Banned.
I was getting hit pretty hard by spam comments for a while (thanks to the excellent Akismet Wordpress plugin, none of it actually made its way past the filters), so I ended up banning the IP address responsible for 99% of it.
Life was good.
And now they’re back. Different IP, but same base range. So, that entire range is now banned from this site. Don’t worry - most people won’t be affected (and by most people I mean the two dozen people that ever read this site). The IP in question is a fairly well known, fairly prolific spam center.
So goodbye, 85.255.117.* — you won’t be missed.
Tel said,
August 16, 2008, 6:40 pm
I’ve done a bit of searching on the range 85.255.112.0 - 85.255.127.255 and it is owned by UkrTeleGroup and nothing good comes out of there.
They are regular culprits for DNS redirection attacks and spam and virus attacks come from these addresses too. They also seem to regularly sweep the WWW and particularly search for forums and blogs. I fully advocate blocking the entire address range, in both directions. If you find a machine on your network trying to contact this range then almost certainly that machine has a virus.