Lately, I've been getting more spam to this blog than I'm posting myself. Although I have a spam blocker, quite a bit gets through and the spam is getting quite a bit more ingenius.

Last week, I had a comment post that had what definitely looked like a personal blog page. What gave it away was that the URL was also being used on a couple of other comments. I checked at the spam site I use and sure enough others had reported it and it had made the filter. I guess they planned on leaving it as a regular site for a while and then switching it over to some ad page with a gazillion popups.

Also goofy was one yesterday that I went to, just to verify it wasn't realy. This one fired off about 4 popups. I have the Google toolbar blocking such things, so I'm a bit confused as to what happened. Because I didn't have IE running before I clicked, I think what happened was the page and scripts came up faster than the toolbar did. That was quite irritating.

Anyway, if the problem continues to get much worse I may have to turn off comments completely until I have a chance to upgrade to MT 3.0. I'm looking forward to doing the upgrade. However, I'm not looking forward to the time it will take, even if it's fairly quick.

Posted by Shane on July 22, 2004 6:54 AM | Permalink