Hey LiveJournal, SUSPEND the bot accounts!
Jun. 5th, 2011 09:42 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
campylobacterThe 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 tomess 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?
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:
It's essentially taken LJ a year to finally delete some of these spambot accounts:
![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
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
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
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
The good thing about allowing anonymous comments is that I get to
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?
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:
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 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 zdzqjoebfbj cikgstad xfxigmzzons3 rotozmdejwg xmkpyatkqrx5 ntgftrbydo xmzrjzgmk9 zdwzpkkcg gkcseerfnp aritxwri7 adoulugePlus 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
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Date: 2011-06-09 11:01 am (UTC)(no subject)
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