Wired Vision

I have switched from Akismet to Defensio for my comment spam protection. I don’t know if this will be a permanent change. The effectiveness of Defensio will decide that. Therefore, if you find your comment is not being displayed, it’s quite likely that Defensio has treated it as spam. Don’t worry though. All comments marked [...]

Spam, or junk mail, now accounts for over 85% of all email traffic in Ireland. The figures are based on the monitoring of more than 13 million email messages, sent to over 1000 domains, during the month of July. I can totally believe that stat, because I would say that roughly 85% of the emails [...]

So far, Askimet has protected my blog from 11,402 spam comments. Thank you Askimet!

Over the past week or so I’ve been the unfortunate bearer of email injection attacks on two of my sites. It’s no fun I can assure you! So, I’ve had to search for anything that can help me overcome these nasty so and so’s. That’s when I came across an article called Email Injection – [...]

I’ve temporarily disabled commenting because there has been 100+ spam comments posted over the past few days. The built in spam filter isn’t working properly, so I’m going to have to find an alternative way of stopping it. Once I do, comments will be turned back on. Update: Comments have been enabled again. I have [...]