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Silence, at last
Monday, August 04 2008 @ 20:35 CEST Contributed by: Dirk
No, I don't mean the silence on this blog - that's just because I'm busy and the spammers are mostly boring ("Viagra"? Trackback spam? You've got to be kidding ...) One spammer, however, who has been hammering this site continuously for the last 8 months has finally fallen silent. Over the last two weeks, I've noticed that his spam attempts only came from a handful of IP addresses. And so I decided to try and shut them down. A big thanks goes to Rob at Blue Connex / BlueSquare Data who has been very helpful here. And then the spammer's last IP address, belonging to giga-hosting.biz, has fallen silent more than 24 hours ago (I didn't get a response from them, though). We'll see how long it lasts ...
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Its great to see that this has been resolved for the most part on your end. I know that kicking spammers off of networks is sometime daunting and difficult, but if we all continue to share and work together, we can make it more difficult for the spammers.

A great service that I work with to help this even more is call McAfee SiteAdvisor at http://www.siteadvisor.com. Give it a try and sign up to be a reporter.

Michael
Spacequad AntiSpam Services

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Ironmax

Authored by: ironmax on Wednesday, August 06 2008 @ 13:04 CEST

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It was nice while it lasted ...

He's back, it seems. I've got some spam from another IP address belonging to giga-Hosting.biz.

Interestingly enough, the spam that links to the trojans spread via Obama Barack's website uses almost exactly the same format. They also share some non-obvious characteristics, but don't seem to come from the same IP addresses. Same spambot? Need to look into this ...

Authored by: Dirk on Saturday, August 09 2008 @ 09:15 CEST

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