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New exploit, no, there can't be more, yep, a spambot or individual spammer is spamming the Email Chess Game form, unbelievable, the links do not even display on the site, only in a file on the server, I delete the files and the next day or so, spammed again, shakes head, sooooooooo I had to write a script and added it to the chess board script, to limit what could be inputted onto the form. I also remove the Old Calendar, old script and the upgraded version is no longer free-90-free, so to stop the script from being Hacked, I removed it for security reasons. Looking for an alternative calendar that is free and users can input special events, like my anniversary, dang I miss that calendar, dates ya I remember, oops forgot dear, ouch, anyway's, Thanks Spammers, you ever thought about Golf or maybe some kind of legitimate line of work. For now I have a noninput calendar, oh well, at least we will know what day it is. At the rate this page is growing, I may have to do the page 1 2 3 4 link thing. 3:02 AM 8/26/2006 Spammer 1 Mike 0, hmm, spammer person was able to post the links, not from the form though, hmm, remote form perhaps, well next strategy, guess the new file names spammer!

5:30 pm 8/26/2006 New exploit from referrer spambots. Now they are putting website addresses in their fake referrer information, (yes I know referrer has 2 fs, but it has become the standard in regards to spamming). They are actually putting in real website addresses they always have an address, these are not redirected or hopping from one to another, they go right to the site, anyway's it seems, to be the address, there is a popup window behind them, maybe they are hijacked pages of sites. Most are now about car insurance, what next, the web is changing because of a few bad apples, you will have to jump through a lot of hoops to be able interact with a website. Even though on my site access on folders they are trying to access is forbidden, they still just keep pounding on the door, their bots are wasting precious time, trying to access information that no longer exists, do the words, Hey Stupid, Hellooo, your bots can not get to those files anymore, move on to an easier target, jeepers creepers, duh! So the saga continues, if you run across spam links on a website, please do not click on them, you will be rewarding these people by clicking the link or should I say multiple links, if we all work together, maybe we can make it unprofitable to spam. Cheers!

8/31/2006 All is quiet, shhh, whispering, they are still banging on the door *hear them lol* seriously, no new exploits, WOOT, lol. Well maybe now I can try reinstalling the Message Board, the only draw back would be, that in order to keep them off the messages, the board would have to be a completely private message board and to be truthful, I do not think I have that many users that would be interested in it, if any actually, it is just not that kind of site. The board did have over, if I recall correctly, 1500 post about computer help questions, that is a lot, but that was with a public posting open type board, which would be spammed to death now. Even a just plain old auto registration type board would get spammed, I would like to use Discus again, so I can reinstall all of the old post, but they are still trying to figure out how to combat these spammers, they have added captcha, but the message data bases are still accessible to the spambots unfortunately, unless you go with the private forum. Heck the Guestbook/Message board I have up right now, no one has used, I think most people have converted to XP or Linux and to be honest, XP runs pretty much trouble free, good job MS : ). Once you have XP tweaked the way you want and for how you use it, it just purrs like a kitten. Just do not forget to run Scandisk and Defrag every so often. I would have put this on my Blog, but lol, when I enable users to make comments, yep! spammer time. I really wonder why the ISPs do not somehow, disallow changing the referrer headers, so these spammers could be tracked or at least be suspicious of a WHOLE lot of activity from a user, I know some of the spammers have their own servers and are working out of open machines (they dropped a worm on some persons computer) and then spam from those computers. You know what that means, use antivirus software, if you can't afford it, use AGV free addition it is running on my wife's computer and have had O problems with it and run Adaware free-90-free to, it will get rid of the spyware. Well enough of my babbling, Happy Computing : )

09/10/2006 All is quiet on the spammer front, they are still pounding on the door, wasting time, but otherwise quiet. : )

09/23/2006 Still no attacks on anything on the website, still pounding on the door, but are Forbidden Access. They have now switched to Home Insurance, they just do not give up.

10/15/2006 Still quiet, still hitting the Old Message Board folder and they are still denied access, I am beginning to think that the Spammer is a little short in the brains department, the spambot is wasting time trying to access those files, apparently it does not log the fact that it is receiving a 403 Error or the spammer is just trying to use up my Bandwidth.

11/12/2006 They are still trying to access the one folder and are still denied access. My error log files are filled with these error requests, it really makes no sense to me why they continue to slam that folder, the latest log file had 1253 403 denials to that folder they went from [Sun Nov 12 05:27:19 2006] [error] to [Sun Nov 12 19:12:38 2006] [error] oh well, I guess spam and spambots are here to stay and will probably never go away.

05/27/07 They have finally stopped trying to access the message board folder, has been quiet for a long time (mike knocks on wood table).

10/01/2009 I moved to a new web hosting company on 04/2008 and they are really good Branzone support is second to none, they have antivirus and a spam filter setup at the server level which really cuts down on spam and viruses getting into my mail box. They also are very aggressive with thier firewall to block spammers getting to thier clients sites. I have not been bothered by any spammers or hackers for a while now ( knocks on wood ) but then I have aggressively locked down all input scripts on my site. On my Forum they use ReCAPYCHA which has 2 words that need to be inputed, seems to work good, but I also ask another question. I also use different names for folders and files like "akdunche" and do not have them indexed by the search engines. I also only have links to them in a Java Menu which are not scanned by bots. To keep track of passwords and names for password protected folders, Mysql data bases, Bank Accts, etc, I use Password Safe it will generate very secure passwords for me and I only need to remember one. You can also put a link to a login page and the safe will open the page for you. Another great thing about it is that I have it on a USB Flash Drive so nothing is on my computer and I can access it from any computer that has a USB port. You can check it out here PassWord Safe.

If all of a sudden the website goes down and then a few seconds later, poof, back up again, it is only me adding something new to my htaccess file and oops! I coded it wrong, Sorry :- (

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