Wow. Seeing is believing. After nearly three days, my catchall account in the Google Domain Appliancehas caught 67,930 messages; and has 3,185 messages in the Inbox. The amazing stat is at the bottom of the mailbox: “You are currently using 864 MB (42%) of your 2048 MB.” Looking through the messages, it looks like the [...]
Archive of entries posted on January 2007
Google Appliance Mail Update 1
I just logged into the catchall account for the domain I added to Google’s Web appliance. Spam to the old box in my office has slowed to a trickle (only 61 messages last hour, down from 1,237 for the same hour yesterday). In the Google Web Appliance, there are 2,596 spam messages caught, 12 missed [...]
Gmail
Back in May (see Gmail Collection) I detailed my results in sending a spam-only domain’s email to a new account at Gmail. I just logged into that Gmail account, there are 55,460 messages in the inbox, using 402MB. All but three messages are from January to May 2006 when I stopped forwarding mail. In the [...]
Have you upgraded Akismet lately?
In the process of cleaning up after the comment spam bomb yesterday, I noticed that my Akismet plugin is a little out of date. I was running 1.15, and the Akismet download page says they now have version 1.21. After downloading and installing, I see it is actually reported as version 1.81. I’ve asked Akismet [...]
Renaming wp-comments-post.php does not help
Yesterday afternoon I renamed the default comments post file from wp-comments-post.php since I was being hit hard by comment spammers. The new filename started getting hit softly about 10 hours later, although the old filename is still being hit. So unless you change the comment post filename regularly, it doesn’t do much good.
Automated Blocking of Comment Spammers
I wrote a quick shell script to collect the IP addresses of the comment spammers. And then I’m adding them to a DENY blocklist in apache. Should I use iptables via killroute? Time to do some learning.
The rate of oncoming spam attempts has slowed a bit, 233 attempts blocked by the renamed comment script; [...]
Comment Spammers Causing a DOS
Over the last few months the web/mail server running PlanetMike.com has locked up randomly, although usually at night. It always resulted in needing a hard reboot. My web host says it was simply running out of RAM. So I’ll be moving to an upgraded server shortly. Just now I noticed my site was coming up [...]
Usage Statistics for PlanetMike.com: 2006
Summary by Month
Month
Daily Avg
Monthly Totals
Hits
Files
Pages
Visits
Sites
KBytes
Visits
Pages
Files
Hits
Dec 2006
16,805
14,609
8,793
2,809
41,165
5,879,258
87,079
272,604
452,882
520,955
Nov 2006
16,775
14,736
8,641
2,645
44,589
5,877,010
79,357
259,244
442,109
503,253
Oct 2006
17,839
15,504
8,547
2,765
50,249
5,956,179
85,739
264,966
480,629
553,014
Sep 2006
20,088
17,669
8,739
2,824
51,081
6,898,215
84,723
262,192
530,087
602,666
Aug 2006
18,683
16,257
8,249
2,665
50,214
6,048,154
82,639
255,722
503,988
579,198
Jul 2006
17,164
14,533
9,284
3,076
39,058
5,408,891
95,364
287,813
450,526
532,090
Jun 2006
20,540
17,854
11,474
3,314
46,949
5,376,428
99,421
344,221
535,628
616,204
May 2006
23,530
21,759
13,058
3,215
54,262
6,999,769
99,682
404,803
674,532
729,437
Apr 2006
25,790
23,075
14,416
3,020
53,668
7,548,283
90,611
432,503
692,258
773,701
Mar 2006
24,213
21,573
11,828
3,353
58,434
7,417,974
103,954
366,689
668,782
750,619
Feb 2006
23,781
21,534
12,356
2,615
52,077
7,536,538
73,227
345,973
602,952
665,871
Jan 2006
17,481
15,464
7,539
2,199
48,956
5,788,934
68,184
233,711
479,399
541,929
Totals
76,735,633
1,049,980
3,730,441
6,513,772
7,368,937
Happy New Year! The First Penny Stock Spam of 2007
Wow, only 37 minutes into 2007, and the penny stock spam has already started.
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