CSS Hack – a new form of Spam

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    jmmnewaov2 · Member ·

    Starting today, I am now seeing Spam Comments=, captured by Akismet, that have the following in brackets before the message

    MARKED AS SPAM BY ANTISPAM BEE/CSS HACK

    These comments are all identified as coming from Facebook is one thing and the other is that these spam comments are always attached to a photo from various of my blog posts.

    Since I have never received these until today – what does it mean, how to prevent or do I have simply unlink my wordpress blog from Facebook.

    The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)

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    timethief · Member ·

    Hi there,
    I have never heard of this so I tagged this thread for a Staff response. Please subscribe to it so you are notified when they respond.

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    rachelmcr · Member ·

    Hi there,

    I looked and I see that the text you mentioned is appearing at the beginning of the spam comment. It looks like that is just part of the spam comment’s text and is safe to ignore.

    Since Akismet caught that spam, you don’t need to do anything more — Akismet should continue marking that as spam so it doesn’t end up on your blog.

    Please let me know if you have any other questions about that!

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    jmmnewaov2 · Member ·

    Thank you –

    I do have a question – the original blog entries for many of these spam comments seem to be coming through via a picture attachment.

    Since the overall blog posts that the messages stem from are closed for comments, how is it that these spammers are able to send a comment.
    I am happy that Akismet is catching them but I am wondering if there’s not something to be done about sending in a useless comment via a picture.

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    rachelmcr · Member ·

    The comments on attachment pages are controlled separately from the comment settings on the posts they are attached to. If you’d like, you can close the comments on those image attachments — that will curb the spam comments there.

    To turn off those comments, you can head to the media library (under Media > Library in the site’s dashboard). Look for each image getting the spam comments, and edit that image’s details. On that image settings page, you can disable the image’s comments in the Discussion module.

    Please let me know if you have any other questions. :)

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    jmmnewaov2 · Member ·

    Thank you Rachel – I will look into that as a process – the only problem is that most of my posts have multiple images, and I have more than 700 posts – so my media library of images will be huge.

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