2 days ago I got a bit surprised when I check my guestbook, I saw spam inside there and filled up the first 5 entries. Because of I using Joomla for this content, usually I can delete it through my back-end but I got nothing. I don't have any experience about this issue, but I must to fixed it up as soon as possible, it was annoying me and most of the people which are read my blog. I have a certain thought that all the system stores in the database, and I check my database and try to find out the component for that particular guestbook. It takes 2 minutes and I got my guestbook normal again and running smoothly.

What I worry about is how they can easily access into my guestbook, I have to find out the issue. After a while I found the problem, I thought that my guestbook run without security code or what we called captcha for adding a new entry. I forgot to enabled it. First time I build the website and first time I got the spam inside my blog. I know this is a beginning from such of annoying stuff like that.

Furthermore, what is guestbook spam actually, I quote an article from phpjunkyard, it says guestbook spam is simply a phrase for advertising messages that people submit in your guestbook. Spammers submit the same message with the link to their website in numerous guestbooks hoping for some clicks and links indexed by search engines. You can recognize spam by completely irrelevant, general or promotion messages always accompanied by URL of a website.

Spam usually use a software that automatically submits their messages to hundreads of guestbooks. They never actually open or look at your website, only the software sends their spam to your guestbook script.

Thank's spammers, nice to meet you. Hope NOT to see you again!