I feared the worst when I got a random comment attached to a very old post with the words “Nice Site!”. As suspected, the poster’s URL leads to a commercial porn site. Now I see that lots of Movable Type blogs, such as Making Light and Blogcritics have been hit by the same piece of bottom feeding slime, in their cases dozens of posts rather than just one. I got off lightly.
Teresa Nielsen Hayden wishes a case of boils on the perpetrator. I’ll add a severe case of piles to that.
This post on the Movable Type support forum suggests a drastic solution; renaming the legitimate MT Comments script, and replacing the original with a spider trap that adds the perp to the banned IP list in the HTACCESS file.
Someone’s done some detective work and identified the porn spammer as based in, you’ve guessed it, Florida. There’s always the Traveller Imperial Navy solution; “Nuke the state from orbit, it’s the only way to be sure!”
In the meantime, if you run a Movable Type blog, be sure to add the IP Address: 209.210.176.20 to your IP ban list.
