Xavier Media®

In the last few days I've noticed some weird blog spam in some of my blogs. The thing with this spam is that Akismet is not reacting and marking the comments as spam. They go directly to the approve comment queue.

It's easy to see that the comment is a spam comment, but it's a little bit annoying that Akismet can't see it's spam

Anyway, the weird part of these spam comments are the URL field because it's just http://url as web site and not a wokring web site Since the comments don't contain any links or other contact information these spam comments are completely useless if they somehow should get approved and not marked as spam. They are simply just words Since the spam is coming from everywhere (different networks, IPs and users) it must be some kind of trojan infecting peoples computers and sending the spam.

As you can see on this sample comment, it's just words and a non-working URL:

I get a feeling that someone did a poor job programming this spam bot/trojan

Have you also seen this kind of poor spam comments lately?

About the author
Andreas co-founded Xavier Media® in 1996 and has since been involved in all kinds of development, marketing and making money online.