The wordpress.net.in spam injection hijack I wrote about recently doesn’t always put something visible in the footer of a page when it’s affected a site. A quick-and-dirty way is to Google for the following:
Those three elements will usually appear in the listing for an affected site like this one:
If your site is listed, you should probably go read my blog entry about how I dealt with this problem.
Recently, I started using Microsoft’s Windows Live Writer (WLW) to compose blog entries offline. It has made blogging much easier.
Earlier this morning, I encountered the following error message when I attempted to post a new blog entry from my notebook:
The last thing I’d done, aside from writing the entry, was adding a couple of new plugins to WLW. Standard troubleshooting techniques would suggest this as the first place to look, but when I uninstalled them I still encountered the same error.
Next step was to try to re-create the problem, so I switched to my desktop, which didn’t have the plugins, and attempted to use WLW to edit an entry. Same error.
Logging into the server my blog is hosted on didn’t immediately reveal any problems, so I dug deeper.
AKA Keeper of Maps, I'm a geocacher who lives in Ottawa, Canada.
