Knockwood
07-17-2006, 06:33 PM
I spent a lot of last night and today trying to clean up the debris from two simultaneous spam attacks.
Last night we got a series of spams where someone would create a new page and populate it with a series of what look like search engine queries... which means you had a lot of sexual stuff, but also things like 'pictures of orcas' and song-lyrics queries. Strange. There were a few linked-to but unwritten pages, but he mainly made pages of the form "MediaWiki talk: (something)", which at least were easy to spot. Anyway, I junked as many of them as I found, but there might be a few lurking around.
Today we got some of that, but also a repeat of the random-numbers spams we've been getting. I know there are still a few of those floating around.
Please check your pages for any of this junk, and delete it if you see it.
This has also prompted a change in our dealing-with-spammers-personally policy. In the past, as you may recall, we would ask you to kill any spammers you meet, preferably messily. With this latest series of spams, that policy has been modified: please injure or confine them, then call us (Shannon and myself), so that we may travel there to watch him die. Alternatively, high-res video of his messy death is encouraged, with a laugh track if possible.
Yr ob'd'ent s'rv'nt (yeah right),
Knockwood
Last night we got a series of spams where someone would create a new page and populate it with a series of what look like search engine queries... which means you had a lot of sexual stuff, but also things like 'pictures of orcas' and song-lyrics queries. Strange. There were a few linked-to but unwritten pages, but he mainly made pages of the form "MediaWiki talk: (something)", which at least were easy to spot. Anyway, I junked as many of them as I found, but there might be a few lurking around.
Today we got some of that, but also a repeat of the random-numbers spams we've been getting. I know there are still a few of those floating around.
Please check your pages for any of this junk, and delete it if you see it.
This has also prompted a change in our dealing-with-spammers-personally policy. In the past, as you may recall, we would ask you to kill any spammers you meet, preferably messily. With this latest series of spams, that policy has been modified: please injure or confine them, then call us (Shannon and myself), so that we may travel there to watch him die. Alternatively, high-res video of his messy death is encouraged, with a laugh track if possible.
Yr ob'd'ent s'rv'nt (yeah right),
Knockwood