Re: Witango-Talk: Curiuos

I've been getting the same thing for the last 2 months on one of our sites - all the urls are porn. Looks like they are just trying to get their URL onto the db if you ask me. Shane Pearlman 831.345.7033 Shane & Peter, Inc. www.shaneandpeter.com Sent via iPhone On Feb 28, 2008, at 7:44 AM,

Re: Witango-Talk: Curiuos

On 02/28/08 10:57 AM, "Shane Pearlman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in whole or in part: > I've been getting the same thing for the last 2 months on one of our sites - > all the urls are porn. Looks like they are just trying to get their URL onto > the db if you ask me. Ditto on some of our sites. I

Re: Witango-Talk: Curiuos

Hi Folks, I've seen pointless stuff like this myself in the past. I actually wonder if the objective of the spammer is just to get the URL's into the web statistics data of the website so that some lone Admin or owner for the site might on the off-chance click on one of the addresses to figure

Re: Witango-Talk: Curiuos

Sounds like we need a Witango TCF to implement the Akismet API. Bill On Feb 28, 2008, at 9:10 AM, Scott Cadillac wrote: Hi Folks, I've seen pointless stuff like this myself in the past. I actually wonder if the objective of the spammer is just to get the URL's into the web statistics dat

Re: Witango-Talk: Curiuos

I'm having the same issue--being pounded by misbehaving bot that substitutes URL's in place of arg values. Any ideas on how to isolate & block these bots? USER_AGENT looks pretty normal so I can't block on that basis. Thanks. Mikal Anderson - Original Message - From: Fogelson, S

RE: Witango-Talk: Curiuos

HI, Just thought I would resurrect this thread. A few developers mentioned they are seeing the same thing. I was looking at a Witango log and discovered the following. 18/03/2008 22:22:04 [EMAIL PROTECTED]://www.insanechicken.com//phpMyAdmin/libraries/ludeme/gakacag/

RE: Witango-Talk: Curiuos

I looked around a bit and discovered some legacy code assigning userreference, That's the culprit. Steve _ From: Fogelson, Steve [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, March 18, 2008 10:41 PM To: witango-talk@witango.com Subject: RE: Witango-Talk: Curiuos HI,

RE: Witango-Talk: Curiuos

Steve, There have been quite a few url attacks recently. They automated the attacks by setting up http://.. as a url parameter, and they came about every hour under different IP addresses too. If your url uses the userreferencekey and they set userreferencekey=http://. you will see t