Kill Auto Spam Now!

December 27, 2009

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Kill Auto Spam Now!

I have written about spam many times in the past and I had read about the Bad Behavior plugin stopping auto spam. So I finally decided to give it a try a few months back and it did a great job. Spam comments were reduced from 350 a day down to about 15. I was thrilled.

Then I noticed that a new version had just come out so I happily upgraded. Well, there must have been some weakness with the upgrade because I was flooded with large volumes of spam from three specific email addresses. These folks found a weakness and were exploiting it while they could. As you might imagine I was not happy.

Then, About a week ago I had read about this great WP blog and web host. I checked out the site and was very impressed so much so that I hired him to secure our site. The gentleman’s name is  John of  WpBlog Host. We needed a security upgrades since the site had been recently hacked. So this so an easy decision for us, especially since our developer seemed to lack interest in securing the blog. He’s a great guy but he is not a WP expert.

As it turns out Bad Behavior was experiencing some of its own bad behavior and would not work. John replaced it with another program called Tan Tan Noodles. Now, I had read some great reviews on this plugin.Yet,  I didn’t take it seriously because of its name. Wow, what a mistake that was.

This plugin has reduced spam to zero! That’s right zero auto spam! I haven’t seen any spam during the entire week that it has been on the blog. Yes, it’s that good. Now, if you want to lock down the security of your blog I would recommend using John.

I have been blogging for over two years and I had learned to loathe auto spam. Now, that the spam is gone I find that I am experiencing spam withdrawals. If you think about it, it make sense,  For over two years part of my day involved cleaning out the spam filter and cursing to myself as I did it. That part of my day is gone.

It a very strange feeling to check for spam and not to find any. I had got so accustomed to spam that it had become part of my daily routine. It sounds so funny to say I’m going through spam withdrawals, but I am.

As for the security upgrades I am reluctant to go into specific details of how we are protecting WordPress as I don’t want hackers to be able to know what we have done and then exploit it. What I can say is that he removed all references to WP in our files and added some plugins. What he essentially accomplished was to add several layers of protection for our website.

What really separates John from the crowd is that he made a video of what he did and how he did it while he was doing it on my site. He didn’t settle for a generic demo video. This video was unique to your website.

He does all of this for about $50.00. When I explained everything that we did to my web developer he asked “How does he make any money?” I stated that I believe he does it not so much for the money but for the love of blogging and more specifically for his passion for WordPress. My developer is a billable hour’s kind of guy and he just didn’t get the passion part.

I want to also again thank Barbara Swafford of Blogging Without A Blog for bringing John to my attention. John also offers hosting and his site has lots of great tutorials. So please do go visit John and Barbara blogs, leave some great comments, and tell me that we sent you there.

I really do enjoy finding great resources and sharing them with you,  my readers.

Isn’t it time that you quit talking about blog security and do something Now!

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