Unwanted activity/content that is usually of a promotional nature.
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4answers
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Mass Deletion of Spam Revisions in Mediawiki
Basically my 'private' mediawiki instance was about as secure as a toddlers piggybank. I've tightened it up now, but am left with about a hundred or so new pages and revisions generated by hundreds of ...
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2answers
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Why do some user agents have spam urls in them (and why are they always Opera/Presto User-Agents)?
If you go to (say) the last 100 entries (visits) to the botsvsbrowsers.com website (exact link, feel free to take a look: http://www.botsvsbrowsers.com/recent/listings/index.html ), you'd notice that ...
3
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2answers
441 views
wwwstumbleupon.com referring domain in web stats
I've noticed in my own stats, as well as searching on other sites, a fair amount of traffic that comes from urls that look like this:
http://wwwstumbleupon.com/refer.php?url=http://[mydomain]/[myurl]
...
8
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4answers
615 views
Blocking referral traffic
I am currently getting a massive amount of referral traffic to my site (Spam), that can sometime generate 1-2 GB worth of traffic per a day (which kinda sucks, when you have a 10GB limit from the ...
0
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1answer
70 views
Email containing links of a website is landing in SPAM
I am using sendgrid SMTP Server to send the e-mails from my java web application. The issue is the any e-mail containing external links to a one website and images are going to spam.
If i remove the ...
0
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2answers
70 views
Spam problem through cpanel
on a new website, i publicly display an email address, contact@domain.com. then i set up an email forwarder in my hostmonster cpanel, so that if the public email address ever became spam ridden then ...
0
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1answer
18 views
Will my domain get blacklisted by auto-replying to spam emails?
At the moment, I've just set up an auto-reply function for our career email address. One problem is that we cannot differentiate between an email applying for a job with an advertisement or a spam ...
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26answers
2k views
Way to list “Contact Us” email address on web site, yet reduce likelihood of spam?
What's a good way to list a "Contact Us" email address on a web site, while reducing the likelihood it will get spammed?
Is putting the email address in an image the best technique, or are there ...
0
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0answers
7 views
How can we send out our list without getting flagged as spam? [duplicate]
We just merged with another company who uses a different service than ours. We want to be able to do all our email is one bundle. We used to use aweber for small mail blasts, but now our potential ...
0
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0answers
18 views
Good email lists cleaning services [closed]
I have around 25k email list that needs to be cleaned of bad addresses,bounces,spam,bots,etc.
Can someone recommend a good 3rd party service for this ?
2
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2answers
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Email sent via Google via relayhost being marked as spam
Company email hosted by Google Apps.
Company PBX in-house is Elastix.
All voicemails received on the extensions of Elastix are supposed to be emailed by the CentOS server (Postfix) to the email ...
2
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1answer
50 views
Use email via Google Apps to avoid shared hosting issues with blacklisted IP
I currently use a hosting package that is used both for the website and emails. Since it is a shared hosting the IP is sometimes blacklisted so our emails are considered SPAM and are bounced back. I ...
0
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3answers
678 views
Where would a spam bot be located?
I have a hosted website using a free hosting service, I received an email this afternoon saying that I have been suspended because my account has been compromised.
Basically, someone is using my ...
2
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1answer
153 views
Gmail is marking my emails as SPAM. However, ISnotSPAN marks it as not-spam
I'm sending an email through my application code.
The email gets into my gmail spam folder.
However, a test of the same email in ISnotSPAM is marked as non-spam.
My application is using Sendgrid to ...
2
votes
1answer
128 views
Possible automated Bing Ads fraud?
I run a website that generates life insurance leads. The site is very simple a) there is a form for capturing the user's details, life insurance requirements etc b) A quote comparison feature
We ...
0
votes
0answers
38 views
What is g1sense.int.godaddy.com?
I recently looked at my list of referrers (ie, previous page the user was on), and one odd one is a link like http://g1sense.int.godaddy.com:15871/cgi-bin/blockOptions.cgi?ws-session=3372311093
The ...
4
votes
2answers
2k views
Website falsely blocked because of spam. Does anyone know how we should proceed?
I'm responsible for ICT at FOS Open Scouting, a belgian scouting organisation.
Our website was hacked a few years back and blocked by Facebook as a result. After we regained control over the site ...
4
votes
2answers
129 views
Reporting paid links to google - does it work?
I am noticing that my competitors have a boat load of paid backlinks, which don't seem to be discredited from google (PR is intact, rather then 0)
Problem is, those sites aren't any gambling or ...
3
votes
1answer
101 views
Can email harvesters extract addresses from PDFs?
Our website does some basic obfuscation (foo at example dot org) for email addresses on web pages visible to the general public, but doesn't do so for PDF documents. Is it common for email harvesters ...
0
votes
1answer
67 views
Why am I getting random comments with just “door.txt;10” as the content?
I have my own comment system with some rudimentary spam protection. Recently I started getting a few comments that appear to be automated with the name "XlsUoIGh" and the content "doors.txt;10"
I ...
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2answers
53 views
I want to report as a spam (unpublish) this blog in search engines [closed]
I want to report a site as spam (unpublish) this blog in search engines. Does anyone have any suggestions on how to do it?
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6answers
2k views
Safe way to send thousands of promotional emails
My new partner has an email list with over 1 Million email addresses for targeted traffic (no spam... only genuine subscribers from his last startup )
But now I have a problem.. how can I sent an ...
4
votes
1answer
105 views
Best way to protect yourself against “almost manual” spam
(Maybe this is not the correct stack exchange site, please redirect me if so).
We have a Trac instance here and are getting the following spam text (I replaced dots and dashes in the URLs by ...
4
votes
1answer
568 views
How do I deal with content scrapers? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How to protect SHTML pages from crawlers/spiders/scrapers?
My Heroku (Bamboo) app has been getting a bunch of hits from a scraper identifying itself as GSLFBot. Googling ...
1
vote
1answer
366 views
Facebook thinks my site may be unsafe! [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Website falsely blocked because of spam. Does anyone know how we should proceed?
Whenever anybody clicks on a link that I've posted on any Facebook Page (including my ...
2
votes
2answers
121 views
adsense click spamming
Questions
What software do people use for adsense click spamming ?
How are they structured ?
How does it work ?
How can we block them ?
I tried looking at google but not much information there ...
2
votes
1answer
382 views
Use of list-unsubscribe to improve inbox delivery
To overcome email being classified as spam by Gmail, Google recommends a number of steps, which we have implemented (namely SPF, DKIM, and Precedence: bulk).
One additional measure they recommend at ...
2
votes
3answers
323 views
Page blocked by antivirus
My client reports that [this page][1] I designed is blocked by his antivirus (Norton) : . The rest of the website is not blocked. Do you have any idea why Norton would block this page ? The report ...
4
votes
3answers
128 views
Identical spam coming from many different (but similar) IP addresses
A forum I run has been the victim of spam user accounts recently - several accounts that have been registered and the profile fill with advertising/links. All of this is for the same company, or group ...
1
vote
1answer
73 views
Someone using my website for Email and significant increase in spam
Let me give you the background in context so that you know the full story.
Last summer my web guy (he put my website together) got in a fight with someone who attempted to register on my site using ...
29
votes
3answers
4k views
How do spambots work?
I have a forum that's getting hit a lot by forum spambots, and of course the best way to defeat something is to know thy enemy. I'll worry about defeating those spambots later, but right now I'd like ...
18
votes
10answers
11k views
How can I prevent my mail from being classified as spam?
My company sometimes send mail, but it usually goes to "spam" folder in gmail. The email includes only a few sentences, without any links or images. Just plain text. How can I fix this? (Notice that I ...
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vote
1answer
83 views
Website attack form submission triggering emails related questions
We are experiencing website attacks that trigger the submission of a form, and send alert emails.
Normal process of form submission is to fill up a couple of text fields, and when the user is ...
2
votes
1answer
110 views
Do Spambots have access to unlimited IP addresses?
I have been attacked for weeks by the same spambot trying to brute force the login page. I have a login security module now installed on my Drupal 6 website and it bans on IP after x amount of ...
0
votes
0answers
293 views
Sending Emails via Google SMTP - after some time quit working
on a website I use PHPMailer to send automated registration emails, etc and also a newsletter-tool (which loops through the emails and sends them one by one).
Also, I configured in Gmail under ...
0
votes
2answers
61 views
using blank image to improve post value
I have seen people (including popular digital agencies) using 1 x 1px transparent image, so that they can add page title as alt value.
Does that really increases the value of a web page or that's a ...
1
vote
1answer
98 views
How do I stop my vBulletin forum from having unregistered guests spamming it?
It seems my vbulletin forum is still having problems with unregistered guests spamming threads and members Inbox on the forum. Do you have a solution for this?
0
votes
2answers
167 views
My Blog is marked as spam because of adBrite
I was blogging for over a month. I never thought of publishing ads in my blog until I was recommended to adBrite. I copied the widget code and just added it to my blog. Crap, suddenly I got a message ...
0
votes
0answers
17 views
How to avoid email reply from my web site being marked as spam? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How could I prevent my mail from being recognized as spam?
Here's the situation:
Customer fills out inquiry form on web site
That inquiry goes to person X
Person X ...
14
votes
3answers
1k views
How can I prevent spam on sites which I control?
This is a general, community wiki question to address all non-specific spam prevention questions.
If your question was closed as a duplicate of this question and you feel that the information ...
1
vote
1answer
66 views
Website address hacked, emails created but not showing in manage your account
I have a website, thebleudoor.com. It is hosted by yahoo. It gets 2000-3000 hits a day and has been for at least 5 years.
A few months ago, as admin of the website, I started getting bounced back ...
2
votes
1answer
133 views
Does text size and placement on page have an effect on SEO
As Google and other search engines keep trying to get more and more 'human' in terms of understanding what's good and what's spam, is it known if they take into account the size of a heading ie. an ...
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vote
1answer
78 views
Random links seo and spam
I built a mini-forum with social features for a client, to promote user registration, i planned to add a box on the forum pages to display pictures with profile links of random registered users.
I ...
7
votes
5answers
374 views
Better Spam Protection than reCAPTCHA?
I hope this is a valid question to ask here... but knows anyone a better spam protection than reCAPTCHA? We've now using reCAPTCHA for some time but got now the situation that obviously more and more ...
2
votes
2answers
68 views
Dealing with spam by blocking URLs?
I run a giant community.
Many spammers will use link shorteners or .tk domains that 301 to their spam offer.
How are sites detecting the final domain and is this a viable solution to block spam?
ex. ...
10
votes
2answers
266 views
How to deal with overly aggressive “Link Take Down Demands”?
I've been receiving a large number of emails recently requesting I clean from link spam from my forum. Initially the emails were very polite and professional, and I was happy to remove the links. ...
13
votes
4answers
828 views
Is Email list “cleaning” a legitimate practice?
A client has provided us with an excel spreadsheet of around 10,000 email addresses, names and addresses. They were taken from a CRM used previously.
I've been asked to "clean" up this database - ...
3
votes
5answers
2k views
We've had our content copied under a different URL - why and what do we do?
We have a problem. We've noticed a large amount of traffic showing up on our Google Analytics. Upon further investigation we have found that we've had our content copied under a different URL.
Our ...
0
votes
2answers
63 views
What type of spam is this?
This is a trivial question but I want to understand how spam works. On my site I get a contact us form submitted every night between 2:30am to 3:00am. There is not message in the form and I know it is ...
5
votes
3answers
195 views
What do big websites do about spam emails to the support department?
My website's support email address is starting to get a lot of spam emails to it, what do big companies do about this?
