SPAM ALLOVER

[pixeldose]

hi

i have a problem. i am running pixelpost ver1.4.3. the last weeks i got so much spam, it is awfull. BUT actually i can´t install the newest version of pixelpost cause my server doesn´t have all required versions (my database is older then required). so, it is possible to close the commentfunctionality? i deleted the "comment_"- templatefile and changed it for an info-file. but somwhow i am getting spam further ?

does anybody knows what i could do?

thanks a lot!

marco :)

[Connie]

Marco,

these people do not enter the comment in your form manually, they just construct a URL with the data for the comment
and by that you have no chance

that's why we did 1.5 ...

you could try to use something like referer karma...

http://unknowngenius.com/blog/wordpress/ref-karma/

install it like it is described and add

<?php
include_once ("./path_to_directory_where_refkarma_is_installed/rspamcontrol/referrer-karma.php");
check_referrer();

to your main index.php at the top of the file

I did this when my photoblog was overflooded by referer-spam and it stopped it

good luck!

[pixeldose]

hej, tahnk you very much. just installed. hopefully it will work. thanks a lot!

[pixeldose]

mmmh, somehow it is not working this well cause there are spammers ones more. but it bit less then the last time ;)

[raminia]

you can turn off comments just edit the code in index.php

find the section reads
// ################################################## ########################################//
// SAVE COMMENT
// ################################################## ########################################//
if($_GET['x'] == "save_comment")
delete it to the section reads

// ################################################## ########################################//
// EMAIL NOTE ON COMMENTS
// ################################################## ########################################//

then stop deleting.

[Joe[y]]

alternatively rather than stopping comments you could try out the akismet spam addon (just search the forum) - so far it's proved very successful with 1.5