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yellowikis at gmail

Oct 23, 2005, 1:40 PM

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Spam Attack

I seem to have some sort of spam attack that is adding the following
tag to multiple pages.

Anyone know what it might do?

<div id="wiki6467" style="overflow:auto; height: 1px; "></div>

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kelly at acoin

Oct 23, 2005, 2:43 PM

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Re: Spam Attack [In reply to]

It would appear to be the first step to something else...

The height:1px means that the text it inserted would be nearly invisible.

The only thing I can think of is that they'll come back later, and
put a link to a site inside the <div> to up their reference count in
an attempt to get higher placement in a Google search.

Of course, it could be something entirely different. But you won't
SEE anything.

-Kelly

At 02:40 PM 10/23/2005, you wrote:

>I seem to have some sort of spam attack that is adding the following
>tag to multiple pages.
>
>Anyone know what it might do?
>
><div id="wiki6467" style="overflow:auto; height: 1px; "></div>
>
>Paul
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beesley at gmail

Oct 23, 2005, 3:17 PM

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Re: Spam Attack [In reply to]

On 10/23/05, admin Yellowikis <yellowikis [at] gmail> wrote:
> I seem to have some sort of spam attack that is adding the following
> tag to multiple pages.
>
> Anyone know what it might do?
>
> <div id="wiki6467" style="overflow:auto; height: 1px; "></div>

This is the wrong mailing list. Please see mediawiki-l, where the
issue has already been reported. The spam started with <div
id="wikitikitavi...", but now is using other ID names, mostly starting
with <div id="wiki...".

<http://mail.wikipedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-l/2005-October/007400.html>

Using $wgSpamRegex to block <div id="wiki might help. I've not tried
it myself yet.

Angela.
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node.ue at gmail

Oct 23, 2005, 3:34 PM

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Re: Spam Attack [In reply to]

WikiTikiTavi attacks occured on many Wikipedias, as a matter of fact.

Mark

On 23/10/05, Angela <beesley [at] gmail> wrote:
> On 10/23/05, admin Yellowikis <yellowikis [at] gmail> wrote:
> > I seem to have some sort of spam attack that is adding the following
> > tag to multiple pages.
> >
> > Anyone know what it might do?
> >
> > <div id="wiki6467" style="overflow:auto; height: 1px; "></div>
>
> This is the wrong mailing list. Please see mediawiki-l, where the
> issue has already been reported. The spam started with <div
> id="wikitikitavi...", but now is using other ID names, mostly starting
> with <div id="wiki...".
>
> <http://mail.wikipedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-l/2005-October/007400.html>
>
> Using $wgSpamRegex to block <div id="wiki might help. I've not tried
> it myself yet.
>
> Angela.
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the.gray at gmx

Oct 23, 2005, 3:40 PM

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Re: Spam Attack [In reply to]

On Monday 24 October 2005 00:34, Mark Williamson wrote:
> WikiTikiTavi attacks occured on many Wikipedias, as a matter of fact.

it occured on a lot of wikis not using mediawiki,
too. seems to work cross-wikiengine.

daniel
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