The article below will describe how to install the reCAPTCHA plugin to your WordPress blog page. This plugin is a free service provided by Google that protects your page against spam & threats. It uses various techniques to tell humans apart from bots.
Before installing the plugin, make sure that you are the administrator of the page.
To add CAPTCHA protection to your WordPress page, follow these steps:
1) Firstly, you are going to have to log into your WordPress account as an administrator 2) Under dashboard, click ‘plugins’ and then click ‘new’ 3) Into your search bar, enter ‘CAPTCHA’ 4) Search for the plugin 5) Look out for the Google CAPTCHA (reCAPTCHA) & then click ‘install now’ 6) Once the plugin has installed, under your dashboard, click the plugins tab & then click on ‘installed plugins’ 7) Once you have found the reCAPTCHA plugin, click ‘activate’ 8) Click on the ‘settings’ button
Once the plugin has been launched you have to create a public & private key. In order to complete the next step, you have to click the authentication button.
Once that is completed, follow these steps below:
1) Once the keys are received, type the public key text into the public key text box & the private key text into the private key text box. 2) Once completed, under ‘options’ click ‘save changes’ 3) CAPTCHA should be activated once the steps above are completed. You can test it by going to your WordPress front page & click the comment link. You will see the WordPress CAPTCHA in the submission form.
Email security protects you and your business against risk. Confidential information such as your credit card, bank account number or a social security number etc. can be protected through email security.
Email security are various safety measures that protects email accounts, content & communication against suspicious activity.
Types of email threats
– Phishing Phishing is one of the most commonly used methods of attacking online users. It is usually portrayed as a trustworthy entity that attempts to obtain sensitive information such as your passwords, usernames or your credit card details.
– Ransomware Ransomware is a type of malicious software that’s used by hackers. This happens when a user is demanded a ransom in order to gain access to their data.
– Spam Spam attacks are done through various mediums but the most common one used are communication channels such as emails. It makes the medium impractical because it has been bombarded with senseless information.
Tips on strengthening your password
– Use more than 12 characters – Use special characters (%$#@) – Use uppercase & lowercase letters – Avoid personal or obvious information
Example of a strong password: P!Zz@Gam3r23$$ (Unrelated to someone’s name or birthday) Example of a weak password: Sandy28051994 (Name and birthday used with no special characters, numbers etc.)
What we offer at Hostking
We offer SSL certificates which allows your data to be transmitted securely by establishing an encrypted connection. Spamexperts is another service offered by Hostking which filters out any form of spam & viruses before it reaches your network. Siteblock is a daily malware scanner that identifies threats & known malicious code.
Follow the instructions in the README.txt and INSTALL.txt files in the package
Please note that the script currently is configured to download the latest MailScanner at the time of writing. If you want a different version, edit msinstall.pl and modify the $mailscanner variable appropriately
Once installed/upgraded/uninstalled make sure that both MailScanner is running correctly and that exim is sending and receiving emails (you should use 2 separate SSH windows to do this): tail -f /var/log/maillog tail -f /var/log/exim_mainlog
Uninstallation
1. Remove MailScanner and the MailScanner Front-End:
cd /usr/mscpanel
sh uninstall.msfe.sh
cd /root
wget http://www.configserver.com/free/msinstall.tar.gz
tar -xzf msinstall.tar.gz
cd msinstall/
sh uninstall.sh
2. To remove the MailScanner Configuration icon from cPanel, go to WHM > Packages > Feature Manager. Edit the “disabled” Feature List and uncheck the box for MailScanner Configuration. 3. Remove the root cron jobs that run mscpanel.pl and sa_rules.sh (or rules_du_jour):
crontab -e
4. Remove the following lines from /scripts/postupcp:
#!/bin/sh
perl /usr/mscpanel/mscheck.pl
5. Reset Exim Configuration (if desired), in WHM > Exim Configuration Editor > Reset All Configs to Defaults. 6. If you want to re-enable SpamAssassin through cPanel: WHM > Tweak Settings > SpamAssassin > tick WHM > Service Manager > spamd > tick both boxes WHM > Feature Manager > Edit a Feature List > disabled > Edit > SpamAssassin and SpamAssassin Spam Box > tick WHM > Feature Manager > Edit Feature List – edit any feature lists that you want to allow access to the SpamAssassin configuration in cPanel
Temporarly Disable/Enable Mailscanner
in Cpanel server
The simplest way to disable it is to do the following:
rm -fv /etc/exim_outgoing.conf
/scripts/buildeximconf
service exim restart
MailScanner will still be running, but won’t be involved in email delivery. If you also want to stop it running, go to WHM > Service Configuration > Service Manager and uncheck both boxes for MailScanner. Then login via SSH and do:
service MailScanner stop
You do need to do the first steps above to disable MailScanner before stopping the service, otherwise no mail will be delivered at all. Important: Before disabling MailScanner, you should check to see if there are any mails waiting to be processed by MailScanner. If there are and you disable MailScanner, the waiting emails will not be processed by exim until MailScanner is re-enabled. To find out if there are mails waiting (do thisbefore disabling MailScanner), in root SSH enter:
exim -bpc
You can contact us via the helpdesk if you need help after you’ve disabled MailScanner. To re-enable it:
touch /etc/exim_outgoing.conf
/scripts/buildeximconf
/scripts/mailscannerupdate
service exim restart
/usr/mscpanel/mscheck.pl
