Avoiding spam-bots by renaming comments.php

February 17th, 2008 . by polyGeek

I’m at my wits end trying to keep spam-bots off my blog. I’ve tried renaming key PHP files as these guys suggest to see if that helps.

By the way, all spammers are invited to go hiking with me in the Grand Canyon anytime. Just say the word and I’m there.

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2 Responses to “Avoiding spam-bots by renaming comments.php”

  1. comment number 1 by: polyGeek
    February 20th, 2008 at 3:18 pm

    This seems to have worked. I haven’t received any comment spam in the past 4 days!

  2. comment number 2 by: polyGeek
    March 25th, 2008 at 9:01 am

    It’s been a few months now and still no comment-spam. Renaming these core files really works. And in the past month I’ve had only 4 comments get picked up by Akismet.

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