Ajay - On the Road called Life!

Following Thilak’s results, I installed Peter’s Custom Anti-Spam Image Plugin for Wordpress to test.
I’m much against the idea of using Captcha for my blog, because of the problems with accessibility. However, of late I have been getting a lot of spam.
Even though Bad Behavior has blocked 10000+ access attempts in the last seven days, a [...]

After having thought about it a while I’ve decided to use Google Apps for Your Domain for AjayDSouza.com.
I have already been using Google Apps to manage WebberZone email for a while now, and now AjayDSouza.com
What this means is now I have a 2Gb Email account, which has all the features of Gmail (which [...]

I’ve been receiving a few reports lately about users having problem while writing comments on this blog.
These problems have been of two kind.
First being your comments landing in the spam bin. I am not sure why this has been happening. Also, it has been rare.
I’ve been going through the Spam comments anyway to check if [...]

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 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.
digg_url = ‘http://digg.com/security/A_Comprehensive_Guide_to_Protecting_Your_Blog_from_Spam’;
Spam cannot be stopped. But by following a few good steps you can protect yourself from it.
This tutorial will teach [...]

I have just released the Bad Behavior Stats plugin v2.1
Updates since the last release.

Link to Bad Behavior homepage fixed
Title attributes added to the BBStats and Bad Behavior Links
New variable %totalcount% added for displaying total number of access attempts if verbose logging is enabled.
Now, admin functions and wp-dash functions are only declared if on the admin [...]

I have just released the Bad Behavior Stats plugin v2.0
Updates since the last release.

Plugin now works with Bad Behavior 1.x and 2.x
Only counts the number of blocked attempts.
Number of blocked attempts can now be viewed under Options >> BB Stats as well.
Few miscellaneous fixes

Read more and download the plugin>>