campylobacter | Hey LiveJournal, SUSPEND the bot accounts!

The good thing about having an Open Journal is the Google signal boost my posts get -- especially fanfic.

The good thing about allowing anonymous comments is that I get to ~~mess with trolls~~ talk to folk who don't have an LJ.

The bad thing about an Open Journal is that spambots parasitize my SERP placement.

The bad thing about allowing anonymous comments is comment spam. Spammers' latest tactic is using the LJ email notification system to get around the "suspicious comment" screening; they post any random text (regardless of what language it's in) and sneak in a link to their spammy website that does NOT show up on your LJ because there's no anchor text, but DOES show up in your email.

They assume I'm gonna click it? SERIOUSLY? WTF? Do they get pay-per-click impressions? Or does merely visiting their spam site install malware on your computer?

Michael Shanks, plaid shirt, stank-eye sideways glance, caption ARR YOU FUCKING KIDDING ME?

Here's the really sinister part: the spambot inserts an invisible image (1-pixel transparent GIF named "dot") inside the link; it's what LJ uses sitewide to track stats. The bots are hoping that hotlinking this LJ image will circumvent the Suspicious Comment screening. For the HTML nerds, here's the markup:

screenshot of cursor over userhead or icon

screenshot of cursor over userhead or icon

It's essentially taken LJ a year to finally delete some of these spambot accounts:

belannaa

cesspacco

liiclgvd

nnbpjwsfmad1

omgitskylexd

xoruspar

But these spambot accounts are still active:

samm_on

derpiontisuko

cevuleer

celimood (I asked my F-List to report this thing a month ago, and it's still spamming! It even left a comment to my post. It's up to 251 spam comments across LJ so far. GET ON THIS, LiveJournal.)

wupospot

cooleywac

pomcroylufib

screenshot, ban user everywhere command

I don't know, man. Is LJ letting these bot accounts stay undeleted so that they can inform us of the benefits of counterfeit erectile dysfunction medication? WTF LiveJournal? SpamHaus is gonna blacklist you again.

PS: Here are more spam accounts from the Spamhaus blacklist that LJ still HAS NOT DELETED. This batch is all about "f!lthy wh0res f*cking cow d!cks". Um, cows are female KTHXBAI.

iwzmcsbfsyw

egyozgqetxb

tayogtyjfb

sdckgygeof2

gtymzgsa2

grabnkkjsy2

ywepcdgsf12

gebakitzwdy0

cwiymtpny59

sztkbfnfbk
screenshot, report a bot command

zdzqjoebfbj

cikgstad

xfxigmzzons3

rotozmdejwg

xmkpyatkqrx5

ntgftrbydo

xmzrjzgmk9

zdwzpkkcg

gkcseerfnp

aritxwri7

adouluge

Plus another 100 I'm not bothering to copy over here. :P

PPS:
Quick link to report a bot:
http://www.livejournal.com/abuse/bots.bml

Quick link to ban a user:
http://www.livejournal.com/manage/banusers.bml

Flat | Top-Level Comments Only

I must not be cool enough. I don't get spam or trolls (except for spilleta's super psycho troll friend).

I do have to say I LOVE that pic and the caption.

Trollypants must be afraid of me, because it's only left maybe 4 or 5 meek little anon comments, and hasn't poked its trollbutt here since its

endspam account got deleted. I kinda miss it. :( I've worked hard to get my LJ highly visible; using Tumblr tags & auto-Tweets with cross-posting to Dreamwidth has really boosted my Google rank. I've also noticed that spambots love to spam entries that have 10+ comments, especially if at least half of them are from different users.

And yup, Shanks's face in that convention photo is pretty freakin' epic. :D

Funny you should post this now as this morning I had one of these show up in my journal.

Ack! That sucks. I guess spambots are active & happy while LJ coders are busy programming another game instead of suspending spam accounts.

(I added screenshots to this entry to illustrate the hover-menu that makes banning them from all your LJ accounts and comms quick & easy.)

Or does merely visiting their spam site install malware on your computer? Yes. I hope you have a Java script blocker running.

I have images disabled in my Gmail, but now that you mention it, seems like only Firefox so far has a NoScript add-on for the browser. I surf with Firefox only 25% of the time.

I Googled & found NotScripts for Chrome:
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/odjhifogjcknibkahlpidmdajjpkkcfn

I'm getting these anon comments periodically, on old posts mostly. I just don't get the whole spam thing - do they really get enough access to people's computers to suck out their passwords and drain their bank accounts? Don't russians have anything better to do? Yo, dudes, go watch Stargate - more fun!!

LOL

I wish watching Stargate paid money!

Unfortunately, there are people dumb enough to trust anything a popup message tells them to do:
http://j-walkblog.com/images/too_many_toolbars.jpg

Hoot! How many toolbars and search engines can a person use? wonder if they all give the same results?

LOL I spotted 2 Google search boxes before my eyes went cross-eyed from looking for more redundant widgets. Even if they gave different results, how would you even be able to tell with a 1-inch sliver of actual website-viewing window?

I just deleted Russian spambot spew from a flocked entry. What is THAT about? How did it get in there and manage that, and also, I'm screening comments and only allowing commenting from friends, so how the heck did that one show up as if I had no security at all?

WHAT

Next time, keep it screened; don't delete it. Did you capture an IP? This site [ http://whatismyipaddress.com/ip-lookup ] compares IPs against a known blacklist. LJ admins would probably like to know about that.

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