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SPAM ATTACK REPORTS
| Fixed in 12hrs: | 8 | 66.7% |
| Fixed in 24hrs: | 11 | 91.7% |
| Total Fixed: | 11 | 91.7% |
| Total Reported: | 12 |
If you notice a new type of spamming/vandalism that our site is not good at filtering, please post it below (and timestamp your request). Any additional info you can provide (links to the edits where you saw this, some overriding pattern you've found in the edits, etc.) is greatly appreciated. :)
Gibberish on entire pages
Now that we've blocked the edits, they just create pages with gibberish in them. See Special:Contributions/202.84.17.42. This is easier to police because of Special:Newpages, but it is still really annoying. --WillMak050389 15:17, 16 January 2008 (EST)
- NOTICED: 16:00, 16 January 2008 (EST) -Sean Colombo (talk|contribs) 16:00, 16 January 2008 (EST)
- This is kinda lame... I can't ssh into the server at the moment. Beat. :-/ It's a really simple fix, but I can't upload it. I might have to bounce the server (so the site would be down for a few minutes). That would not be cool.
- -Sean Colombo (talk|contribs) 22:34, 16 January 2008 (EST)
- FIXED: 12:39, 17 January 2008 (EST) -Sean Colombo (talk|contribs) 12:39, 17 January 2008 (EST)
Talk:Main Page spam
A small spam problem, just thought I'd point it out to you. It's not too urgent: Anons spam Talk:Main Page every once in a while, such as with this edit. It is almost always in the same format, so I suspect spambots are involved. --WillMak050389 22:03, 22 January 2008 (EST)
- NOTICED: 22:09, 22 January 2008 (EST) -Sean Colombo (talk|contribs)
- FIXED: 22:42, 22 January 2008 (EST) -Sean Colombo (talk|contribs)
SPAMazon
Another, not too bad [yet] spam. Someone or something creates red link pages with amazon/bargain hunter spam. If these links work: I deleted two today [1] and [2]. --WillMak050389 00:03, 26 January 2008 (EST)
- NOTICED: 03:37, 26 January 2008 (EST) Thanks for the info :) -Sean Colombo (talk|contribs)
- Another one: Talk:A_Fine_Frenzy:Near_To_You - teknomunk (talk,E,歌) 06:22, 26 January 2008 (EST)
- FIXED: 19:40, 26 January 2008 (EST) Aww man that was simple... I should have looked at it right then! I could have gotten bonus on my less-than-12-hours number :)
- Thanks for the report again guys -Sean Colombo (talk|contribs)
V146R4
Viagra advertisements. This sort of thing seems to happen with pages ending with a / and is also usually a talk page.
- teknomunk (talk,E,歌) 20:25, 28 January 2008 (EST)
- NOTICED: 20:31, 28 January 2008 (EST) -Sean Colombo (talk|contribs)
- FIXED: 20:34, 28 January 2008 (EST) - Sean Colombo (talk|contribs)
Spam eggs cheese spam
I'm running out of creative ways to title these... Anyway, it seems that spammers are just adding random links to webpages to (mainly) category pages. See [3] and [4]. --WillMak050389 14:18, 29 January 2008 (EST)
- I looked into those, and they seem to me that either the bots were broken or they were added by humans who aren't very familiar w/wiki syntax or something? The first link tries to install (presumably) malware, and the second one isn't even typed right (missing the "tml" part of "html" at the end). I put a regex in there and it appears to be fixed.
- NOTICED & FIXED: 14:31, 29 January 2008 (EST)
- -Sean Colombo (talk|contribs)
I DON'T LIKE SPAM!!
More spam at Talk:Head Automatica:Brooklyn Is Burning/, left intact for reference. As a side note, I have noticed that there is a lot less spam. ^_^
- teknomunk (talk,E,歌) 19:20, 29 January 2008 (EST)
- Crud. I deleted it before I saw this note. That's a commonly spammed page, and I've had it on my watchlist for a while. I see it listed, I slam it into oblivion. You can still view it, though. Kiefer talk contribs admin 00:47, 30 January 2008 (EST)
- NOTICED: 00:49, 30 January 2008 (EST) -Sean Colombo (talk|contribs)
- Dang, this looks like completely random junk. Not sure how I'm going to filter this one. :-/
Big chunk o' spam...
This is a new one. Spam posted on the discussion page for this week's AOTW. Was going to remove it, but for some reason, it won't let me clear the text.
— jF 21:50, 30 January 2008 (EST)
- Hi, I fixed this last night but didn't have time to post about it. Thanks for pointing it out -Sean Colombo (talk|contribs) 12:41, 31 January 2008 (EST)
Talk:Head Automatica:Brooklyn Is Burning/ again
Russian porn spam. See here. --WillMak050389 16:09, 3 February 2008 (EST)
- NOTICED: 16:16, 3 February 2008 (EST)
- FIXED: 16:16, 3 February 2008 (EST)
- Ouch... I can't read that. Do we have any Ukranians on the site? I'd like to block that spam by the words (not just the URL) if possible, but I don't want to block legitimate phrases that could be in lyrics.
- But it should be fixed as-is, just not as well as I would like.
- Thanks for the report,
- -Sean Colombo (talk|contribs) 16:16, 3 February 2008 (EST)
- As a side-note, I don't understand why that page would be such a spam-magnet. I wonder what triggered that? :-/ -Sean Colombo (talk|contribs) 16:19, 3 February 2008 (EST)
- By the way, from what bits of Russian I do know (3 yrs of highschool classes) It involves one on one prostitution with (I believe) lady Isrenne, if that helps
- King_Nee1114 (talk page • contributions • deletions) 01:23, 4 February 2008 (EST)
Another One (Do you want a Payday Loan?????)
And it is underneath this page, at User_talk:Sean_Colombo/index.php (already deleted).
- teknomunk (talk,E,歌,A) 16:24, 5 February 2008 (EST)
- NOTICED: 11:06, 6 February 2008 (EST)
- FIXED: 11:06, 6 February 2008 (EST)
- No thanks, don't want a loan. Fixed this (and the previous type of spam on that same page).
- Thanks for reporting it!
- -Sean Colombo (talk|contribs) 11:06, 6 February 2008 (EST)
More random page creations
See Talk:Main Page/, Talk:Head Automatica:Brooklyn Is Burning/ (double spam). Hope this isn't wasting too much of your time, wouldn't it be great if there were no spammers? --WillMak050389 12:16, 7 February 2008 (EST)
- NOTICED: 12:59, 7 February 2008 (EST)
- FIXED: 12:59, 7 February 2008 (EST)
- Added those to the filter & deleted them. Yeah it would be cool if there was no spam, *sigh*. Thanks for reporting this!
- -Sean Colombo (talk|contribs) 12:59, 7 February 2008 (EST)
The gibberish is back - now with SPAM!
See the deletion history for Talk:Fergie:Fergalicious. PS: Perhaps we need a LyricWiki:Spam Reports page? Kiefer talk contribs admin 18:24, 12 February 2008 (EST)
- NOTICED: 18:30, 12 February 2008 (EST) - Yeah, a spam-reports page would be nice. If I make it a sub-page of my user page I wonder if I'll still get an email when it's changed? I'll have to try that out.
- FIXED: 21:21, 12 February 2008 (EST)
Talk:Head Automatica:Brooklyn Is Burning/ ... Again
Well, I keep watching this, and I thought I'd let you know about it, there have been three more spams to this page. I just don't know what should be done about it. If we protect the page, they will just spam another. --WillMak050389 12:10, 14 February 2008 (EST)
- NOTICED: 12:21, 14 February 2008 (EST) There is a really cool concept in spam-filtering that a friend of mine mentioned once (it's doesn't "exist", he made it up). I'll look into how I can do that here, then I'll update you guys offline (unfortunately mild amount of added-security-by-obscurity).
Not the Same Spam You'd Expect
I just wanted to let you know that there is a user that is spamming red links with a message like:
www.lyricwiki.org/BGNP. PLEASE GO HERE! This has nothing to do with {artistname}.
I warned the user, and removed the bad pages, but I wanted to point it out, because a few IP's were doing it too.
King_Nee1114 (talk page • contributions • deletions) 23:59, 20 February 2008 (EST)
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See User talk:Sean Colombo/index.php, LyricWiki talk:Album Of The Week/Archive/2008/7, and LyricWiki talk:Album Of The Week/Archive/2008/7/. --WillMak050389 01:51, 24 February 2008 (EST)
- Fixed, fixed, & fixed.
- Thanks for letting me know about those,
- -Sean Colombo (talk|contribs) 11:39, 24 February 2008 (EST)
Somebody Really Likes To Spam Talk:Head Automatica:Brooklyn Is Burning/
There is more spam on it. I left it up, but it's more of the same.
King_Nee1114 (talk page • contributions • deletions) 01:25, 28 February 2008 (EST)
- Blargh. Added a little more to the filter.
- -Sean Colombo (talk|contribs) 16:57, 28 February 2008 (EST)
- I must point out, that it seems that someone was just using google translator (none of it was conjugated or anything) just to get around our filters.
- King_Nee1114 (talk page • contributions • deletions) 01:27, 29 February 2008 (EST)
- Interesting. Hmmm...
- Thanks for the info,
- -Sean Colombo (talk|contribs) 11:28, 29 February 2008 (EST)
- That page is like flame to our spambot moths. There was another editor, and this time, it dropped the fake "I'm Russian" routine.
- King_Nee1114 (talk page • contributions • deletions) 01:11, 2 March 2008 (EST)
- Blah! Reverted & blocked again.
- -Sean Colombo (talk|contribs) 10:39, 2 March 2008 (EST)
And again: (diff) --WillMak050389 17:50, 6 April 2008 (EDT)
Talk:Eels:Guest List
You might want to look at the last deleted edit. "http://allegra.smackjackblog.com/*" should probably be added to the spam filter. --WillMak050389 18:36, 3 April 2008 (EDT)
- Good catch. Filtered.
- -Sean Colombo (talk|contribs) 08:50, 4 April 2008 (EDT)
Creation of Random pages with random spam
Check the last deleted edit fromUser talk:Mischko/User talk:Mischko/Sandbox/ --WillMak050389 19:20, 5 April 2008 (EDT)
See this edit. --WillMak050389 19:21, 8 April 2008 (EDT)
Talk:Head Automatica:Brooklyn Is Burning/ again. --WillMak050389 22:03, 9 April 2008 (EDT)
pr0n sp@m
Was at this location [[5]], now deleted.
- teknomunk (talk,E,歌,A) 02:31, 9 April 2008 (EDT)
More Spam
I have been noticing more malicious spamming, where an existing page is completely overwritten by spam links. I'll try to drum up an example if I see it again.
King_Nee1114 (talk page • contributions • deletions) 15:01, 17 April 2008 (EDT)
Here we go. They seem to be occurring with greater frequency. Check this out.
- Interesting. There is something unique about the format of that page that makes me nearly certain that someone is targeting the site directly. Unless it's just coincidence, and we're actually getting hammered by potential spam that fails. It might be a good time to start building some logging into the spam-blocking so that I can get better info.
- -Sean Colombo (talk|contribs) 17:04, 25 April 2008 (EDT)
This is just getting out of hand
I've had to revert three edits to Talk:Head Automatica:Brooklyn Is Burning/ today. Thought I'd let you know... --WillMak050389 20:16, 18 April 2008 (EDT)
- I just protected it to see if that slows them down. Without knowing how they're coded, I can't be sure... but I'd like to think that the bot thinks the page is spammable and if we block it that it may give up and try another wiki (instead of another page) or just keep trying and failing.
- -Sean Colombo (talk|contribs) 16:57, 25 April 2008 (EDT)
Spam to delete
Talk:Eels:Guest List/, created today by IP 203.162.2.137. --Jack Phoenix (Contact) 10:41, 19 April 2008 (EDT)
OH DANG! I hadn't been getting alerts!
I though to myself "Wow, spam must be getting a bit better, I haven't got a spam report in weeks... wait." :(
Apparently I missed the first email (and the site won't re-email you about changes to the same page until you visit it again). I'm going to try to catch up on some of this now. Sorry for the absence.
-Sean Colombo (talk|contribs) 17:02, 25 April 2008 (EDT)
Pharmacy-for.us
87.252.227.42 has added a couple of spam ads.
King_Nee1114 (talk page • contributions • deletions) 14:51, 6 May 2008 (EDT)
- Thanks for the heads-up. I haven't received an alert yet for the Spam page or for the user-page but that might be because I was actually on the site when you changed those pages (so I saw it in the header). Not sure how that works :-/
- I've blocked that spammage though.
- Thanks again,
- -Sean Colombo (talk|contribs) 15:03, 6 May 2008 (EDT)
Curious...
What's this all about? I guess it's supposed to go automatically to the redirect url, but doesn't. Still needs to be nipped in the bud, I guess. Kiefer talk contribs admin 11:37, 12 May 2008 (EDT)
More Tomfoolery
User:209.173.14.125 and 67.52.164.132 Have been adding spam on random days, but at the same time. Just wanted to let you know, because I think this will continue.
King_Nee1114 (talk page • contributions • deletions) 12:20, 13 May 2008 (EDT)
- I blocked them for a little while. Hopefully long enough that they get bored of it. :/ lame
- Thanks for letting me know,
- -Sean Colombo (talk|contribs) 12:34, 13 May 2008 (EDT)
Check this out
Billie Holiday:I Can't Face The Music has been hit.
King_Nee1114 (talk page • contributions • deletions) 15:32, 15 June 2008 (EDT)
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