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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:

Akismet Killer

Once you’ve deleted all such entries, your Akismet spam queue should be accessible again.

Spam that punishes anyone who filters it. Vicious.

November 17, 2006 · 4 Comments

Moved in to MikeAbundo.com

After a year and a half on BlogSpot, I’ve moved to this WordPress blog on MikeAbundo.com. Please update your bookmarks accordingly, and feel the new Mike Abundo Effect.

If you’re reading this in your feedreader, you don’t need to do anything to resubscribe. The feed address stays the same. If you’ve subscribed to my old blog’s autodetected feed through your browser, please subscribe to the this updated feed instead. Enjoy the new Mike Abundo Effect!

October 13, 2006 · 4 Comments