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8 Steps to clean a hacked WordPress blog

It takes a lot to clean up a hacked blog. This article explains what’s involved.

Can we evade the good cause pressgangs?

Just because you’re a ‘good cause’ doesn’t mean I want you to solicit me by phone at dinnertime or send a stream of email messages.

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Use knowledge to defend against Spam

What you should know about spam on the Internet and how to deal with it.

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Kiwi spammer collects huge fine

Law enforcement caught up with one spammer, and now he has to pay.

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Ban commenters by IP address on your WordPress blog

Blacklist repeat spammers on a WordPress blog.

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Use a whitelist to receive emails more reliably

Set up a ‘whitelist’, also known as an ‘approved senders’ or ‘friends’ list. That’s a list of trusted addresses or domains that are allowed a free pass to certain emails.

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Do not Mail; Do not Call

Courtesy of my accountant’s newsletter, two incredibly useful URLs for New Zealanders:

NZ Marketing Association Do not Mail Request
NZ Marketing Association Do Not Call Request

Keep that infuriating junk mail out of your letterbox, and stop those rotten solicitous phonecalls.
Note: these do not mail / call lists are only used by organisations that are [...]

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Flickr’s an excellent service. I don’t actually use it much because I have my photos at Oddity59, but I have a handful of photos there.
Occasionally someone I know comes across my photos there and adds me as a contact.
Yesterday, though, someone I’d never heard of added me as a contact [...]

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Kiwi spammer confesses

It’s very embarrassing for Kiwis that we have big-time spammers amongst us, but the tail end of this news item is a delight [my emphasis]:
Court action is being taken over what NZ and US officials are calling one of the biggest spam email operations in the world.
Three Christchurch men have been named [...]

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I’m being back-scattered

I opened my email this morning to find dozens of spams trapped by Google’s spam filter and dozens more by the Postini spam filtering service.
Over the last 12 hours or so I’ve received about 400 or 500 emails ‘bounced’ from emails purporting to have been sent out by me.
Apparently my sender names (all [...]

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