Nginx: How To Stop Referrer Spam With Keyword Filtering

November 4th, 2007 Comment Guard Pro is finally turning out to be the uber anti-comment spam protection plugin I dreamt of; everything you would ever want in a comment spam protection plugin and more, much more. The plugin itself is composed of several modules, each of which can be individually enabled / disabled, tweaked and configured all from the user interface.

September 9th, 2007 Sometimes I see comments where the name of the person is not really his name but a popular keyword which obviously links to his website. While I understand the need to have link-love for useful comments and even encourage it, the name field shouldn't be abused by using keywords like "Web Banner Design", for example.

June 3rd, 2005 Diatribe against Referrer Karma, a WordPress plugin gone wild.

December 20th, 2007 Ever since we installed Comment Guard Pro, anti comment-spam plugin on this blog, it stopped over 1 millon spam comments (1001011 spam comments were blocked by Angsuman's Comment Guard plugin in 335 days 8 hours 38 minutes. 99.338 % of the comments received during this time were spam.) so far (look in the right sidebar for latest stats).

July 27th, 2005 My Referrer Bouncer plugin for WordPress Publishing Platform has been rather popular plugin with WordPress bloggers. It simply bounces referrer spammers back to their own domain, effectively forcing them to spam their own servers.

August 10th, 2008 nginx [engine x] is a high quality, light footprint (much ligher than Apache HTTPD), high performance HTTP server and mail proxy server written by Igor Sysoev. nginx is distributed under BSD license unlike its competitor Lighttpd.

July 13th, 2005 What features would you like in your dream blogging software? Let me know your thoughts. Here's what comes to my mind: Commenting with: WYSIWYG with shortcuts and buttons and spell checker (Tom Raftery's suggestion) Strong Spam Protection through: Blacklist Trackback Moderation (Should Trackback even be there?) Keyword (regex) moderation IP Banning Referrer Bouncer Rule based spam checking Full support for RSS 2.0 & Atom 0.3, Pingback protocols Offline Blogging support through MT and Blogger protocols Multi-blog-multi-author SERP optimized Update: Blogging with: WYSIWYG Editor with special tags enabled and spell-checker (Tom Raftery's suggestion).

February 22nd, 2007 Comment Guard 0.3 Beta is a bug fix release. Very occassionally the plugin would request a valid commenter to submit his comment again.

October 7th, 2005 Name: Angsuman's Referrer Bouncer Version: 1.2 Category: WordPress Plugin Compatibility: WordPress 1.5x and above Overview This is the new version of the popular Referrer Bouncer Plugin for WordPress. It is recommended upgrade for existing users.

July 10th, 2008 Nginx tutorials and examples doesn't tell you how you can configure nginx with virtual hosting when different sites are in different pre-defined directories. Often you are moving over your site from a different web server like Apache HTTPD to Nginx.

May 5th, 2005 Comment Spam, Trackback Spam, Pingback Spam and Referrer Spam are ever increasing problems with blogs. After moving my blog over to WordPress 1.5, I revisited my Spam prevention strategy.

May 15th, 2005 I am sharing by Referrer Bouncer Plugin BlackList. This can be used with the Referrer Bouncer plugin by creating a custom referer.txt (if not done already) and adding/merging this list contents.

April 29th, 2006 In an interesting move Microsoft decided to turn off outbound filtering of inbuilt Firewall in Vista by default. Outbound filtering for applications will configurable by enterprise administrators through Group Policy.

July 9th, 2008 Nginx displays a peculiar but logical behavior when handling directories specified without the ending slash. For example you have a directory like http://www.example2.com/dir/.

October 9th, 2008 By now all of are aware how Mansoor Peerbhoy has masterminded the terrorist attacks in India, that he showed no remorse in killing non-muslims and doesn't care about the consequences, you are also aware how he was a senior software engineer working at Yahoo / Zimbra and earning an impressive salary by Indian standards. You also heard that he was very tech savvy and an nginx (a faster and apparently better alternative to Apache web server or even lighttpd web server) expert.