As I am forced to use a Windows machine for my desktop for support purposes and I develop purely for Linux I have been in a non optimal situation.
I have tried using a remote server, an emulated server running VirtualBox , Dual Booting and using a windows based WAMP stack. Each of these have certain [...]
I have been using greylisting successfully for some time now, however over the last few days a few have been getting through. I am currently testing nolisting on one of my domains but in the meantime I noticed that out of the 10 spam that got through in the last week 8 were from a [...]
I hadn’t used this is a while and needed to change the IP address in a named.conf file. This is not a full tutorial, it’s just a quick and simple howto for search and replace in Vi(m)
Here is the format
I have been using linux for many many years and have always dealt with .tar.gz files. I have never used zip files on linux until today when I needed to unzip some 100 odd theme files for WordPress.
A simple mistake on my part had me scratching my head.
Brian Aker has just done an interview for Barton’s Blog. I hadn’t seen this blog before but the interview itself is very interesting.
For those who don’t know what Drizzle is,
wp-spamfree works and is highly recommended.
At 5am this morning every single one of my articles across 3 blogs got a single spam. each was from a unique IP address (Added to my list here)
It has given me quite a bit of info to assist me in my anti-spam routines. looking to have some results shortly.
I don’t get a lot of comment spam if you just look at the numbers but it does make up over 99.9% of comments so I find it extremely tedious.
This page here has a lot interesting techniques for reducing spam and is worth a read.
I will be developing some additional code to integrate into my [...]
I am now generating a list of all spammers IP’s as found on this blog and my FullTiming blog.
You can find this Here
I have only started this today and will be adding to it periodically. It is not sorted and as the list gets longer there may be duplicates.
I got a server 500 Error when accessing the akismet spam filter. Checking the logs and I could see the error was
ModSecurity: Output filter: Response body too large (over limit of 524288, total not specified)
To correct this edit this file
/etc/httpd/modsecurity.d/modsecurity_crs_10_config.conf
Look for the line
SecResponseBodyLimit 524288
I just added a leading 1 to the number and restarted apache.