Trackback/Pingback Spam

  • nexxai

    (@nexxai)


    21 years, 1 month ago

    Starting today, I’ve noticed an influx of TrackBack/PingBack (aka TPBack) spam, so I set out in search of an answer.

    I checked out the TPBack Moderation plugins on mtdewvirus.com and even disabled TPBack altogether in the options, however about 5 minutes later, I still got another TPBack spam and it didn’t go to the moderation queue.

    I’ve also implemented a captcha system for comments, which up until has worked quite nicely.

    Does anyone have any suggestions as to what I could do to curb this annoyance?

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  • NuclearMoose

    (@nuclearmoose)

    21 years, 1 month ago

    Well, some fixes/suggestions are version-dependent, so it would be helpful to know what version of WP you are running.

    Moderator James Huff

    (@macmanx)

    21 years, 1 month ago

    Nexxai, read “I have disabled trackbacks, but trackbacks continue to be posted.” here: http://codex.wordpress.org/Combating_Comment_Spam#Q_.26_A

    Thread Starter nexxai

    (@nexxai)

    21 years, 1 month ago

    NuclearMoose: Dammit, I even had that ready. It’s version 1.2.1

    macmanx: I will remove those Allow Pings, however, I’m wondering if there is a way to script that, as there are about 100 posts that probably have it set.

    thomasso

    (@thomasso)

    21 years, 1 month ago

    That’s what I did to get rid of the track back SPAM, erased the wp-backtrack.php file… 🙁 Nothing is secret anymore…. *sheesh* even though it was not getting through to the blog itself, it was having out of control SPAM on my E-mail! I’m starting to hate poker real back!

    Thank macrmanx for that link. I’m still running with 1.2.1 until I get some more time to do the major upgrade.

    Thread Starter nexxai

    (@nexxai)

    21 years, 1 month ago

    Can anyone write a quick SQL query to run through the post DB and clear the “Allow Ping?” flag?

    Thread Starter nexxai

    (@nexxai)

    21 years, 1 month ago

    Just for those who are looking for the same thing:

    UPDATE wp_posts SET ping_status=”closed”;

    Will change all of your previous posts to disallow Pingbacks, to hamper the latest round of TPBack spam you might be receiving.

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