#$!@ Blog Spammers

It’s been bad enough delting the email crud generated by the latest virus, but today I got my first porn content inserted into a comment on this weblog, with links to just about everything possible you could imagine being enlarged, shrunk, photographed, made money on, etc.

So if you exercise IP banning on your blogs (this is my first one listed, and I suspect it is not much protection), make sure you ban this piece of dog poop:

IP Address: 61.181.5.80
Name: vig-rx
Email Address: bushlee@yahoo.com

Judging from the tracerout below (I removed the starting path from maricopa out to our Phoenix path), it wades through the usual suspects (Hong Kong, China, and likely into some anonymized zone:

5 phx-edge-05.inet.qwest.net (206.80.195.185) 4.23 ms 6.335 ms 4.893 ms
6 phx-core-01.tamerica.net (206.80.192.246) 4.308 ms 7.518 ms 4.589 ms
7 den-core-01.tamerica.net (205.171.8.77) 25.961 ms 32.907 ms 23.603 ms
8 den-core-02.tamerica.net (205.171.16.90) 25.454 ms 26.682 ms 24.207 ms
9 500.pos2-0.gw2.den4.alter.net (157.130.172.41) 32.802 ms 25.334 ms 28.771 ms
10 153.at-5-0-0.cl1.den4.alter.net (152.63.92.150) 26.564 ms 29.352 ms 24.435 ms
11 0.so-0-0-0.tl1.slt4.alter.net (152.63.9.70) 53.337 ms 34.09 ms 35.05 ms
12 0.so-4-1-0.tl1.scl2.alter.net (152.63.1.25) 69.921 ms 64.003 ms 63.831 ms
13 0.so-1-0-0.xl1.scl2.alter.net (152.63.1.10) 63.751 ms 64.279 ms 62.602 ms
14 0.so-5-0-0.br1.scl2.alter.net (152.63.57.45) 62.598 ms 66.622 ms 62.14 ms
15 sl-bb20-sj-6-1-1620xt1.sprintlink.net (144.232.9.1) 129.007 ms 196.098 ms 183.324 ms
16 sl-bb21-sj-15-0.sprintlink.net (144.232.3.158) 69.304 ms 65.816 ms 64.868 ms
17 sl-bb24-sj-12-0.sprintlink.net (144.232.3.202) 65.742 ms 63.491 ms 65.603 ms
18 sl-bb21-hk-14-1.sprintlink.net (144.232.9.38) 241.133 ms 242.436 ms 242.911 ms
19 sl-gw10-hk-14-0.sprintlink.net (203.222.38.38) 283.809 ms 241.48 ms 241.848 ms
20 sla-chinet-1-0.sprintlink.net (203.222.39.58) 409.713 ms 418.788 ms 407.358 ms
21 219.158.3.29 (219.158.3.29) 413.733 ms 413.654 ms *
22 * 219.158.6.10 (219.158.6.10) 410.615 ms 418.538 ms
23 202.99.66.142 (202.99.66.142) 415.673 ms 410.778 ms 413.926 ms
24 * * *
25 * * *
26 * * *
27 * * *

If people responsible for this put their energy into doing something actually productive for society, the world would be vastly a different place… called Utopia.

I am worried this is just the beginning and it will become a regular chore to not only clean my inbox of this crap but now my weblog.

Grrrrrrrrowl. This dog wants a bite out of spammers. Come out from hiding, you stinky weasels.