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Comments With Links To Chinese IP Addresses

I received several blog comments overnight that included links to Chinese IP addresses. All of them were in perfect English. Some were complimentary, some were insulting.
While they were quite comprehensive, none of them had anything to do with the content of the blog post.
Therefore all of them were spam. I also suspect that the links [...]

Email Problem On My Web Server, Part 1

Last night I was working on updating a web site that I’ve neglected for quite some time. While working on it, I noticed that the links on that site’s blog were redirecting to a domain that had hosted my redirects at one point, but I later decided to use it for something else and deleted [...]

JVAlert: Skip The Lecture, Let’s Make A Product!

Here’s an email I just sent as a test to a couple of safelists. It was sent to a total of 10,000 opt-in email recipients; I’m curious as to how many sales it will generate.
I don’t have a lot of faith in safelists, but I have made a few dollars from them by promoting quality [...]

The Warrior Forum Hack: My Analysis

There has been news floating around that The Warrior Forum (a popular forum for online entrepreneurs and a lot of people who want to try to make money online) was hacked. I decided to look into it.
First, I logged in to the forum and could find no posts that would indicate that the forum had [...]

Take Action TODAY To Protect Your Website Logs

My cPanel configuration gives me the option to save my websites’ raw action logs at the end of every month. It saves them in a folder in a non-publicly accessible part of my web server.
Setting this up is quite simple; you simply log in to your cPanel, click on the “Raw Access Logs” link, and [...]

One Way To Better Protect Your Website’s Files

I’m a member over at The Internet Marketing Inner Circle (TIMIC), which was created and is run by Willie Crawford. I help Willie moderate the forum and he’s become a good friend and mentor over the past couple of years.
Willie, Will Bontrager, and Patrick Pretty — all TIMIC members — got together to create and [...]

Last Night’s Teleseminar

The teleseminar with Willie Crawford went, in my opinion, quite well. We covered a lot of ground and discussed a lot of things.
If you weren’t able to attend the teleseminar live, I’m working with Willie to make the recording available.
If you have already subscribed to my blog announcement list, you received a link to the [...]

Free Computer Security Teleseminar With Willie Crawford — TODAY!

Willie Crawford will be interviewing me TODAY (Wednesday, January 16, 2007) at 5:00 PM Eastern Standard Time. The topic will be computer and website security.
This is a free call (long distance charges apply); we are not charging for access to the call.
To register and get the call details, go to the following link:
http://therealsecrets.com/ComputerSecurity/.
Hope to be [...]