Thank you, Akimset spam detector

March 2, 2009 – 1:47 pm

One of the most popular plugins for WordPress blogs is the Akimset spam detector. Mine says it has found and squashed 93,860 spam posts since it was installed. I’m always amazed at what type of spam the robots try and sneak through every day.

Here’s a recent spam post:

“poonnnbvhifiytfyudyufydyddyufytfyufyutfyfyfyutfyfyutfyufytfytfyfyufytftyftftftftftftftttttttttttttttttttttttttttttfffffffffffffffffffffffffttttttttttttttttttttttffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffbut”

Thanks for the comment! I’ll be sure to raise that issue with management the next time I see them.

  1. 23 Responses to “Thank you, Akimset spam detector”

  2. I’ve found one of the best spam defences on my blog was to simply rename the Name, Email, Comment, etc fields to something that’s nonsense. It seems that 99% of spambots just look for fields called “comment” or “message” and post that.

    For example, just looking at this page, your fields are called “author”, “email”, “url” and “comment”. By renaming them to garbage, you save a lot of processing on the server, because the spam bot doesn’t even try.

    By Dean on Mar 2, 2009

  3. Dean, not a half bad tip! Sort of like how Jeff Atwood always has a constant captcha of just “orange”.

    By Rick Brewster on Mar 2, 2009

  4. I believe it’s spelled Akismet.

    By toe_head2001 on Mar 2, 2009

  5. Have you looked into reCAPTCHA? I haven’t have a bot ever since I started using it on my transit blog at blog.raggiesoft.com

    By Michael Ragsdale on Mar 2, 2009

  6. @Dean: How do I do that on a Wordpress blog?

    By Michael Ragsdale on Mar 2, 2009

  7. poonnnbvhifiytfyudyufydyddyufytfyufyutfyfyfyutfyfyutfyufytfytfyfyufytftyftftftftftftfttttttttttttttttttttttttt!!!

    I mean, is that projection for Paint.NET 4.0 on the Roadmap page still accurate?

    By A_Pickle on Mar 3, 2009

  8. FSLdksjkdiogfSJDOIGsjoigjsodigjosdjgioJSOIGjsodjgoisjgoiJSOIdjgoisjgoijsdogijs

    Seriously. The bots got owned :)

    By Anubis on Mar 7, 2009

  9. A_Pickle — No. I need to update that. I’ll do it right now in fact.

    By Rick Brewster on Mar 7, 2009

  10. Paint.NET v3.5
    This release will implement many important “under the hood” changes to set the stage for a successful version 4.0 release. The target date for this release is Summer 2008.

    Rick, Did i miss something……….. Summer 2008?

    By Tom on Mar 9, 2009

  11. Tom, woops! Fixed.

    By Rick Brewster on Mar 9, 2009

  12. Summer 2009 D: Sadface x10000!

    By Fission on Mar 9, 2009

  13. wow. Good job.

    By spritemoney on Mar 9, 2009

  14. If these jokers would spend their time working on productive projects, the world economy would get an instant boost. How much time do we spend with viruses, bots, spam, etc? What a waste.

    Thanks for the great program here too. I love it!

    By Stainless steel Keith on Mar 10, 2009

  15. Thank you for the work that you have done!
    It’s a lovely program

    By Ashtonian on Mar 10, 2009

  16. Dear Rick Brewster,

    Is Arabic language supported in Paint.net 3.36?
    I don’t mean the Arabic language interface but at least ability to write right to lift text.

    If not is it in the agenda of 4.0 release?

    By Faris on Mar 22, 2009

  17. Faris, I’m not sure how your question is related to this blog post at all. This is not an appropriate place for general/random questions.

    By Rick Brewster on Mar 22, 2009

  18. I was thinking if you can make this for the iPod Touch. You know like app store? It would be Pretty amazing to do so. I will love you guys forever. I know you guys don’t own a Mac (Thank you!). But this can be an oppurtunity of a life time to put you software or App to the world on the number on Music player. iPhones and iPods.

    By Ike on Mar 24, 2009

  19. It’s on the todo list right after porting to the VIC-20.

    By Rick Brewster on Mar 24, 2009

  20. I feel the intense desire to quote that last exchange in my forum sig, Rick.

    By Sozo on Mar 30, 2009

  21. judging by the position of the lettering of fty and u on a qwerty keyboard, uytftyuftyftuyftyuftuyftuyf was made by a person, not a bot. (The keys fit perfectly to the 4 fingers of the right hand). Just my inner nerdiness speaking out, sorry :P

    By Matt on Mar 31, 2009

  22. WordPress people love Akimset? What a coincident. When I first read this post on my feed reader, I though it would be great to run into a website with this spam detector to see it in action.

    Now I am thinking that it would have been so great if this spam detector was never created, so that it was never blogged about, so that I never wished I see one in action, so that I was never banned from a certain product’s forum for posting a very polite bug report. Apparently, this Akimset does not like snapshots uploaded to a photo sharing website whose name is spelled out T, I, N, Y, P, I, C, dot, C, O, M even when the screenshot’s hyperlink is not alive.

    Now, a word of advise for those who wish to see their favorite weapons in action: Either don’t wish anymore or do not ask it from a deity that is not omniscient enough to know you don’t like to see the said weapon in the act of OPENING FIRE UPON YOU. Or… Okay, feel free to disregard my advise, if you wish so(!).

    By Fleet Command on Apr 8, 2009

  23. Amazing program, really well done for making it. It’s so useful and easy to use..My one thing is that I have install the microsoft net framework evertime i go to a new machine. Any chance of bundling the net framework with the pain.net installer?

    By david scanlon on May 13, 2009

  24. Fleet Command, ehh?

    david scanlon — The next release of Paint.NET will make this much easier. And automatic!

    By Rick Brewster on May 13, 2009

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