Last week my site was attacked by spammer. On my How to create code snippet entry, some idiot decides to spam it. It had 147 of spam comments. Its funny I must say why someone/some bot decides to spam my site. Its not like my site is getting a huge number ammount of visitors. Well anyway, I thought the spams were a temporary thing, so I decided to just remove the comment XML file and not doing anything to prevent it from happening again. Boy I was wrong, it happened again!! This time is not as much (only 15 spam comments), but it shows how the spammer is still keen on spamming my site.

Having to know nothing about how to prevent spammer, I decided to prevent this in simplistic way, which is to change the comment settings to require approval. This means that the spammer's comment will only visible to me, unless if I approve his comments. I was thinking that maybe by doing so the spammer would just give up, since he's not able to see the result of his spams. I was wrong again!! The idiot still spamming me with useless comments filled in with links to mallicious sites.

I decided to have a look on dasBlog configuration settings, I thought that spammer must be a common problems to blog sites, and I assume that dasBlog should have implemented something to help fight spammer. Luckily, dasBlog does have a spammer settings. It has a couple of options, but one settings that caught my eye was "Enable refferal blacklist". I had it enable, and entered the spammer IP address to the list. I thought that would do the trick, but it didn't work.

Not able to have the blacklist working, I opted to another settings which is to enable Akismet. Akismet is a spam blocking service that's free for personal use. Akismet requires an API key which you'll get when you register an account with WordPress. So I created a WordPress account and use the API key for my blog site, and it works!! In dasBlog you get an option to automaticaly remove the spam or wait for my authorization before removing it. I just set it to automatic, and I've never seen that spammer spams my site anymore, awesome! If you had problem with spammer in your blogsite, I highly recommend the Akismet service. It works like a charm.

RWendi