I noticed an increase in my web traffic for this site and for a minute I was pleased, then I saw where the traffic was coming from and realised that there are some new bots in town. Say hi to Buttons-for-website.com and make-money-online.7makemoneyonline.com. Having successfully blocked the semalt.com bot that was annoying the heck out …
Protect your computer from GameOver Zeus and Cryptolocker
At the beginning of June there were media reports on the risk of two malware issues: GameOver Zeus and CryptoLocker. Gameover Zeus is malware aimed at stealing banking details and passwords from home and business computers. Once infected with this malware, a computer becomes part of a global network of infected computers known as a …
Using CloudFlare for speed and protection
I noticed that my blog is inaccessible for about a minute at different times of the day. When I checked my logs it seems that two extremely aggressive search engines spider the site and use up my server resources. They are the Chinese search engine, Baidu and the Russian search engine, Yandex. I’m on a …