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Me: I live in Silicon Valley with my wife, child and cat. I have worked at Microsoft since I graduated from College, both in the Macintosh Business Unit on products such as Outlook Express, Entourage, IE, and Virtual PC and in Windows Live on Hotmail, Calendar and People. I am currently a Principal Lead Program Manager on the Windows Live Social Networking team. I basically manage a team of Program Managers responsible for delivering features to support our web and client applications. I've been blogging since 2001 and like to play around with .NET in my spare time working on projects such as dasBlog (the blog that powers this site) and Send to SmugMug (an application for uploading photos to SmugMug). I blog about a number of technology and productivity related topics.

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Monday, June 13, 2005

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Take that you pesky Trackback spammer

There is nothing like a persistent annoying issue to get Visual Studio fired up to put an end to a problem. Some really annoying person/bot has been leaving me 4-6 Trackback spams per day. This only happens on a handful of posts, and to make matters worse, they point back to a site that has no info.

Well NO MORE! dasBlog can now fight back against Trackback spam. After some time this weekend my Event log now says:

Info TrackbackBlocked:
Trackback Referral blocked for Tablet PCs improve employee productivity at Microsoft from http://bardak.com.ru/ originating at IP Address 211.138.91.30 because the server did not return a valid response

Haha! Coming soon to dasBlog will be:

Trackbacks/Referrals can be deleted from posts
dasBlog will check an incoming trackback for a link to your site (preventing stupid spammers from getting links on your posts) and serve them a 404 if it does not find one.
dasBlog will check if the incoming url to see if it is even alive and server them a 404 if it is not.
dasBlog will check the trackback URL against the blocked referral blacklist (Scott checked this in but it's currently not working for me for some reason).
A number of other features and bugfixes as time allows (believe it or now, I'm dammed busy with work and life right now).

dasBlog

Posted Monday, June 13, 2005 Permalink Comments [5] View blog reactions

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Monday, June 13, 2005 2:36:09 PM (Pacific Daylight Time, UTC-07:00)

http://bardak.com.ru/ - Argh!!!!

I can't wait.

greg

Greg Hughes

Monday, June 13, 2005 4:24:36 PM (Pacific Daylight Time, UTC-07:00)

Awesome! Thanks for doing this, Omar.

Michael Earls

Tuesday, June 14, 2005 8:27:29 PM (Pacific Daylight Time, UTC-07:00)

Excellent! Thank You!

It would also appear that there is an issue in the current build of DasBlog with turning off the TrackBack Service. I've blogged about it @
http://www.securecoder.com/blog/TrackbackSPAM.aspx

Anil John

Wednesday, June 15, 2005 9:35:34 AM (Pacific Daylight Time, UTC-07:00)

Omar, Your work on DasBlog is excellent. I am thankful for all the work you've put into it and I look forward to using the next release. As always, installation is painless and it just always works. I've never had a single problem with it. As far as I am concerned, it's the #1 blog engine for me. Keep up the most excellent work! Again, thanks so much.