Your Blog Is At War, Help Defend It
Yep, you heard me right. Spammers, hackers, trogans and viruses… it’s a jungle out there. And your blog is a sitting duck.
I have a series of suggestions I will be making over the upcoming days to help you defend this valuable asset in your online marketing arsenal, so stayed tuned. And if you haven’t grabbed the RSS feed yet, this might be a good time…
Wordpress Antivirus
The first recommendation is that you go and install the Antivirus plugin to help keep your beautiful theme files from infecting visitors that land on your site. There is no bigger turn off for a visitor than to have YOUR site infect them.
AntiVirus for WordPress monitors malicious injections and warns you of any possible attacks. With multilingual support. Simply, the plugin you must have.
Ideal as a supplement to the manual security measures in your blogs. Hey, it’s free!
Settings include a manual scan, an auto-scan with email alerts in the effect it find something suspicious.
Download: Wordpress Antivirus here
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About The Author
Cenay Nailor is an Internet, Affiliate and Networking Marketing success coach with mad technical skills she loves sharing with Videos. Visit her video tutorial blog and get some technical help. You should also snag the weekly injection of Tech-Based Marketing Newsletter, and have it sent right to your inbox. (Upper right corner)
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Defend Your Blog: Scan For Vulnerabilities
about 1 month ago - 5 comments
I hate to do it. Tempt the fates that is. After weeks of effort, lost time, missed billables, disappointed clients and frustrated days — I think I am free. Virus free that is.
And even as I am writing this post, I feel a tremor in my loins. A quick check of my site in my FTP program shows a cache directory I didn’t update! Run the file permissions recursed into subfolders and update the .htaccess file to protect the directory. Am I ready? Maybe. Read the rest of Defend Your Blog: Scan For Vulnerabilities
Protecting Your Blogs FTP Area
about 2 months ago - No comments
Some %$@#$>%$@#$#^& found/hacked/stole your FTP account password. Now what? Well, change it of course, but that might not be enough.
(Can you feel my self restraint in not actually swearing?)
Here is a simple method you can use to prevent anyone other than you from uploading or downloading files. Read the rest of Protecting Your Blogs FTP Area
Defend Against The Bot’s
about 2 months ago - 4 comments
(Part of an ongoing series on protecting your most valuable asset in your online marketing arsenal, your Wordpress blog)
Sabre: Simple Anti Bot Registration Engine
Sabre is an acronym for Simple Anti Bot Registration Engine. It’s a set of counter measures against spam registration on your blog.
Your visitors are granted permission to register freely on your blog and now you are plagued by fake users automatically created by spammers? Read the rest of Defend Against The Bot's
Firewall For Your Wordpress Blog
about 2 months ago - 12 comments
(Part of an ongoing series on protecting your most valuable asset in your online marketing arsenal)
In the military, they call it “hardening targets” when they take steps to make it harder for the enemy to attack an asset. Here in the real world, it’s hard to think like that. But not thinking like this could cost you time, money, reputation and frustration.
I know from first hand experience.
When I started this series, it was in response to the attack my personal hosting account suffered. And because it was my hosting account, and not a single blog, but rather every single one of my sites was hit.
Take my advice and harden your assets now. Read the rest of Firewall For Your Wordpress Blog
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about 3 months ago
You are most welcome Taylor and David. So happy the information helps you protect your asset or gives you insights.
about 3 months ago
Thanks for the word up on this plugging Cenay and the rock solid support that you are continually giving to everyone. You are a champion :)
about 3 months ago
Thanks Cenay! I am becoming a fan fast! As always, your help and insight is invaluable.
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