Hey, Sunny! Kiss my American Ass, you punk bitch!
I own you! Ha!
Okay, here's the deal, for those of you who have missed out.
There is a spammer bot, spamming for a number of poker sites to increase their Google rank by a tried and true method of Search Engine Optimization (SEO). That method is to post referrer URLs on blogs that have open comments allowed.
Since most of us in the blogging community would like to have anyone who wants to able to post on our blogs, this kind of thing is particularly pernicious.
Well, I've done a couple of things.
First, I've logged all of the entries from sunny_at_moonlightshadow.us and her affiliated poker companies.
Second, I've extracted all of the IP addresses and performed a reverse DNS lookup on each one. I'm in the process of cross referencing that with a list of service providers for those blocks of addresses. Once that is complete I'll send a series of emails to the service providers who provide IP transit to those boxes and ask that their customers be informed - it's likely that sunny has illegally compromised their boxes.
Third, I've installed an anti-spam tool that is - so far - keeping sunny at bay.
There are a few more pieces to this story, but until I know who is with me and who is not I'm holding off.
Cheers!
- Nathan
Every morning our morning announcer ends with Cheerio mates. I will meiss this as I move on to my next internship next week!
It is nice to have you back, Nae. And nice to check the list and know there is a good chance that if there is an update, there may actually be something posted there.
Nae, what a funny thing! After making the last comment on your blog, I went to my blog and and all the the comments (five most recent, there may be more) were from Sunny@moonlight.whoever.
Should I remove them or would you like to see them first?
Howdy.
I stumbled across this entry while googling for ways to deal with Sunny, since she's beena recurring nuisance on my blog. (65 messages yesterday.) In the past I've just deleted her comments, but my host wanted to see the IP numbers, so I've been saving today's batch - 16 and counting.
If it helps, I can send you the IP numbers or forward the message notifications or whatever. If you want them, drop me a line at tsadkiel_at_yahoo.com.
Over the last month or so, I know I've deleted about 1000 spam messages from Miz Sunny and a host of others. Unfortunatly, once I cleaned the last batch out and turned off the comments on my blog I deleted all the IP's I had saved (aaargh lol)
It's been a pain in my backside let me tell you lol
I have just recently discovered the wonders of Sunny and seem to have received an abundance of comments from her. I've saved all the IP addresses; would you like my list as well?
Perhaps you should write on the whole thing more often
You made some Good points there. I did a search on the topic and found most people will agree.
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