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fruitfly · Member · Aug 16, 2006 at 8:59 pm
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Okay..this confuzzles me. I’m not new to reading blogs, however I am new to writing them. So, there are a bazzillion questions I bump into that makes me scratch my head. Most of the time I can figure them out, however this one I can’t.

Somebody came onto my blog here and added a COMMENT. And this is what was left there:

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cfxdnsvtm | gtnxaiojfc.com | IP: 127.0.0.1

fxxdnoac

umnalkabm rgfzvfrnm lxjlfwu

Aug 13, 3:14 AM — [ Edit | Delete | Unapprove | Approve | Spam | View Post ]
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Anybody know what that is?

It looks like… well, I don’t know what to make of it. Even the IP address has been spoofed.

My thanks!

The Fruitfly!
engtech · Member · Aug 16, 2006 at 9:36 pm
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I’m not sure what it is either, but I’ve been marking it as spam.

My theory is that they are using it either to pass encrypted messages, test out spam generation software, or they’re generating specific messages per blogs to find the blogs that let spammy comments through for some infernal purpose.

Or maybe it’s the government doing it.
cornell · Member · Aug 16, 2006 at 9:44 pm
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Nope, you’re right, it’s spam! Just mark it as spam and let the software do the rest for you. :)

Strange IP though. Not one I’d normally expect to see in a comment!
engtech · Member · Aug 16, 2006 at 9:53 pm
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127.0.0.1 usually indicates the same machine you are running from.
sunburntkamel · Member · Aug 16, 2006 at 9:57 pm
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akismet learns from spam patterns, so this is an attempt to throw off the patterns, in hopes that akismet will make too many false positives, and people will turn it off (allowing in the real spam)
engtech · Member · Aug 16, 2006 at 10:06 pm
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thanks sunburntka, nice to know what they’re up to.
fruitfly · Member · Aug 16, 2006 at 10:19 pm
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<chuckling>

Thanks y’all! I’m going with engtech… “It’s Bush listening in on our blogs…”

Appreciated… <snickering> I’ll do that Askimet thingie on it.
drmike · Member · Aug 17, 2006 at 10:42 pm
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Either that or those Sixapart gremlins yet again. :)
nosysnoop · Member · Aug 17, 2006 at 10:49 pm
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Some porn things are getting through because it’s a trackback or a pingback. Sneaky bastards!
blumoon · Member · Aug 17, 2006 at 11:05 pm
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I am getting the same ones this week. The links always lead to porn. Never click on the link. I think these people are running their own servers, and any hacker can change their IP easily, to make it look like they come from anywhere. I am getting these in my in mail box too from time to time.
drmike · Member · Aug 17, 2006 at 11:08 pm
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I get a lot of porn links on a couple of harry potter posts that i did many moon ago…
timethief · Member · Aug 17, 2006 at 11:11 pm
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Death to SPAMMERS! [she shouted] OOPS! excuse me. ;)
nosysnoop · Member · Aug 17, 2006 at 11:13 pm
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Alot of them get through on an old Justin Timberlake post. Hmmm.
sunburntkamel · Member · Aug 18, 2006 at 2:14 am
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mmmm, harry potter porn….

:)
drmike · Member · Aug 18, 2006 at 1:40 pm
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Could always visit Nosy’s site and look at Brittany Spears naked and preggy.

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