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HYGEN Blog Archive for November, 2009

Changing IP Address Of A Windows Web Server (IIS6)

Wednesday, November 4th, 2009

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When you move a Windows server to a new IP address there are two major settings you will have to configure on your server in order for your web sites and email to function.

Once you have updated the AName records with your domain name provider to point to the new IP address you can begin reconfiguring the server. Firstly you will need to make sure that each web site is set to the correct new IP - this is done either in IIS Manager or in the Computer Management MMC.

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New Kind Of Comment Spam Targeting Wordpress

Monday, November 2nd, 2009

Wordpress Comment Spam

Today I discovered a new type of attempted comment spam targeting my Wordpress blog. The spam bot managed to figure out a section of a legitimate comment and then immitate it and then append a spam link to the end. Technically this is quite easy to do using regex or some simple string functions once a page has been “spidered” by the spam bot.

Here is a quick example of what is going on. The following is an origional comment that has been automatically extracted from my blog and then had spam attached to it prior to reposting…

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