VARbuzz being pounded by spam

7 Responses

1. Andrew Kantor, Blogmaster

   16|Jul|2009 1

   Fixed. Turns out that the spam filter (Akismet) was deactivated in the upgrade to WordPress 2.81. All better now.

2. Bill Burruss III

   16|Jul|2009 2

   My webmaster said that I should not updrade to WordPress 2.81. I do not know why. Is anyone getting any negative information about the uprade, or had problems?

3. Sweth Chandramouli

   16|Jul|2009 3

   Bill — There are reports that a lot of plugins have issues w/ 2.8.1, but if you upgrade your plugins first, you’ll probably be fine.

4. Charles McDonald

   18|Jul|2009 4

   It seems that this problem has escalated over the last few weeks with many sites…
   I guess more people have more time on their hands :(

5. Real Deal Property

   21|Jul|2009 5

   Well I use Akismet for my comment spam problem, it certainly does the job well.

6. Doug Francis

   21|Jul|2009 6

   When I started to get spammed after the upgrade, I added a captcha plugin that seemed to halt the spam… glad you are back up and running!

7. Cary NC Real Estate

   22|Jul|2009 7

   I agree that spam seems to be going up, but I don’t think it is because people have more time on their hands. Rather, spamming technology is just getting more efficient. Still, some of the spam comments they create are really laughable.