Today I noticed a strange comment to one of my blog posts that I hadn't approved. At first I thought my blog has been hacked and some spammer or malicious writer posted this comment or inserted malicious links/IFrame tags into my posts. I quickly checked all my posts for these (by clicking on "edit post", then "edit Html", and checking each "http href"and searching for "iframe") and found everything to be clean. I then looked at the comment...
While hovering my mouse cursor on the hyper link "here it is", I see the URL "hxxp://www.yourtypingbiz.info/billion-dollar-market.php" in the status bar at the bottom of my Firefox browser window. Clearly, this is a case of SPAM.Now how did this comment get into my post without me approving it first? Well, I found out that my comments were actually "NOT moderated"! I thought I had turned on moderation of comments, but apparently I didn't. So some spammer simply posted such a comment (with a link to their phishing website) to all blogger blogs that do not have comment moderation turned on. They probably do this via a script in order to reach a multitude of blogs.
My next step was to simply delete the comment and turn on moderation of comments.
My next step was to simply delete the comment and turn on moderation of comments.
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