Comments on: Fixing a ‘This site may harm your computer’ warning, part 3: Clearing a spammed forum http://www.jasonmorrison.net/content/2008/fixing-a-%e2%80%98this-site-may-harm-your-computer%e2%80%99-warning-part-3-clearing-a-spammed-forum/ Usability, web development, and design Fri, 08 Aug 2008 19:30:31 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 By: JasonMorrison.net » How to keep spam off your blog, bulletin board, or forum http://www.jasonmorrison.net/content/2008/fixing-a-%e2%80%98this-site-may-harm-your-computer%e2%80%99-warning-part-3-clearing-a-spammed-forum/#comment-1018 JasonMorrison.net » How to keep spam off your blog, bulletin board, or forum Mon, 21 Jul 2008 20:37:39 +0000 http://www.jasonmorrison.net/content/2008/fixing-a-%e2%80%98this-site-may-harm-your-computer%e2%80%99-warning-part-3-clearing-a-spammed-forum/#comment-1018 [...] to spend hours every day sorting the good posts from the bad.  I’ve already written about how to totally clear out a spammed forum and erase all traces of it’s reputation-marring existence, but the best solution is [...] [...] to spend hours every day sorting the good posts from the bad.  I’ve already written about how to totally clear out a spammed forum and erase all traces of it’s reputation-marring existence, but the best solution is [...]

]]> By: JohnMu http://www.jasonmorrison.net/content/2008/fixing-a-%e2%80%98this-site-may-harm-your-computer%e2%80%99-warning-part-3-clearing-a-spammed-forum/#comment-241 JohnMu Wed, 26 Mar 2008 10:23:02 +0000 http://www.jasonmorrison.net/content/2008/fixing-a-%e2%80%98this-site-may-harm-your-computer%e2%80%99-warning-part-3-clearing-a-spammed-forum/#comment-241 That's a pretty good summary, Jason! However, I would recommend one change: do not disallow the folder in your robots.txt. By disallowing it, you're restricting search engines from recognizing that the bad content is no longer on your site (the "disallow" is a crawl directive, not an indexing directive). You need to allow them to recrawl those URLs and to see either a page-not-found (404) or your gone (410) result code. Another blog post to look at is http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2007/09/quick-security-checklist-for-webmasters.html . That’s a pretty good summary, Jason! However, I would recommend one change: do not disallow the folder in your robots.txt. By disallowing it, you’re restricting search engines from recognizing that the bad content is no longer on your site (the “disallow” is a crawl directive, not an indexing directive). You need to allow them to recrawl those URLs and to see either a page-not-found (404) or your gone (410) result code.

Another blog post to look at is http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2007/09/quick-security-checklist-for-webmasters.html .

]]> By: Reid http://www.jasonmorrison.net/content/2008/fixing-a-%e2%80%98this-site-may-harm-your-computer%e2%80%99-warning-part-3-clearing-a-spammed-forum/#comment-224 Reid Sat, 22 Mar 2008 18:17:25 +0000 http://www.jasonmorrison.net/content/2008/fixing-a-%e2%80%98this-site-may-harm-your-computer%e2%80%99-warning-part-3-clearing-a-spammed-forum/#comment-224 Wow, really thorough and useful post. I haven't taken the initiative to making a forum, basically because I know it wouldn't get much use and it could be vulnerable for spamming. The good news is that I don't see the "This Site May Harm Your Computer Anymore" warning! Yay! Wow, really thorough and useful post. I haven’t taken the initiative to making a forum, basically because I know it wouldn’t get much use and it could be vulnerable for spamming. The good news is that I don’t see the “This Site May Harm Your Computer Anymore” warning! Yay!

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