Well I had my first experience with comment SPAM today. Starting sometime after 9 am this morning, and continuing until around 10:55 or so, I got hit with some comment SPAM. They seemed to arrive at the rate of about one every two minutes. I received around 55 in total, all from the same place. Deleting them was a huge pain in the ass, so if this happens again, I think I may be re-evaluating permissions of anonymous users.
I typically only get 3-6 at a time… though I did receive a few bombardments on the weekend. It should be easy to get rid of those comments if they’re somewhat similar though Kev. Just write a query or two to get rid of them directly from the database.
This time it was only 15 pieces. It was a different web site this time, but the same subject. That makes three times so far that I’ve been hit. The second time was only like 3 or 4 pieces. If this keeps up, then I’m definitely modifying anonymous users’ privileges…
18 more this time on the 22nd of Jan. I guess I can’t complain too much, it’s been a month since the last time.
These 18 weren’t even entertaining like the other have been so far. Oh well, they are gone now.
That’s it. Annonymous users are getting a change of priviledges… :)