I have today managed to add a CAPTCHA image to the Digitalquill Support Ticket system. Over the last month or so I have been struggling with SPAM messages on that ticket system meaning that it has been impossible for me to find genuine support tickets. I have lost count of how many SPAM messages I …
Tag Archive: spam
Sep
07
Catchup On An Month Without Posting
I am ashamed to say it has been over a month since I last posted on this blog. Things round here have been rather busy, although that should not stop me keeping up my blogging. The honest truth is I have become a little disillusioned since the Google Panda update which seems to have had …
Jun
17
Don’t Unsubscribe From Spam Emails
In the interests of saving embarrassment, shall we say ‘A friend’ has just clicked on an unsubscribe link in a SPAM email, and now has an inbox that is gradually filling up with junk… 1000+ emails in less than an hour and those are the ones not caught by the SPAM filters on my Mail …
Mar
02
Can Viral Backlinks Affect Your Seo
We have been looking at Search engine optimisation in the last few posts on this site. I talked about ways of getting back links. It is thought that a sudden influx of back links to your site can damage your standings in the view of the search engines as they may see this being Spammy. …
Mar
02
Spam Bait Posts
We have all heard about link bait posts, but how about SPAM bait posts. The recent post I made ‘Are Nofollow Links Worthless?‘ has attracted a great deal of SPAM. I am unsure why but perhaps there are keywords in there that SPAM bots are picking up on.
Sep
10
Time For A New Web Server
I run several web servers, some dedicated to clients, some dedicated to specific projects I have running, and one for the affiliate projects I run. I also have one dedicated to running my mail server. The latter two have been suffering from numerous malicious attacks. The email server was hacked a couple of months ago …
Sep
06
Suffering Spam Problems
Over the last couple of months I have been struggling to deal with an increased level of SPAM. I run my own mail server (Debian, Postfix, Courier, ClamAV, SpamAssasin). About 2 months ago my server was hacked, at that time all I could find in terms of malicious damage was that the root password had …
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