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Title: Site break-in? - No, just Pingback, but still spam
Post by: Pilens on May 02, 2013, 11:21: Yesterday I found an annoying spam comment on my EULA page. Well, I thought, that probably got there much earlier when I was fooling around and comments were activated.

Today I found this very similar comment and now I am sure comments have been deactivated. So how on earth did the spammers get it in there and how can I block it? Did anyone else notice something like this?
Title: Re: Site break-in?
Post by: Kerioak~Christine on May 02, 2013, 11:52: I kept meaning to look up and see what pingbacks were and if I should allow them - it looks like they are a way of someone linking their site with yours via blogs etc.

Maybe we need to block pingbacks and trackbacks as well as some comments. On my other sites I only block comments when i get a lot of spam on one page, for some reason spammers all seem to use one which can be useful at times
Title: Re: Site break-in?
Post by: Pilens on May 02, 2013, 12:18: Dummy me! I thought "pingback" is a funny name for spam site. Turns out it is actually a wordpress function ;D

This explains it: http://www.mcbuzz.com/2011/what-is-a-pingback-search-marketing-101/ (http://www.mcbuzz.com/2011/what-is-a-pingback-search-marketing-101/)

I found pingbacks turned off generally but some pages still had it explicitly turned on, which overrules the general setting. I will keep it turned off because I don't want to spam-police my site daily.
Title: Re: Site break-in? - No, just Pingback, but still spam
Post by: Amanda_K on May 02, 2013, 12:48: You can turn on the ability to approve or moderate comments before they show publicly on your site. (Check under settings, Reading I think.) It might help. Also when we all start making lots of sales...do yourself a favor and get Askimet! It is absolutely worth it to not have to worry about Spam.
Title: Re: Site break-in? - No, just Pingback, but still spam
Post by: cathyslife on May 02, 2013, 14:34: I have been noticing the checkbox to disallow pingbacks as i have been uploading images and i have always turned them off. At some point, i would like to have a blog page that people can comment on, but only that one page. I am hoping i will be able to do that.

I already have akismet but havent activated it since i have been turning everything off. Think i will go ahead and activate it tonight in case i have missed something.
Title: Re: Site break-in? - No, just Pingback, but still spam
Post by: cathyslife on May 02, 2013, 16:23: Quote from: cclapper on May 02, 2013, 14:34
I have been noticing the checkbox to disallow pingbacks as i have been uploading images and i have always turned them off. At some point, i would like to have a blog page that people can comment on, but only that one page. I am hoping i will be able to do that.

I already have akismet but havent activated it since i have been turning everything off. Think i will go ahead and activate it tonight in case i have missed something.

Actually, I just checked and I had already activated Akismet, so hopefully I won't see any of that kind of spam.