Comments on: My unorthodox CAPTCHA blocked thousands of spam comments every week http://www.xaprb.com/blog/2007/05/28/my-unorthodox-captcha-blocked-thousands-of-spam-comments-every-week/ Stay curious! Thu, 09 Feb 2012 20:41:20 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Lousodrome » Blog Archive » Wordpress et les captcha http://www.xaprb.com/blog/2007/05/28/my-unorthodox-captcha-blocked-thousands-of-spam-comments-every-week/#comment-15412 Lousodrome » Blog Archive » Wordpress et les captcha Tue, 18 Nov 2008 23:13:34 +0000 http://www.xaprb.com/blog/2007/05/28/my-unorthodox-captcha-blocked-thousands-of-spam-comments-every-week/#comment-15412 [...] finir, voici un article en anglais où l’auteur semble avoir constaté lui aussi une grande efficacité pour un bout de code écrit rapidement. Posted in Ergonomie, Test, Vu sur le web | Leave a [...] [...] finir, voici un article en anglais où l’auteur semble avoir constaté lui aussi une grande efficacité pour un bout de code écrit rapidement. Posted in Ergonomie, Test, Vu sur le web | Leave a [...]

]]> By: themattreid http://www.xaprb.com/blog/2007/05/28/my-unorthodox-captcha-blocked-thousands-of-spam-comments-every-week/#comment-15234 themattreid Wed, 15 Oct 2008 05:12:17 +0000 http://www.xaprb.com/blog/2007/05/28/my-unorthodox-captcha-blocked-thousands-of-spam-comments-every-week/#comment-15234 Agreed. I wrote a custom image verification system for an image gallery site I coded about a year ago. It displayed a picture that was stored in MySQL (yes, blob in mysql but they were small images and more secure than sniffing images from a directory), the user just typed out the name of the picture and verified humanity. Captcha != ftw Agreed. I wrote a custom image verification system for an image gallery site I coded about a year ago. It displayed a picture that was stored in MySQL (yes, blob in mysql but they were small images and more secure than sniffing images from a directory), the user just typed out the name of the picture and verified humanity.

Captcha != ftw

]]> By: MM http://www.xaprb.com/blog/2007/05/28/my-unorthodox-captcha-blocked-thousands-of-spam-comments-every-week/#comment-10806 MM Mon, 04 Jun 2007 19:53:07 +0000 http://www.xaprb.com/blog/2007/05/28/my-unorthodox-captcha-blocked-thousands-of-spam-comments-every-week/#comment-10806 i get most of my spam blocked, not only the comments on my blog but also in my email. i usually find, especially for the e mail spam, that as long as you dont enter your e mail or your information in mailing lists ( i got my explination at http://www.advertisingonlinesite.com/MailingListBrokers.html and so far its held up pretty well) the ammount of spam you recieve declines significantly. the only exceotion is my work e mail account. recently a virus infiltrated the system and spam is sent from the e mail address of many of my co workers. a big pain. i get most of my spam blocked, not only the comments on my blog but also in my email.

i usually find, especially for the e mail spam, that as long as you dont enter your e mail or your information in mailing lists ( i got my explination at http://www.advertisingonlinesite.com/MailingListBrokers.html and so far its held up pretty well) the ammount of spam you recieve declines significantly.

the only exceotion is my work e mail account. recently a virus infiltrated the system and spam is sent from the e mail address of many of my co workers. a big pain.

]]> By: Jay Pipes http://www.xaprb.com/blog/2007/05/28/my-unorthodox-captcha-blocked-thousands-of-spam-comments-every-week/#comment-9608 Jay Pipes Tue, 29 May 2007 19:41:24 +0000 http://www.xaprb.com/blog/2007/05/28/my-unorthodox-captcha-blocked-thousands-of-spam-comments-every-week/#comment-9608 I got more than 250K (yes, 250,000) spam comments in my blog in one month and subsequently turned off comments altogether, which is, according to some, even worse than not consistently blogging! ;) I use Serendipity, and an old version at that. Just trying to find the time to upgrade/enhance it is so very hard! But, I'm not surprised at all that your CAPTCHA caught more spam than a published plugin... the spammers will always target the published ones first! :) -Jay I got more than 250K (yes, 250,000) spam comments in my blog in one month and subsequently turned off comments altogether, which is, according to some, even worse than not consistently blogging! ;) I use Serendipity, and an old version at that. Just trying to find the time to upgrade/enhance it is so very hard! But, I’m not surprised at all that your CAPTCHA caught more spam than a published plugin… the spammers will always target the published ones first! :)

-Jay

]]> By: sapphirecat http://www.xaprb.com/blog/2007/05/28/my-unorthodox-captcha-blocked-thousands-of-spam-comments-every-week/#comment-9544 sapphirecat Tue, 29 May 2007 12:18:32 +0000 http://www.xaprb.com/blog/2007/05/28/my-unorthodox-captcha-blocked-thousands-of-spam-comments-every-week/#comment-9544 Interesting - I am currently blocking 100% of spam on my blog with a negative captcha. I removed the email address field from my comment form, and I reject any comment with an email address present. I only used to see a few per week, so my spam-load was nothing like yours, but it was still enough to be frustrating to me. I don't expect this to last, though. I set up a captcha on an old UBBThreads forum for someone; prior to doing so, I added a hidden field with a random value, and about 50% of the spambots there correctly passed the hidden field. Interesting – I am currently blocking 100% of spam on my blog with a negative captcha. I removed the email address field from my comment form, and I reject any comment with an email address present. I only used to see a few per week, so my spam-load was nothing like yours, but it was still enough to be frustrating to me.

I don’t expect this to last, though. I set up a captcha on an old UBBThreads forum for someone; prior to doing so, I added a hidden field with a random value, and about 50% of the spambots there correctly passed the hidden field.

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