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Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: iframe injection problem?I can see a problem at AzzQim’s website. The permission on ‘themes’ folder is possibly set to 755, which makes folder content viewable and downloadable anyone. I see ‘almost-spring’ folder, fh-freedom-blue-01.zip and so forth.
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Add Div to post or pageYou may want to search the forum. I already mentioned how to do it in or before Jan 14.
Forum: Everything else WordPress
In reply to: Blog Attacked?istudio, if your website was idle (not attended) for days or weeks, that’s not an unusual case. We often (once or twice a week) find exploited websites and try to contact the owners. But they are usually out of reach. In many cases, we are obliged to find the hosts to give them kind notifications.
Many victimized websites are not attended or patrolled frequently enough, which makes them targets for exploitation.
How we prevent it… I mention some tips once in a while. I’m not going to mention them. Perhaps, you may want to run search.
Forum: Installing WordPress
In reply to: Video works until I edit post- then video is lostSpam…
Anyway, you need to use ‘more.’
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: How to remove borders and Photo and icon not showing up.For borders, you must have border=”” inside img src tag. Set it to 0. I don’t know about the other problem.
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: How do I require login to view blog?Try using Private posts, which only admin and members can see, I think.
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: “Hacked by Theghost” messageI went to mattcutts.com. I didn’t see any single useful piece of information. This topic is often talked about. I have mentioned some tips several times. You may probably want to search forums for more tips.
Forum: Everything else WordPress
In reply to: Hacked again!What is your WordPress login name – admin?
Forum: Installing WordPress
In reply to: Newbie – Can’t get it to installIf you have File Manager on the server side, you may want to upload the zip version of WP and decompress it there.
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: How do you stop spammer robots from posting???>I got my first spam comments anyway and I was so excited thinking that I had some “real” traffic.
GGGGG… I know what you mean.
It’s no offense to WordPress.org in any way, but this website is crawled by spiders for harvesting blog links. Really. WordPress Japan forums (http://phpbb.xwd.jp) are also visited by spiders. If you post a link to your WP blog at WP JPN, you will have several spam comments with a Russian IP address within a few days. No joke.
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: How do you stop spammer robots from posting???You are welcome.
>You have to have considerable traffic to
Not so much… I don’t check traffic at all, though.
When we were ignorant and naive, they posted spy comments to get accepted. Since then, they have made links to specific posts.
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Site hijacked, permissions wrong? Should be what?755 => content viewable and downloadable to anyone
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: How do you stop spammer robots from posting???In case anybody is interested, the following article shows what happened to livetv-now.com, a spam sponsor, just a few hours ago.
http://seo.mhvt.net/blog/?p=241
I think I can have a sound sleep tonight.
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: How do you stop spammer robots from posting???To Spiewgels,
How?
That’s not difficult to do at all. If we can do it, anyone can do it. There are 2 legal methods of destroying websites. One is the domain bust. The other method is the host bust. I can’t really discuss the domain bust although it’s pretty simple. I can’t because spam criminals could read this post and improve their hiding skills.
As for the host bust, you just go after the sponsoring website hiring the spammer. If the website is hosted on a shared server, chances are that you can follow its nameservers to its web hosting company. If you find it, then just report the case to the hosting company. Some companies will comply with your request. Others don’t. Those companies that condone spam vandalism include IX Web Hosting, GoDaddy.com, FastHost and so forth.
If we try, we can block most spam comments thanks to great anti-spam plugins. There is a simple measure you can take, too. You probably want to watch out for spy comments. One spy comment that we caught a week ago is “I glad too see this interest site, I tell my friends about it! They like sites like that: site.” There are many indications that this is a spy comment. (REF: “spy comments wordpress” at Google)
Finally, instead of sitting back and playing defense, we subscribe to spam comments and learn their patterns. That’s very important. That’s how we caught a website which just started distributing a Trojan virus targeting Mac users yesterday. This way, we destroyed several dozen spam domains last year alone. But our resources are limited. There are so many spam domains because domain companies like GoDaddy.com and ESTDomains sell cheap .info domains. I’m also tired of destroying spam domains. We’ve done enough for all.
Again, there is nothing special. All we do is play offense, not defense, by subscribing to spam posts and going after sponsors. Anyone can do it. After all, I can tell you that deleting or blocking spam comments is just a superficial solution. If you block spam comments, they will simply come back after changing techniques.
Forum: Installing WordPress
In reply to: Help in installing in SQL 2005You are at a wrong place.