I have 2 directory, one using Php Link Directory and another using Php My Directory. Both are great scripts for directory but for different purpose and I bought license for them to be used in two saperate sites. Unfortunately due to porpularity and cheaper entry point for Php Link Directory. I am getting quite some amount of spam, not sure if there is a automated bot to submit to phplinkdirectory website.
Because the directory is intended for a Malaysia Directory, those sites are all invalid sites and I see a lot of it is Wordpress site that still maintain a default “About Me” page.
Although in PhpMyDirectory I could do them in batch but it is still 20 at a time and I hope I did not delete some valid sites (actually I have found none).
Spam drives me absolutely crazy. Something recently hacked through my host and dropped some nasty javascript into the index file of folder on my server.
Ryan: yup…me too..especially i am running to many different scripts…some are really poorly design
Don’t you have the software set up so you have to manually approve submissions?
That would be the easiest way to stop this sort of thing.
I actually think the spammer got through a php script, or loophole in Wordpress. I hadn’t upgraded one of my clients blogs to 2.7.1 and the spammer got into every file on my server. I’m so glad that I have everything fixed and secured for the time being.
When you say spam, how many entries are you talking about? My directories have never had more than 8 spam submissions at once. You must have gotten hit hard.
Remote DB: that is actually worst…then all spam will be views by my visitors
Erica: I had like 200+, one page view of 20 submission, so I have to do it like more than 10 times in batch of 20s.
@ Adi – how so? If you set it so that you manually approve submissions, noone sees anything until you’ve decided that it’s ok.
Am I missing something?
If you have admin panel and rights to approve any entry then how is that possible? I don’t think like this.