This is my old site that I'm keeping up for historical purposes and is no longer updated. You probably want to see my new site.

February 10, 2005

Guestbook spammers strike!

Site at 01:03:32 AM MT (link) | I don't think I mentioned it recently, but my guestbook is back. Sign it!

So, the other day I noticed that I had been spammed, and that there were several spam entries.

Spam (unfortunely) isn't something you can not expect. I'm assuming that some bot program or script did this. Apparently this script was smart enough to figure out my self-written, custom-coded guestbook script and do it's dirty work. While targeting a mass-deployed guestbook script doesn't seem to much out of the range of possibilities, writing a smarter, more versatile script made to spam guestbooks like mine is just doesn't seem efficient. Either spammers are getting smarter or desperate (or both).

Oh well. There is now a "I am not a spammer" checkbox on the preview page that you must check for your entry to be posted. Let's see the spammers "smart" scripts get around that (and honestly, I bet they will).