Comments on: Spam Hack Attack

By: Henning-Uhle IT Solutions

Henning-Uhle IT Solutions — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 20:40:47 +0000

Adam, good idea with a custom text. LOL

By: Adam

Adam — Mon, 07 Sep 2009 11:05:16 +0000

Yeah, I’ve had the joys of MikeWink too, I already had user registration confirmation installed on my blog though, so he just achieved a slightly pissy email saying “WHO THE HELL ARE YOU TO REGISTER ON MY BLOG RAGERAGERAGE. Thanks, Adam”

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Sun, 06 Sep 2009 06:13:24 +0000

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Eckyman.com » A Word(press) of Warning! — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 15:36:11 +0000

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By: Henning-Uhle IT Solutions

Henning-Uhle IT Solutions — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 19:01:54 +0000

Also had such guests:

Username: Andrianq
E-Mail: pulvillarrac@gmail.com

Username: MikeWink
E-Mail: bugbeemershonyhe@gmail.com

Username: derricklloid
E-Mail: jonatanwebsterbaum@gmail.com

And so on…

For WordPress Plattforms which are affected you can try the plugin “Confirm User Registration”. More here:

http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/confirm-user-registration/

Good luck,
Henning from Germany

By: jason

jason — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 21:38:32 +0000

Thanks for the post. I just recently started receiving these as well. I will make a post on my site to notify other users. Here are the Username/Email I have had so far:

Username: rafaellabove
E-mail: jonatanwebsterbaum@gmail.com

Username: Andrianq
E-mail: pulvillarrac@gmail.com

Username: MikeWink
E-mail: bugbeemershonyhe@gmail.com

Username: Miriam
E-mail: obierebelominepyb@gmail.com

Username: arnoldisby
E-mail: naomyrotenford@gmail.com