BT’s Bad Phorm
Posted on March 5th, 2008 by Brian
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This is the weblog of Brian Curd. A lot of it is written on the spur of the moment and any benefit you gain from it is worth exactly what you paid!
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Phorm, an opinion
Posted on March 3rd, 2008 by Brian
Garan has beaten me to it with a recent posting on his blog. He writes about some very important news for the majority of UK internet users.
If you want the internet to remain the relatively open and free place it is today and you want your browsing habits to remain personal, I suggest you read [...]
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Filed under: Hardware, Hosting, Scams, Search Engines, Software, Spam, Techie
Wordpress User Registration
Posted on February 27th, 2008 by Brian
Over the past few days I have seen about 20 “people” try to register with this blog - I’m not really sure why. “They” all seem to come from Poland, which in itself isn’t a problem, but I don’t know anyone Polish I don’t think!
A little further investigation reveals that there seems to be no [...]
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Filed under: Software, Spam, Techie
Family Forum back up and running
Posted on February 1st, 2008 by Brian
After months of spam abuse I had to take down the Curd family forum . Seems phpBB is just too open to abuse and requires constant tweaking and attention to keep running.
I have now switched to another system and am hoping it won’t be such an “open target”, we’ll see..
Check it out at www.curdfamily.com/bbs.
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Filed under: DNA, Family, Genealogy, Hobbies, Software, Spam, Techie
Defeating Wordpress Spam Registrations
Posted on November 8th, 2007 by Brian
For some time I have been bugged by the spambots registering as users on this blog. So far it seems pretty easy for them to get through the basic defences which are built in, however, help may be at hand!
Paul Marek has written about the problem and seems to have found an answer via the [...]
Spam count over
Posted on May 4th, 2007 by Brian
After 100 days of recording spam statistics I have today stopped updating the graph. There’s not a lot of point continuing with it as the levels seem to have flattened out and, while the average is dropping slowly - about 1 per week, the downward slope is so shallow that it will be about 9 [...]
Latest Wordpress
Posted on April 11th, 2007 by Brian
I upgraded to Wordpress 2.1.3 on April 3rd and, so far, all is good. The main thing I have noticed is the lack of attempted comment spam posting.
Over there in the right hand toolbar is a little Akismet counter, it’s been sitting on the same number (1064) since the day I upgraded - seems like [...]
Spam still going down
Posted on March 19th, 2007 by Brian
Email spam reaching my Inbox is still dropping nicely - so far today it’s only reached the dizzy heights of 6!
If only I could say the same of Wordpress comment spam. That’s the stuff being caught by Akismet, over there on the right - in the last couple of days I’ve seen a dramatic increase [...]
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Filed under: Spam
Spam Tracking
Posted on March 12th, 2007 by Brian
As you may know from earlier posts, I have been keeping tabs on spam email recently. The chart below is made from the data I have collected so far.
The lines on the chart show the daily intake (blue line) and the rolling average (green). As you can no doubt see, after a period of increasing [...]
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Filed under: Spam
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