Not surprisingly, I get a lot of spam comments to this blog. Recently I noticed strings of letters appearing in the text of the comments. For example, “jekjxcntwdhsencnj” is in several comments that contain links to a registry cleaner. One must ask why make an obvious spam comment stand out any more than it already does? I’ll speculate that it gives the spammer a way to track their comments and concentrate on sites that allow comments to be posted without moderation. In fact a quick Google search of “jekjxcntwdhsencnj” found 748 hits and a search of “jekjxcntwdhsencnj registry” found 821 hits. Many of these sites were flagged as questionable by Norton Internet Security.
Several means are available to combat spam comments.
- Turn the comment feature off on your blogging platform.
- Moderate comments. In other words, you must check all comments and allow only the real ones into the system.
- Blacklist the IP address. This option allows you to completely block the IP address of the spammer but is easily bypassed if you cannot specify an address range.
- Work with your hosting provider to explore other options.