June 04, 2006

I had a few of those too. From what I read, it seems to be spam meant to act like a pseudo-virus and see what kind of spam protection you have. It can't hurt your computer like a typical virus though...it's looking for weaknesses in your website's spam fighting abilities.

I agree with Chablis. I don't have a blog, but I did a Google search, and it looks like this is some kind of a bot, probing your defenses. Yours seem to be working better than many. I saw many blogs with the comment section choked with "Blog Verification" messages.

It serves as a tracker so other computers can search for that number and send spam.

If you are running any kind of spam blocker, try putting this in your Block Wordlist:

/\b\d{6}\b/

There are also five-digit trackers using the names similar to C--rtney Gi--ts and Betsy Mar-k-am

These use this:

/\b\d{5}\b/

This is computer juju that searches for a string of five or six digits and blocks it.