Mike Chambers

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Spam Attacks? Here is my blacklist

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I noticed that a lot of weblogs in the community are getting spammed today. I went through the same attack about a week ago (1200 spams in 24 hours). I use MT-Blacklist to protect against spam and it works pretty well.

So, in order to help everyone getting spammed today, I am publishing my weblog’s black list. If you are using MT Blacklist, you can add them to your system in the MT Blacklist admin.

This list will automatically be updated as I add new URLs to it. Also, it is possible that there are some false positives in the list. If so, just let me know about them, and I will check them out.

One note, the current version of MT Blacklist does not work with the latest version of Movable Type (2.66). A new version of MT Blacklist should be out soon that fixes the issues.

Written by mikechambers

January 19th, 2004 at 9:29 pm

Posted in Weblog

16 Responses to 'Spam Attacks? Here is my blacklist'

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  1. JesterXL

    19 Jan 04 at 9:50 pm

  2. Spammed? My Blacklist Too

    I have added some custom URL’s in my time, so following the lead of Mike Chambers, I’m linking to my blacklist as well. Lock and Load….

  3. Spammed? My Blacklist Too

    I have added some custom URL’s in my time, so following the lead of Mike Chambers, I’m linking to my blacklist as well. Lock and Load….

  4. Scott Barnes

    19 Jan 04 at 11:26 pm

  5. Dear Mike (and Scott),

    I noticed that Mario Klingermann’s site, quasimondo-dot-com (I was prevented from sending this comment in because I typed it literally!), is on your lists. This has to be a false positive! Mario is a sharp guy and he posts a lot of good info.

    -jonathan

    Jonathan Kaye

    19 Jan 04 at 11:55 pm

  6. Nice site!

    (hee hee)

    Christian

  7. re : quasimondo

    good catch. I removed it from the list.

    mike chambers

    mesh@macromedia.com

    mike chambers

    20 Jan 04 at 12:58 am

  8. Mike, I noticed you have a lot of entries that could more easily be handled by a simple regex pattern (e.g., all the black foxes stuff). If you use a regex, you’re going to catch future spam as well as current spam.

    I give an example of blocking subdomains here:

    http://www.corfield.org/blog/past/2004_01.html#000269

    Sean Corfield

    20 Jan 04 at 1:31 am

  9. p.s. my blacklist is here (with a bunch of subdomain regex blockers):

    http://www.corfield.org/blacklist.txt

    Sean Corfield

    20 Jan 04 at 1:33 am

  10. Sean,

    Thanks. Yeah, it could be vastly simplified with regex. The URLs were added automatically though by MT Blacklist, so I don’t really spend too much time on it.

    mike c

    mike chambers

    20 Jan 04 at 1:54 am

  11. Hey! I’m also in some of the blacklists.

    Maybe my blog is not too good, but…

    Please, check it. The url is

    design-nation-dot-net

    Cesar Tardaguila

    20 Jan 04 at 8:28 am

  12. >design-nation-dot-net

    good catch. I removed it from the list.

    mike chambers

    mesh@macromedia.com

    mike chambers

    20 Jan 04 at 1:07 pm

  13. Mike:
    I think that the

    d d.i t

    in your list should be handled with a regex patern.

    If I try something like:

    “and then I add + it…”

    I’ll be banned.

    aSH

    20 Jan 04 at 1:57 pm

  14. Thanks, Mike!

    Cesar Tardaguila

    20 Jan 04 at 5:30 pm

  15. Yeeeahd, it’s csool

    Numit

    21 Feb 04 at 8:20 am

  16. astalavistsa

    Bter

    25 Feb 04 at 6:01 am

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