I check the Nginx error log file regularly. I noticed that a lot of attempted accesses to favicon.ico coming from mainland China. They come from different IP addresses and with different User Agents. Each of these IPs is only doing this, sometimes repeatedly. They are just waste my server’s timeContinue Reading
Here is a notes for Email Server Settings. It is not just for Email server. It is mainly for DNS setting for Email server. The purpose of it is to prevent from your outgoing email into spam box. I have a web page, which use PHPMailer to send email. TheContinue Reading
By default all links posted in the comments under your articles are turned by WordpPress into links. Unfortunately, this features encourages spammers to post many unwanted comments in your blog. To disable turning URLs from comments into actual links, go to your admin area and then navigate to Appearance ->Continue Reading
MovableType has commenting system, but it is not good. Most of time, thousand spam is sitting in the blog await the owner to delete them. If there are many thousands spams, it is hard to delete them in a short command. My experience is to use phpMyadmin to delete them.Continue Reading
You may be tired of deleting spams or spammer account from your site. Sometimes your site is in the list of spammer. And also most of time the spammer are coming from the following top 10 countries. 1. Korea 2. China 3. India 4. Russia 5. Turkey 6. Viet NamContinue Reading
I saw a very strange comment in this blog, which is hold for review.Continue Reading
reCAPTCHA is better than MT native captcha image. reCAPTCHA is not only the a program that can tell whether its user is a human or a computer, but also let users help to recognize the scanned document. More details about the theory of reCAPTCHA. MovableType 4.1 has an native CAPTCHAContinue Reading
As I mentioned before, I install a Spamwords 1.1.3 plugin on PHPBB 2.0.22. After about one and half month use, I feel it is so good to provent lots of spam from displaying on my G2Soft Support forum. It is like a Wall to protect the phpbb. The spammer isContinue Reading
SixApart announce an update of the default plugin Spamlookup It is a manual update. The steps as below: 1. Login to Movable Type. (Your account will need to have System Administrator privileges.) 2. Click on the “Plugins” link in the main navigation on the left hand side. 3. Look forContinue Reading
I have posted Fight against Spam, Spammer and Bots on PHPBB forum system. I have Humanizer mod for PHPBB, and Hide User’s WebSite Button 1.0.3 on my forum to protect against spam. Now I feel it is not enough. I clean the spam every day. I found this one SpamWords.Continue Reading
Create a Forum, or BBS, is easy for now. But to keep it clean and away from spam is more difficult. To take care of the PHPBB, I use it for G2Soft Supporting Forum, I add some plugins on it. I added Humanizer mod for PHPBB, and Hide User’s WebSiteContinue Reading