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Wednesday, December 12, 2007

Create your own spam filter extensions

by Mads Kristensen via .NET Slave on 12/12/2007 6:06:00 PM

My last post about comment spam fighting resulted in a lot of e-mails from readers asking how to create their own spam fighting logic in BlogEngine.NET 1.3. So I decided to show a simple extension that listens for certain bad words and filters on those. If a comment contains one of the predefined words it is considered spam.

The extension


[Extension("Filters comments containing bad words", "1.0", "Mads Kristensen")]

public class BadWordFilter

{

 

  // Constructor

  public BadWordFilter()

  {

    // Add the event handler for the CommentAdded event

    Post.AddingComment += new EventHandler<CancelEventArgs>(Post_AddingComment);

  }

 

  // The collection of bad words

  private static readonly StringCollection BAD_WORDS = AddBadWords();

 

  // Add bad words to the collection

  private static StringCollection AddBadWords()

  {

    StringCollection col = new StringCollection();

    col.Add("VIAGRA");

    col.Add("CASINO");

    col.Add("MORTAGE");

 

    return col;

  }

 

  // Handle the AddingComment event

  private void Post_AddingComment(object sender, CancelEventArgs e)

  {

    Comment comment = (Comment)sender;

    string body = comment.Content.ToUpperInvariant();

 

    // Search for bad words in the comment body

    foreach (string word in BAD_WORDS)

    {

      if (body.Contains(word))

      {

        // Cancel the comment and raise the SpamAttack event

        e.Cancel = true;

        Comment.OnSpamAttack();

        break;

      }

    }

  }

 

}

The problem with an extension that filters based on bad words is that if you have a blog about medicine then Viagra probably isn’t a bad word. Therefore this type of spam fighting is left out of the release, but is offered as a separate download where you are able to define your own bad words.

Download BadWordFilter.zip (743 bytes)

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Original Post: Create your own spam filter extensions

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