spam comments by fake user…

  • Hi there,

    I’m receiving spam comments from a “user” who is not registered although this should be prohibited by my settings!
    This “user” shows up with different user names at admin/comments and none of these names shows up at admin/users!

    Thanks to Akismet I don’t have these spam comments (which propagate a malicious site!) shown at my blog (IT-online).

    How can a not registered user override the settings???

    Since this “user” is not registered there is no email either…

    Any ideas???

    Thanks in advance…

    schoe

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  • and youve made sure its not trackacks or pings you are seeing?

    That’s the thing with spammers, the really good ones find ways to bypass firewalls and anti spam products.

    When looking in your admin panel, see if all the comments come from the same IP address. If so, you can ban that person’s IP from ever accessing your site.

    Here’s a YouTube video showing you how to do it through .htaccess.

    You can also try a plugin called Tan Tan Noodles which does real well at defending against spam comments.

    Thread Starter schoe

    (@schoe)

    Thanks for your ideas!

    whooami I must admit that trackacks and pings are enabled at my site and I’m afraid I haven’t quite understood how it works really. Does the admin panel tell me if it’s a trackack or a ping?

    WpBlogHost thank you I’ll have a look there in a minute…

    schoe

    Thread Starter schoe

    (@schoe)

    The YouTube video is a brilliant instruction changing the .htaccess file … I hope it will help!

    Great site this 15 Most Important WordPress Plugins To Help You Fight Spam.

    I thought Akismet would do … but now I think I’ll add one or the other plugin from that list!

    Thanks to everybody

    schoe

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