Blog Spam
I got a whole bunch of these in my Apache log:
65.75.190.110 – - [07/Oct/2004:12:13:24 -0700] “POST /mt/mt-comments.cgi?entry_id=61__ HTTP/1.1″ 200 2513 “http://www.php-soft.com” “”
Since I am using a validator plugin for comments, none of the seventy-one attempts were successful, but I added this to my system, anyway:
iptables -A INPUT –source 65.75.190.110 -j DROP
iptables -A INPUT –source 69.50.191.27 -j DROP
That’s the internet equivalent of “F* Off!”
I did some reading of what php-soft has for sell. It looks like they specialize in selling software for spamming blogs, comments, and guestbooks. If the registrar info is to believed, they are based in the Ukraine or Russia.
PHP-SOFT.COM is a sleazy outfit and they probably torture kittens and puppies.
Addendum
It seems they really want to access my server:
pkts bytes target prot opt in out source destination
108 6480 DROP all — * * 65.75.190.110 0.0.0.0/0
November 28th, 2004 at 12:50 pm
Those same wankers appeared in my logs as well. Rather than use iptables or using a deny in htacess I used mod_rewrite to redirect them to phildo.org/BLOGSPAMMER.HTML
I know the bot doesn’t actually *see* it, but it makes me feel better.
changint the default location of the archives and naming mt-comments.cgi to smething else has knowed blogspam to zero so far.
November 28th, 2004 at 12:44 pm
Blogspammers are pure SCUM!
I recently went over stats and noticed referrals from php-soft.com and AdminShop.com. They both make apps to assist blogspammers in their lame SEO schemes. I got tired of just denying their IP’s so I used mod_rewrite and htaccess to send referrers to t…