S-P-A-M reduction

Since there was so much spam in my Trackback folder, my rental server suspended/disabled the folder where I had my Movable Type files. Upon inquiry, I decided to reupload all MT files into a different directory. I upgraded to version 3.34 in the meantime.

Thanks to MySQL, I was able to update easily. Had my files been Berkeley DB, the /db folder would have been suspended along with the MT directory.

In order to reduce future attacks, I decided to do the following:

1) Delete RDF from the Individual Entry Archive

Just delete the tag <$MTEntryTrackbackData$>and save, rebuild.

2) Rename CGI files

Renamed mt-tb-cgi to mt-tb-somethigelse.cgi, mt-comments.cgi to mt-comments-somethingelse.cgi.

Added the lines

TrackbackScript mt-tb-somethingelse.cgi
CommentsScript mt-comments-somethingelse.cgi

in mt-config.cgi, and rebuild.

We’ll see if this has any effect.