Hack and Secure

Even though this topic may not be new to many WordPress admins, I am putting here to help whoever wants to identify type of SPAM in their WordPress blog and how to control it.

Had reported early in my post (Disabling WordPress Commenting still allows SPAMMERS to Comment) about lots of spam issue in our blog and I even disabled ‘Comments’ option but it has not really helped me to control even 1% of SPAM.

I was so curious to see what was really SPAMMING.

1. Identified the Public IP of a SPAM post (you can easily find this on all SPAM posts)
2. From kStats, I did a search for that Public IP and you can see below image that specific SPAM is actually TRACKBACK (trackback is to identify if someone is linking to our article)
3. I continued doing this search for random SPAM posts and finally found that all those SPAM posts are actually TRACKBACK 
   

Then I found an article – Disable Trackbacks and followed their instruction to disable trackback. So as of now I am free from SPAM and put back ‘Comment’ for this blog. You can freely Comment now.

If we double click on the drive, an error pops up and says “Incorrect function”.

Solution:

• Uninstalling InCD didn’t solve the issue.
  
• As per solution below,
  

http://www.duxcw.com/yabbse/index.php?board=5;action=display;threadid=6227

1. Right click on CD Drive
   
2. Choose Properties
   
3. Choose Recording Tab
   
4. Check the option “Enable CD Recording On This Drive”
   
5. Apply all settings.
   

The drive worked now.

All of a sudden, we are facing lots of Spams in this blog; somehow SPAMMERS have found a way to bypass our CAPTCHA. I tried even upto extreme way of disabling ‘Comments’ option in this blog (I followed How to disable comments in WordPress), but still no luck,I am cleaning up Spams every day. I am not sure how SPAMMERS are able to comment even while ‘Comment’ option is totally blocked in this blog. 

What I did actually to disable WordPress Comments:

• Disabled WordPress Comments by default

• Disabled comments for all posts

• Disabled XML-RPC in Remote Publishing found under Writing < Settings

iExplorer, formerly called iPhone Explorer, lets you use your iPhone or iPad as flash drive.

http://www.macroplant.com/iexplorer/

Every one has their own choice for their mobile. But i write here to discuss on their differences for business use and let users decide.

Why Blackberry?

1.Battery Life
IPhone has a much shorter battery life (not even 12 hours with 3G) than Blackberry.

2.Change of Email Password is not an issue in Blackberry Whenever email password is changed, it has to be manually updated in iPhone and Samsung to continue receiving emails.
If the user is away from office and his email password is expired, then he has to set a new password using OWA (Outlook Web Access) and manually update it in iPhone and Samsung to continue receiving emails.

3.Meeting Request
Even if you have already accepted or declined a meeting request through your desktop outlook, iPhone still shows you option to accept or decline a meeting as if you have not responded to the meeting. IPhone doesn’t allow adding comments to accept or deny meeting requests.

4.Blinking red light is the best notification system for email It’s not easy to say when you have new email in iPhone.

5.Typing keyboard is so easy to write emails compared to virtual keyboards. Auto correction is really annoying in iPhone

6.Sent Folder
The Sent Folder in iPhone is not synched in real time, so you have to wait for the server to find if important business email is sent or not.

7.Security Corporate Blackberry policy can be established If Blackberry is stolen or lost, data theft can be avoided by remote wipe feature.

8.Fixed cost
iPhone and Samsung uses GPRS to download emails, so the internet cost would be dependent on email size download, whereas blackberry service cost is fixed irrespective of size of email downloads

9.Blackberry Messenger

Why iPhone and Samsung?

1.No need for Blackberry Enterprise Server Emails are downloaded through GPRS. If Wi-Fi is available, emails can be downloaded at no cost. 2.Attachment files are more readable than in Blackberry
3.Pinch-to-zoom and high resolution screen.