I started to get a lot of spam with this new WordPress shit in recent weeks. The spam comes from 195.225.178.14 or 195.225.178.15. It’s based in Panama, so no luck alerting the authorities. Those pricks are probably too busy cooking up the next civil war anyway.
These IPs (mind the apostrophe) and others like them used to trickle down one or two spams every few days, but last week they went berserk and poured down dozens. So, me wise beard, it’s time we did something about it. And did we did, yarr.
According to agentn on Charchaa (thank you!) this particular spammer is using a certain range of IPs, one that can be beautifuckilly represented by the 195.225.176.0/22 IP range. What we do with it is enter the range in your IP Deny Manager, or, if you don’t have one, like me, enter a magic line into your website’s .htaccess file:
deny from 195.225.176.0/22
Buh-bye now… buh-bye! (spammer!)
Comments 3
no love for akismet ?
Posted 16 Jan 2009 at 9:16 am ¶No. I have free hosting with draconic database limitations, so I’m not happy with plugins that require a large (and growing) database. Had Akismet externalized its database to their own servers, providing it as a service, I might have kept the plugin around.
Posted 17 Jan 2009 at 12:22 pm ¶I think akismet automatically deletes spam every X days
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