I got up this morning and found over 90 bits of suspected comment spam waiting for my review.
Lots of kinky sex terms and bizarre links, many wrapped up in innocuous messages.
“I have just found your site and it is very useful. I will visit again.”
Right. I bet you will.
After slogging through the process of deleting the spam messages one by one, I downloaded and installed SpamFree, a WordPress plug-in. It’s already zapping new spam messages as they arrive. Much easier than my previous manual review process. That worked when there were ten a day, but with 90 overnight, too much.
Hopefully this won’t block any legitimate comments.
Please let me know if you notice new problems.
Thanks!
Musubi. (checking your spam filter).
Its worse than ever. I have a friend whose email account has been hijacked and he thinks nothing is wrong, he doesn’t get the emails, everyone else does. So now he is in the spam file. Guess what, the spam stopped!
I awoke to the same… looks like WordPress had a “FAIL”.
I installed SpamFree last night, and awoke this morning, for the first time in a year, to no spam from Russians wanting me to link to them. Of course, how many legitimate comments got cut?
Akismet on WordPress gets all of my spam.