All Posts Tagged With: "false positive"

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Guide To Reducing WordPress Trackback Spam And Comment Spam

Over the last 3 months I’ve had to deal with an ever growing spam problem on my WordPress blog. At its worst I was getting over 250 spams a minute, which not only meant I was struggling to process the spam, but my poor old server was struggling under the load. Although Spam [...]

 28Feb2007 | Everton | 10 comments | Continued
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How To Reduce WordPress Trackback Spam

This year I’ve made various changes to my blog to reduce comment spam (read more here and here) but finding an effective way to reduce Trackback Spam had eluded me. Adding SK2 meant that it was rare for any spam to get through, but I was still getting around one hundred Trackback Spams a [...]

 26Feb2007 | Everton | 5 comments | Continued
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I Need Help With Spam Karma

Spam Karma is doing a great job of stopping any spam getting onto my blog. However, I still have to clean out 100s of spam messages a day. I know I could just leave them, but I like to double-check for false positives.
Is there anyway I could reduce the number of spams to [...]

 5Feb2007 | Everton | 0 comments | Continued
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Added Two New Plugins To Increase WordPress Spam Protection

Although the WordPress plugin Akismet does a good job of stopping spam, it does occasionally generate false positives, which are hard to correct because of the sheer number of spam messages that would have to be scanned to find mistakes.
I’ve decided that it’s time to add a couple more layers of defence so that I’m [...]

 14Dec2006 | Everton | 6 comments | Continued