It’s one way of doing it David……off for a read now.

Thanks for the link. I’ll point out that Joe Tan has indicated he’ll add my tweaks to the original Simple Spam Filter plugin in a future version (no word on when though).

Also, my favourite spam plugin at the moment is Simple Trackback Validation. It turns out most of the spam I was getting in Askimet was trackback spam, not comment spam. There was no way to tell, but there is a new version of Askimet now which is supposed to tell you (haven’t tried it yet).

Using Simple Trackback Validation got rid of almost all the spam I was getting. It checks if the IP address of the trackback sender is the same as the IP address of the webserver the trackback URL is referring to. It also checks if there is indeed a trackback on the other site. For the first three weeks, I sent the ones it caught to the Askimet queue, but there were no false positives, so now they are just nuked. It has to be said that I don’t use Bad Behaviour, so maybe these might have been caught by that, but I love this plugin.

Of course it’s not as effective as David’s solution! I saw you were hacked David - I was really sorry to hear that and I’m glad you’re back in control. I’m heading over to read about how it was done now.

Just published my story about how the hacker squirmed into my GMail account. If you’re using GMail I think it’ll interest you.

All the best Chris.