[pmwiki-users] The latest spambot behavior

Tegan Dowling tmdowling at gmail.com
Sun Sep 10 10:03:30 CDT 2006


There are now two forms of frequent attack:

This one page:
 * Cookbook.MultiLanguage-Archive . . . September 10, 2006, at 02:59
AM by hydrocodone
 * Cookbook.MultiLanguage-Archive . . . September 10, 2006, at 07:48
AM by vicodin
 * Cookbook.MultiLanguage-Archive . . . September 10, 2006, at 07:48
AM by payday loans
 * Cookbook.MultiLanguage-Archive . . . September 10, 2006, at 07:51
AM by free slots
I just placed all the link-terms on the blocklist page and deleted the
page; I don't know if there was any pre-spam content.

And then there's a handful of different pages hit by one bot that
gives a "normal" first name and a subject line of "Unknown" (This is
the charming, complimentary bot).

It's the same few pages, over and over - would it make sense to
edit-protect them?  I see Pico did for PITS00016.




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