The Links Widget takes the name from whatever category your links are assigned to. So go to your Link section, and edit the default category from “Blogroll” to something else like “Links”. That will change the name of your widget section to “Links”.
Same here. They were catching 99% of spam for a year now and then just this past 36 hours I’ve gotten like 30-40 comment spams. Either something changed with Askimet or someone has built a better spammer tool.
