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

[Tom Willett]

On 2/10/2005 9:30 AM, Tony Bibbs wrote:


> 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:

>>>

>>>  

>>>

>>>> &amp;#111;nl&amp;#105;n&amp;#101; p&amp;#111;k&amp;#101;r</a> von 

>>>> &amp;

>>>> #111;nl&amp;#105;n&amp;#101; p&amp;#111;k&amp;#101;r<br>

>>>> Please visit some information in the field of &#111;nl&#105;n&#101;

>>>> p&#111;k&#101;r p&#111;k&#101;r p&#97;rty p&#111;k&#101;r

>>>>   

>>>

>>>

>>> 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

>>  

>>

>

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Would it make any difference if cvs is publically available?

-- 

Tom Willett
tomw at pigstye.net