Strange rise in comments
In the last few days I've been receiving a huge amount of comments on my blog site, sounds great right? Well no it's quite the opposite.
The seem to originate from the same url address " quest bars" and fake email address.
Now I'm not a newbie here but if anyone can help suggest a plugin to catch these annoying comments that would be great.
Regards
Gary
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If it is spam, Lady May's got the best advice for you. I took her suggestion and added the plugin she advised and I've had no more spam problem since.
Ed
check out my blog Do you need a spam blocker? , it'll explain everything that you'll need ;)
looks like spam I did have antispam bee and it worked well however recently I changed to WP anti spam shield purely for the fact that you do not need captcha code to leave a comment seems to be working very well
I'm curious Katie. I have seen this about Antispam Bee and captcha before. I use it but commenters are not asked to enter one. Were you using a separate captcha plugin with it?
Thank for your help,
Tom
I use the Antispam Bee plugin to protect my site and it does the job. Spam comments go into a folder where you can review them to make sure they actually are spam then delete them.
I find it very reliable in that what it marks as spam really is spam and what it lets through are not.
Hope that helps,
Tom
I've never heard of such a thing. I know comments are a good thing but that sounds very strange. Like you said.
I know I had 35 comments in an hour all from the above. I thought I would email one and see what happened and the server came back with the email address does not exist.
I am learning there is such a thing as computer generated "bots" or something like that. I am wondering if someone is spamming you...
I think you could be right and I have used some of the comments on my site but removed the url.
I hope that helps. I know Kyle and Carson built in special anti-spamming into the software but I think something is getting through. That really stinks! Good luck with this.
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No more spam since deactivating akismet and installing the new anti spam as advised!! Thank you everyone for your help.