[wp-hackers] Best way to 'enhance' wp-comments-post.php

[David Chait]

EEEEk.  That'd also mean you'd effectively bandwidth DOS whatever site has 
that file...

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "John Sinteur" <john at sinteur.com>
To: <wp-hackers at lists.automattic.com>
Sent: Thursday, May 25, 2006 2:43 PM
Subject: Re: [wp-hackers] Best way to 'enhance' wp-comments-post.php


|
| On May 25, 2006, at 20:38, David Chait wrote:
|
| > Having written my own solution (CG-AntiSpam), I can give you one
| > word of
| > advice: were I a spammer, I wouldn't necessarily ever check for
| > response
| > codes, redirects, etc.
|
|
| What I've seen so far is that most spammers use a zombie network, and
| the small bits of code they run uses the internet explorer engine
| that's present on the hijacked machines.
|
| Which means, if  you do this:
|
| header("Location: http://some-really-large-download.iso");
|
| in your anti-spam plugin, you'll notice that most spammers see a
| significant slowdown of their botnet after a few spam attempts, and
| take your weblog URL out of their list and leave you alone.
|
| -John
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