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Questions tagged [spam]

Unwanted activity/content that is usually of a promotional nature.

Spam is unwanted activity/content that is usually of a promotional nature. Examples of spam include unsolicited emails and comments that simply advertise a service.

Since lots of spam is by bots, a common way to stop spam is to add a CAPTCHA to your site, or hide your email address.

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baffling comment spam

I've been seeing some odd comment spam on one of my sites. Odd because there are no links posted. Just, "Wow, that's a really celevr way of thinking about it!" or similar. Note the typo. The messages change but they almost always seem to have a…
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Comment spammer IP list?

Is there a public list anywhere on the web of IP addresses that have been identified as comment spammers?
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Best way to protect yourself against "almost manual" spam

(Maybe this is not the correct stack exchange site, please redirect me if so). We have a Trac instance here and are getting the following spam text (I replaced dots and dashes in the URLs by etc. so this post does not help the spammers). As you…
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Page blocked by antivirus

My client reports that [this page][1] I designed is blocked by his antivirus (Norton) : . The rest of the website is not blocked. Do you have any idea why Norton would block this page ? The report says "web attack: mass injection website 5".
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general questions about link spam

A CMS-based site I manage is suffering from a small but ominously growing number of almost certainly bot-emplaced, invisible spam links placed in registered-user-only shoutboxes and user forums. "Link Spam", yes? Until recently, I've kept my eyes on…
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Someone setup a clone of our company website - why?

We recently discovered a clone of our website and I've found several mentions of other people having had the same problem here, here, and here. We're taking the necessary steps to have the site taken down so I'm just curious as to what these people…
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What type of spam is this?

This is a trivial question but I want to understand how spam works. On my site I get a contact us form submitted every night between 2:30am to 3:00am. There is not message in the form and I know it is a spam. But my question is what type of spam it…
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Our site among those listed on Turkish link spammer/hacker site?

Our site is based on phpFusion Recently we found a Turkish web page that lists the URLs of about 20 sites that all run phpFusion, along with tags PR0 through PR5 for each. "Page Rank", yes? Ours is one of those URLs -- it is tagged "PR5". The…
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What is the motive of sending spam text

Possible Duplicate: Strange spam posts not making sense I've many sites online and regularly I get the following type of spam text through "contact us" form even when containing Captchas. What could be the motive of sending such garbage?…
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I want to report as a spam (unpublish) this blog in search engines

I want to report a site as spam (unpublish) this blog in search engines. Does anyone have any suggestions on how to do it?
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