Gah... spammers have used my domain name again

[Tony]

Here we go again... a few days of bounced emails, out of office replies and not at home messages.

 

It had been so quiet lately too.

[JoeP]

I've been lucky for a while - one of my domains used to get this a lot but recently it seems to have been ignored.

 

What I am surprised with at the moment is the speed with which spammers pick up on Blogs. I pre-moderate all comments but it gets very irritating!

[Tony]

It's the root domain on my ISP so I think it just happens to be my turn rather than a specific domain that somebody has picked up on.

 

I've had about two thousand bounced emails get through to Outlook in the last half hour... I daren't look in the ISP's spam trap.

[scarby]

Don't think mines been "done" yet - touch wood.

 

Stupid kids got nowt better to do.

[JoeP]

Oooh Tony, not nice.

 

Best of luck with it.

[Rich]

Even my blog's been spammed before now, and I know who did it as well, Kirky from the bloody "dark side"!

 

Only he would be retarded enough to spam my games blog and call me a retarded DM reader for reviewing Brain Training on the DS.

[steev]

You can kind of cut down on this by adding an SPF record to your domain's DNS record. It's not used by everyone, but it's the best attempt (so far) at stopping address spoofing at this level, & the more people use it the better the results will be.

 

If you have an spf record then you basically specify which servers (your mail server, web server if any is sent direct from the site, your ISP's mail server if you use that for smtp) genuine mail is sent from, & mail servers which use spf records will ignore spoofed-address spam as it comes from non-authorised sources. My domain has got seriously hammered by this twice now, & the second (with spf) occurrence wasn't quite as painful as the first.

 

AOL use them, it's about the only thing they've ever done right.

[Tony]

Touch wood it seems to be tailing off. Hopefully it will get back to normal shortly.