[geeklog-devel] Spam, spam, bacon, eggs, and spam

[Tony Bibbs]

Makes me wonder if we shouldn't have a mailing list for developer-only 
spam discussions where strategy and stuff can be discuss less openly. 
Just a thought.

--Tony

Tom Willett wrote:

> On 2/9/2005 4:14 PM, Dirk Haun wrote:
>
>>Our special "friend" continues to flood geeklog.info with trackback spam.
>>A few of them went through since he now also seems to start using HTML
>>entities to obfuscate his posts:
>>
>>  
>>
>>>&#111;nl&#105;n&#101; p&#111;k&#101;r</a> von &
>>>#111;nl&#105;n&#101; p&#111;k&#101;r<br>
>>>Please visit some information in the field of online
>>>poker poker party poker
>>>    
>>>
>>
>>Tom, would you consider this a feature request? ;-)
>>
>>  
>>
> Its actually pretty easy to get around this.  A minor change will need 
> to be made in three files:
>
> All current cvs:
>
> Blacklist.Examine.class.php
> Change line 44 from
> if (preg_match("#$val#", $comment)) {
> to
> if (preg_match("#$val#", html_entity_decode($comment))) {
>
> IPofUrl.Examine.class.php
> change line 41 from
> $num = preg_match_all("#{$regx}#",$comment,$urls);
> to
> $num = preg_match_all("#{$regx}#",html_entity_decode($comment),$urls);
>
> MTBlackList.Examine.class.php
> change line 47 from
> if (@preg_match("#$val#", $comment)) {
> to
> if (@preg_match("#$val#", html_entity_decode($comment))) {
>
>-- 
>
>Tom Willett
>tomw at pigstye.net
>  
>