[wp-hackers] Strange comment activtity, look familiar?

[Otto]

Simple advertising spam. Looks like a russian wireless networking
site. They're trying to get backlinks to their site, basically.

http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=ru&u=http://www.wi-net.ru/&sa=X&oi=translate&resnum=1&ct=result&prev=/search%3Fq%3Dwi-net.ru%26hl%3Den%26rlz%3D1B3GGGL_enUS276US276


2008/9/22 Daniel Torreblanca <regulatethis at gmail.com>:
> I've been getting some bizarre comments to a pretty old post on my
> blog. Here's the data from one of the approval email:
>
> Author : AAKakaKAA (IP: 91.144.185.173 , net185-173.nn.ertelecom.ru)
> E-mail : ferrabs at mail.ru
> URL    : http://wi-net.ru
> Whois  : http://ws.arin.net/cgi-bin/whois.pl?queryinput=91.144.185.173
> Comment:
> Красиво
>
> I've gotten about 25 of these over the weekend. They're all in
> Russian, and appear to originate from 2 IPs (mostly from one of them
> though). They're all from *.ertelecom.ru.
>
> I simply deleted the first few, but then when they started coming in
> more often I started spamming them. I'm only using Akismet. The
> comments themselves tend to be pretty generic/non-related but they
> certainly don't seem malicious. Anyone seen anything similar, or have
> a solution for stopping them?
>
> Daniel
>
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