Comment Spam
Unbelievable, very unbelievable. Comment spam in just 5 hours. I installed another Wordpress on my webhost for testing purposes. After about 5 hours running, the that weblog is spammed by Online Poker thing. Sigh~
This makes me started to think that Cpanel’s Fantastico isn’t secure enough.
Why do I say that? I’ve used Cpanel with Fantastico hosting twice (this is my 2nd time). And both Wordpress installed using Fantastico got spammed. This main weblog which is installed manually using FTP uploads is OK. Spam Free. I don’t even use any Wp-Blacklist plugin. But when it comes to installation using Fantastico, the Online Poker spam comes.
After some consideration, I decided to remove some feature from my new template:
- Weblog Subsciption
- Email Entry to Friend
People might use this 2 feature to spam other people. That’s bad.
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November 26th, 2004 at 11:07 am
Getting spam from Fantastico?? this is a new one…
November 26th, 2004 at 11:26 am
maybe its just coincidence…..
i cant be sure. But what’s weird is the spambot crawls into my “wordpress test blog” (installed using Fantastico installation) and it doesnt crawls into my mainblog (using FTP, package downloaded from wordpress.org).
November 26th, 2004 at 5:39 pm
haha, i think its the security measure of fantastico which might be failing you…
Spam bots normally searches the internet for certain strings that could lead them to spamming but if these strings are not found, it won’t do anything…
i think you can just use manual installation rather than fantastico…i never liked it anyway….
October 22nd, 2009 at 8:52 pm
And there are some folks out there who are, frankly, bearing false witness. ,