touch phpBB with a pair of gloves. Just look at that ugly url. brrr

It is probably the most spammed BB out there.

I would probably prefer a something a little less intrusive. A preg_replace function that substitutes urls with [url filtered for new users] but letting the rest of the post through seems more appropriate to me. I don't like to alienate people. Even better would be to simply remove the hyperlink but let the url through as text.

its my solution and it does exactly what i want. people wont use a reg-ex solution anyway because they dont understand what happens within this frikking syntax :) 

We have installed a new backup solution. The database and important files is now synchronized with a dedicated backup mirror computer. This computer downloads backups every 6 hours. We will probably increase the backup speed to hourly. The connection has been secured with strong encryption (2048 bit RSA) so no passwords are revealed.

Our data and the security of our user base is our strongest concern. 

The mirror runs on Debian Linux and has been running nicely during the last week without any downtime.

TT