Akismet Killer Spam
A new piece of comment spam making the rounds breaks popular WordPress plugin Akismet, by blocking access to the Akismet spam queue.
Symptom: Your Akismet spam queue displays nothing but the number 35.
Solution: Go into phpMyAdmin from your hosting control panel and browse wp_comments. Find and delete entries from “Bush” using email address “main@yandex.com” and URL “http://google.com”, like so:
Once you’ve deleted all such entries, your Akismet spam queue should be accessible again.
Spam that punishes anyone who filters it. Vicious.
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So THAT’S what happened.
This particular spambot attacks repeatedly and periodically. Its strategy could be to make bloggers drop Akismet, so its next attack gets through.
I get crap from main@yandex.com on my blog all the time (ioannusdeverani.wordpress.com). I am forming an attack against him (use his own tactics). Please join here.
Please digg it at http://digg.com/tech_news/Let_s_Spam_the_Spammers.
Thanks a lot
IP 81.177.22.243 you likely know already
somewhere in Russia
whois report gives details
Host: ACB5C779.ipt.aol.com