I have a poorly maintained site that has got a lot of spam buildup. I had some luck with Custom Filters to weed out batches of spam content (forums and comments, primarily) but it seems to be running out of juice. For instance, if I search for "tramadol" in the drupal search box, I get four pages of results that use the word in both title and content. If I create a custom filter it catches nothing:

Here's what I've tried:

/tramadol/i	regex	everything
Tramadol	text	everything
tramadol	text	everything

In each case, hitting "scan" turns up no results. This behavior isn't limited to one word.

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amanda’s picture

amanda commented

Note: I was seeing this behavior in 4.7 as well, and upgraded to 5.2 in the hopes that it would solve itself.

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jeremy commented

That seems odd.

Do you see any errors in the watchdog, or in the apache error_log?

Perhaps the word is spelled with strange characters? ie, @ instead of a, or with hidden control characters? Try cutting and pasting the text from one of the known instances.

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jeremy commented
Status: Active » Fixed

No further feedback, closing.

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(not verified) commented
Status: Fixed » Closed (fixed)

Automatically closed -- issue fixed for two weeks with no activity.