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Barrages of spam...
2007-06-02
Just so you know, we've been under attack by spambots for the past week or so. This doesn't mean that they haven't been visiting us previously; they've always been there. But now they're at a heavier level than before, seemingly intentionally trying to cripple the sites they infest. That leads me to believe their purpose isn't commercial.

This evening's most recent poor performance was thanks to www.sportjp.com, Shepherd Blalock of Chagrin Falls, Ohio, prop., offering fine web pages like http://www.sportjp.com/sports-betting-lines-las-vegas-odds.html. The overload comes from mulple hits on the front page within a few seconds from Shepherd's bots -- each of them with a cloaked IP -- which drives the number of connections over the max and eats up available memory.

Prior to Shepherd today we had identical appearances by bettingme.com (Daphine Mosher, of Forence, SC, prop., with pages like http://www.bettingme.com/online-sports-betting-line-horseracing.html), homewis.com(Josie Chester, of Fairview Park, OH, with http://www.homewis.com/do-home-insurance-claims-increase-rates.html, for example), pharmaopps.com (Lane Lamere, of St. Augustine, FL), rxonlinecenter.net (RegistrarAds, Inc, of Vancouver, WA), and insurancekon.com (at least Nia Weller of Kissimmee, FL, is honest about it.

Presumably these upstanding citizens sign up with some sort of service which promotes their fine products by getting them positions in other people's logs and somehow gives them better Google rankings. Or something. I remember reading something once upon a time on the subject, but I don't remember the details. I don't care. I'm just busy trying to design a filter to kill them all.
Posted by:Fred

#14  Smith & Wesson, Etc. I'll operate the filter for you. Did you see they finaly busted the "Spam King" maybe this shit will taper off.
Posted by: Redneck Jim   2007-06-02 09:50  

#13   I'm just busy trying to design a filter to kill them all.

I suggest you take a look at the offerings of Glock, Heshler & Koch, Browning, Colt...
Posted by: JFM   2007-06-02 05:20  

#12  I have absolutely no clue how all this works, but how about a front page that requires a little manual work before it allows an IP address to eat up much bandwidth without getting blocked for some period of time? Sorta like the guy at the club who peeps out the little window in the door to make sure only respectable clients can enter.

Now if we could just forward all this spam noise to whichever congressmen don't vote to make cruel and unusual punishment mandatory for spammers . . . . ;-)
Posted by: gorb   2007-06-02 04:23  

#11  That's what I get for using synonyms. I couldn't remember whether "scum" has one "um" or two.

Never get old. You mind starts going.
Posted by: Fred   2007-06-02 00:38  

#10  "these upstanding citizens"

Fred, you misspelled "vermin."

Spammers are lower than whale sh*t. >:-(
Posted by: Barbara Skolaut   2007-06-02 00:15  

#9  "My apologies in advance when things don't work right..."

Be like the Romanoffs, Fred: Never apologize, never explain. :-D

(And you certainly don't owe any explanations to us! We know the slowness and crap isn't your fault.)
Posted by: Barbara Skolaut   2007-06-02 21:38  

#8  They've developed disease resistant American Chestnuts, Shipman. Let's plant one near the mighty live oak, and in half a century or so Fred will have something more traditional to hammer under. ;-)
Posted by: trailing wife   2007-06-02 20:11  

#7  I sees Fred working under the 150 year old Live Oakus in the town square.

Hit 'em with the damn mighty hammer blackmsitherMan!
Posted by: Shipman   2007-06-02 17:42  

#6  If they were, I'd be driving to South Carolina, then swinging north and west to Ohio.
Posted by: Fred   2007-06-02 15:37  

#5  "Upstanding citizens", *snort*

It's a shame active countermeasures are unlawful, ain't it?
Posted by: mojo   2007-06-02 15:34  

#4  "Rantburg...Our Pervious now has 80% more Im!"
Posted by: Seafarious   2007-06-02 14:18  

#3  thanks, Fred
Posted by: Frank G   2007-06-02 13:55  

#2  I'll be working under the hood most of the weekend to try and make us a little less pervious. My apologies in advance when things don't work right...
Posted by: Fred   2007-06-02 13:01  

#1  hmm
16-06-2006 - sportjp.com became a deleted domain.
04-06-2007 - bettingme.com became a deleted domain.
etc...
Posted by: 3dc   2007-06-02 12:02  

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