The last few days we have seen a real decline in the spam that gets through to us. The McColo Corp., a San Jose, Calif., based Web hosting service had their ISP pull the plug on their internet activity. At least for now, the world is seeing 75% less spam. Lets hope they keep his operations down.
On the other hand, the clients on Cold Sweat-Chicago Internet Solution servers that have forums and galleries are seeing an increase of registrations from spammers.
Just to err on the cautious side we made a change in one clients website, a PHP_Nuke site that was 4 years old and never updated who always seem to be targeted with hackers and such. That site is no more and a brand new one non-nuke in its place.
While we here at “Sweat” have nothing against the Nuke sites, we ask that you keep it up to date. That should be for all type sites and we should not have to go into our servers here to force that issue. These software companies release updates periodically for a reason….one of them security!
For your sites security we check on updates every day on our servers for anti-virus, firewall and such. A few minutes here can save days somewhere else.