Comment Spammers
Over the course of the last 5 days my blog was hit by a sustained comment spam attack for the first time. I’ve got the occasional one before, but this one involved over 400 comments for 4 different sites.
All of the comments have been removed now, fairly painlessly thanks to MT-Blacklist. I’ve never paid it much attention before, as I’ve never had the need, but it proved it’s worth admirably. We’re now running the latest version (1.64) as opposed to the 1.0-beta which was never upgraded :(
Now it’s just a matter of keeping it updated and adding new patterns to it once in a while.