[pmwiki-users] Site Defacement

[Pico]

Jason Frisvold <xenophage0 <at> gmail.com> writes:

> 
> I just tried to visit the pmwiki homepage and the front page was
> defaced with an ad for ringtones...  I restored the original look, but
> thought I might let you know it happened.
> 
> Is there any mechanism in place to prevent such spamming?
> 


Thanks.  This particular spammer hit alot of pages in a pretty short period of
time and I restored them and added the ip address, the word "ringtone" and the
domain "alice.it" to the blocklist.  The only block I am concerned about is
ringtone, which could create problems in the future, e.g., if a ringtone feature
is added to a recipe ;-)

For more information on spam prevention on PmWiki.org, take a look at this 
thread:
http://pmichaud.com/pipermail/pmwiki-users/2006-September/033475.html

(Pm has announced plans to do more in this area as well, perhaps the later 
posts in that thread may mention that).

Pico