Ajay - On the Road called Life!

It was waiting to happen and it has.
Regular readers would have read a few rants about my internet connection.
I have a “broadband” connection with Exatt.
It works using PPPOE and am assigned a dynamic IP everytime I login.
That is fine, but of late I have been noticing that the IP Addresses are all blacklisted in Spam [...]

I have faced a good deal of problem with sploggers.
While I had one who just stole every post of mine, another kept picking up all my posts because it had the content “copyright”!
And that is because my feeds include a copyright notice.
Owen has released a new plugin title AntiLeech which helps fight sploggers.
AntiLeech does not [...]

I have seen a lot of emails from African scamsters and most of these usually land up in my Bulk box.
Today, my dad today received a similar scam email. However, what was surprising was the nature of it’s customization.
Firstly, the subject of the email addressed my dad by his first name.
Secondly, my Dad is in [...]

I had realized that a site CrazyFactor.com run by John Comokaz has been scraping my RSS feed for quite a while and publishing the content as his own.
He has been using a software by Elliot Back for this purpose.
I got a notification from a visitor that John is now trying to sell off CrazyFactor on [...]

While I do have Bad Behavior and Spam Karma 2 running, I have always wondered on how to track down and stop spammers.
I asked Spamhuntress on how she finds spammers by going through her site logs and she was kind enough to write a detailed article on how to.
I too admit the entire procedure is [...]

Blog spam is something that every blogger fears. Spam appears in different forms. It can vary from trackback or pingback spam, comment spam, deliberate harsh comments to email harvesting and spam resulting from it.
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Spam cannot be stopped. But by following a few good [...]

Have been getting a lot comment and trackback spam both on this blog as well as the blog of my friend Melody.
My blog is powered by WordPress, but I have b2evolution running for her.
Have added a lot of spam words to her block list of b2evo and it seems to have currently stopped. I guess [...]