Somebody started massively flooding my blog with comments, obviously automated pretty efficiently. I’ve reattached the comments to this entry. Update: A quick Google search shows that the script to do this is freely available, which sucks, but there’s probably not much one can do about it. Update: There’s some discussion about the crap flooders going on; some patches I may apply are available from Phil Ringnalda’s blog. Update: I had left the comments for possibly trying to find out more, but it seems this is actually old news (an excellent step-by-step guide to a safer blog is available at Burningbird). I’ll remove the comments and leave only one of them, so perhaps somebody looking around as I did today will stumble across the instructions.
FloodMT is the first integrated solution for testing Movable Type blogs for working anti-spamming features. It can also be used to check the effectiveness of plugins such as MT-Blacklist and ClearComments. It has been tested with Movable Type 2.6, and should even work with version 2.66 if a sufficient number of proxies are used.
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