INCREASED SPAM ATTACKS
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My blog is getting hundreds of spam attacks over the last few days.
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Sorry about the trouble, and thanks for reporting the issue. Spam comments are certainly annoying. The cause can be a variety of things that are hard to troubleshoot like a pingback to your post appearing on other blogs or a spike in traffic from a search term.
If a lot of the spam comments have a common string of text, I suggest adding that string to your blacklist:
http://en.support.wordpress.com/settings/discussion-settings/#comment-blacklist
You can use the comment author’s name, IP address, web site, as well as the comment itself. Please make sure the word is not something contained in non-spam comments. For example, if you enter “press” as a blacklisted word, “WordPress” will match.
Also, please mark those comments as spam instead of just deleting. Our Akismet anti-spam engine tries to learn from a pattern of the comments that are marked as spam.
For more information about dealing with unwanted comments, visit:
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