Avoiding Spam Comments – Keeping Crooks at Bay

Open up your blog or your site as a whole to comments and you open yourself up to crooks – it’s as simple as that. We’ve all seen millions of examples of bogus comments by now – as in those annoying responses where the party behind it is clearly trying to sell something or infect … Read more

Texas University Publishes Spammer List

Internet security

No one wants to be associated with a website domain or web hosting service (including WordPress hosting) that is prevalent to being hijacked to send spam, and most businesses will factor this into their web hosting provider decisions automatically. In the US, companies have another reason to ensure they are not caught up in spamming.  … Read more

Google Confirm Universal Shutdown Policy On Spam Hosts

Further incentive, should it be needed, for users to keep a close eye on the quality of their web hosting service came this week with the highly unorthodox but seemingly valid confirmation from Google that they can, and will, take action to shut out all of the sites hosted on a particular server if they … Read more