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james_davis_nicoll ([personal profile] james_davis_nicoll) wrote2008-11-27 11:34 pm

Zapped two more spambots in the last two hours

Are there a lot of them suddenly or am I being targeted?

[identity profile] lpetrazickis.livejournal.com 2008-11-28 04:07 pm (UTC)(link)
From the previous pattern, I think the locus is around your recent addition of [livejournal.com profile] john_rastelli. Those who've accepted his friend request have also accepted friend requests from [livejournal.com profile] midge_eike. I suspected some others, but they look like false positives on my part.

Keeping john_rastelli or any other spambot as a friend makes you as a target.

I'm using the old TouchGraph LJ Browser for some of this diagnosis.

[identity profile] james-nicoll.livejournal.com 2008-11-28 04:13 pm (UTC)(link)
Must have been midge_eike because I had not friended john_rastelli.