Blog spam
My site was comment spammed by Russians recently.
I started noticing the sites load speed. It was bad, sometimes timing out. I thought that my brother, who shares this server and has a very popular game site on it may be the cause. I checked the logs and was wrong. Comment spammers had found the AJAX comments on the blog. I have disabled the comments, deleted about 70000 comment spams. but spammers now think comments are open and are submitting about 1 comment a second. Problem was, the site takes more than 1 second to load since its served by DSL. I played around with firewall rules to make them go away, but settled on an apache “Deny from all” stanza for the trackbacks directory.
Sorry for no comments, they will return with handy dandy captcha’s when the spammers get the message.