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stop people from linking my images? I have some images on a site of mine hosted on TextDrive, and there are people stealing my bandwidth by linking the images into forum posts, their websites, etc. I should be able to stop this through some sort of...

... SPAM and virus check email and then forward it to another domain? I presently have my email 'rewritten' to my home domain, i.e. all email to mydomain.com is sent using the mail forwarding to 'same mailbox in' home.mydomain.com. My question is: h...

Insane amount of Comment Spam.. So, this guy keeps posting video poker spam... but here's the catch, every single one has a different IP... how's he doing it? The all look like this, but with different IPs Author : Video Poker (IP: 148.223.48.226 ,...

Spamassassin for Dummies I've read through all the posts, etc for setting up spamassassin, but I can't seem to get a grip on it. So I'd like to request a "Spamassassin for Dummies". The spamassassin funtion in the usermin was a big help, but I'm sti...

mod_auth_db OK... so if I would like to use the above method for storing $username $password combinations I need to configure all that stuff in ACCESS CONTROL in my public_html directory of webmin? This (http://httpd.apache.org/docs/howto/auth.html)...

Comment Spam In the last few minutes my most recent post on my Textpattern driven site received 7 comment spams. Mostly to do with Viagra, they had normal though irrelevant text and they all came with this email address: blueriging@platform.com Acco...

Attrocious amount of spam from multicare.org I'm getting a bunch of spam that has these headers... every sender is @ a popular domain (oreilly, etc). All sent through multicare.org. From: jim@nero.com Subject: Hi! Date: November 17, 2004 2:49:25 AM...

mod_security to block comments based on keyword Recently I got a bunch of comment spam, and despite Wordpress having a built in word-blacklisting feature, I still had to delete the comments from the database. Why not stop them before they get anywhe...

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A 10 minute-old illustration of the problem So there was 5-10 thing going on with everything on barclay and then they turned their sites on one. Recent addition to mod_security SecFilterSelective "REMOTE_ADDR" "^216.195.32.244$" "deny,log,status:412...

mod_security to block comments based on keyword Recently I got a bunch of comment spam, and despite Wordpress having a built in word-blacklisting feature, I still had to delete the comments from the database. Why not stop them before they get anywhe...

scp: Possible Breakin Attempt! ? So, I'm not sure why this happened, perhaps someone more knowledgeable can explain it. In one window, I'm running an SSH session with one.textdrive.com, editing a file. In another window, I started an scp to copy a f...

Mail.app : Disabling Return Receipts? I've recently started using Mail.app, which has been nice so far, but I've noticed something that disturbs me a bit. It seems the application automatically honors return receipts, which I'd rather it not do. I'v...

Degunking Your Email, Spam, and Viruses I want to highly recommended this book for anyone who feels like they need a start http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/193211193X/ Offline #2 2004-12-01 15:22:33 Ray VC200 i help keep this place goin' Registered: 2...

mod_security rule generator I've made a mod_security rule generator. I'm not very good at JavaScript, but I tried. Here it is: http://leavesrustle.com/tools/modsecurity/...

SunTrust spam I just got a very authentic-looking email, ostensibly from SunTrust, saying that my account info had been compromised, and I should log on to fix it. Everything except the link target looked on the level. The href code in the link, how...

mod_security to block referrers I see a ton of referrer log entries from thorcarlson.com and valeofglamorganconservatives.org -- can I block these and other annoying referrers using mod_security? Is there a centralized blacklist that we can hook int...

Out of control spam I need some help from the good TextDrive folks. Since Monday I have received over 3500 SPAM email messages. Most are not sent to me, but they "look" like they are sent from someone @ecrosstexas.com and are being bounced back for...

MT Comment Spam - mod_security hates me. For the second time in as many months, I'm starting to get hammered with comment spam - our good friend, online-poker-whatever. The first time around, after watching helplessly while the count climbed past 80...

FairUCE? Anyone know anything about FairUCE? Supposedly FairUCE (which stands for "Fair use of Unsolicited Commercial Email") is a spam filter that stops spam by verifying sender identity instead of filtering content. Just wondering if anyone's trie...

ICANN and new .tld's Great. From the recent sounds coming from the TextDrive spam hunters mailing list, these new .mobi and .jobs domains will be prime targets for spammers to attack from. With any luck, sarcasmthey'll put on the "first year free" d...

PHP Vulnerabilities http://developers.slashdot.org/developers/04/12/17/1641212.shtml?tid=169tid=172 Does that affect us? Offline #2 2004-12-17 18:33:31 jason a chief (i started this place) From: San Francisco Registered: 2004-06-01 Posts: 8664 Websi...

PGP Global Directory Cool. They sent a very polite email announcing their beta....

My temporary solution to comment spam Blog This'll be pretty much the state of my blog for the time being. In actuality I'm still trying to figure out what software I want to switch to (coming from Blogger then MT) when I do resurrect my blog--but a...

Looking at rejected e-mail; Disabling outright? I just got a report from my sister, who uses webmail at textdrive, that several of her friends and teachers aren't able to send her mail. I'm not sure what to look for, but my first thought was overzea...

New worm in the wild? I've seen this all over the 'net today. Does anyone know what worm it is and what holes it attacks? Offline #2 2004-12-21 15:58:06 Echo Member From: Sweden Registered: 2004-06-01 Posts: 169 Website Expertise Re: New worm in the...

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SpamAssassin: Bouncing e-mail obviously? I'd like to bounce all mail from a particular address back to the sender, so the sender is aware that the mail was bounced on purpose. I was going to set up the address in the SpamAssassin "Denied Addresses"...

Interesting solution to comment spam Doubt it's very effective, but this is the first such harshly-worded notice I've found. Wonder if it would be enforceable? http://www.eire.com/blogarchives/000164.html I have seem the WP plugin that allows spamme...

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