If you tried to visit my blog this morning, you may have faced problems. That’s because I was facing problems. 
Well first of all, my blog’s been under attack from spambots for a very long time. They edit my scripts and insert spam code in them that redirects to some phishy website. Most of you may have experienced this. I have been changing my server file and folder permissions for a long time but they manage to edit my .htaccess file and rechange the permissions to suit themselves. The result is the return of spam within a few weeks, if not a couple of days. So I contacted my hosting to ask them how it was happening and they told me it was a vulnerability in my script, not from their side. Even my other sites that don’t use Wordpress have been spammed and one was blocked by Google! I let them know of this.
Finally today, they replied to me stating that my .htaccess file was corrupt. They provided me a link to download an anti-Malware program to see if there was Malware on my computer, hacking my data (I did find one infection). They deleted my .htaccess file too due to which most of my blogs pages could not be accessed as I use Permalinks (URL Rewrite) for my pages. So I decided that it was high time I did some serious work on my blog.
I updated my scripts, set extremely strict file permissions that don’t even allow me to read the contents of my server folders but after I rebuilt my sitemap. Now ‘SAWJ Blogs…’ is back at the top of Google results! (No Saad, it wasn’t blacklisted! One of my other domains was, but I rarely used it so I have deleted it’s contents.)
Let me know if you guys still face problems with my blog. (I know, I would’ve had less troubles with a blogging-service-hosted blog but hell, I wouldn’t have learned so much then!)
And for the record, I’ll be disabling the Threaded Comments plugin from the next post. It means that you would not be able to understand the order of the comments on the previous posts as they will be hap-hazard and you won’t be able to make out “who replied to who”. Do recommend a better plugin if you can or give me the address to the Follow Up Comments Notification plugin.
Have Fun!
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well i think i used the wrong word i.e blacklisted it was showing the phishing warning and that is somehow related to Google.
Well its working now!
Yes it did. Added to the 11000 or so websites that had been attacked.
For how long, that is the question!
Yes, that is the question!
Oh yeah!!!!!! once when i was browsing your blog some files got downloaded automatically in firefox which were virus affected , it didn’t infect my PC because of Nod32
so you mister have been trying to infect everyone’s pc with virus tch tch tch very bad 
Too bad, I’ll have to find a way to bypass NOD32 then! Waise how good a firewall is it?
i had it disabled at that time
thats why it got downloaded , so when it got downloaded automatically i got suspicious and enabled nod32 and it found it, if it would have been enabled it wouldn’t have allowed the virus to get downloaded
its very good IMO its one of the best infact and btw its a antivirus but it has a version (Nod32 Internet security) which has a firewall too but i prefer the combination of nod32 antivirus plus comodo firewall
Oh yes, I remember now. My friend gave me NOD32 antivirus and a firewall. I got confused between the two. Which OS do you use, Windows or Linux? Man I use ZoneAlarm Antivirus. I had a good experience with it initially but now it’s starting to tick me off!
Windows XP i am too lazy to setup my computer the way i want on linux though i have good experience with it, try nod32 as an antivirus and if you want a firewall nothing can beat comodo (its free)
these days norton antivirus 2009 is also getting good reviews but haven’t myself tried it
and if you want any help like a cracked version maybe just ask me i will try my best to help
Thanks man.
No Problem Yaar
You know what I WILL LOVE THE FACT THAT THREADED COMMENTS ARE GOING TO BE history
On some interesting posts I’d like to read other comments too 
I so hated them always
And well you had blacklisted sites .. :s Oohh
ps: can u plz alter my name to just asma or dash of spice in the blogroll, plz.
How the heck were threaded comments preventing you from reading other people’s comments?
Well only one blacklisted site and that’s gone now!
And why the name change? Something to do with “soon-to-be”?
Heck no. Im so easily google-able thats why.
And i wont read others comments … coz well why bother
One of the reasons why I thank God I’m not a girl. Aiwaeen ke pangay!
Hmm…your application’s pending while i verify your claim.
verify karo and then do it
Your google ranking has nothing to do with my blog bhai. My blog doesn’t even appear in the search results for ‘asma mirza’.
This you?
http://www.facebook.com/people/Asma_Mirza/1410985
Can’t be, she’s too good-looking!
ur blog wont come duffer. Mine will. The linked site … for the linked name… ever read about SEO
google it plz dont ask me 
And yeahs he’s cute and not me
Don’t teach me about SEO, how the heck is me changing the link going to affect your blog? It’s already on top!
The profile was of some poor woman. And yes, you are Asma Meerza, a silent stalker and the only reason they invented pampers for adults, apart from diarrhea!
yaar i have to agree with Asma you are too duffer to be a free lancer i mean kaisey ban gaye free lancer? Allah hi khair karey tumharey clients ka
And why exactly is that?
your site gets hacked and you have no clue, you have problems differentiating between an antivirus and firewall and the the reason asma mentioned
i guess after this you are going to be really angry with me 
Okay, I think I understand your problem now. You don’t want to be search-able by name but you want your blog to still be on top, is that right?
If that is so, faida? When I first visited your blog, I didn’t google for your name.
Waise, I’ve processed your application and it’s been accepted.
great … well no who wants my blog to be on first
I’m past that stage …. I’m an oldie now
Abe salay, how the heck am I supposed to stop spambots? All I can do is set my directory permissions and that I’ve done. There are vulnerabilities in Wordpress, now I can’t go around fixing them, can I? Neither do I have the time nor the patience for it. It’s easier to delete spam code every week!
As for the antivirus and firewall part, I confused the names, not the functionality!
And go on with the third one, I’m waiting with a rifle!
Jee Aunty! So what’s the problem with your name showing up in search results? Someone…ahem…stalking you?
about time u sleep.
you sound like some ISP representative
Hahahaha!
Abe neeche comment ka jawab do!
hehe not all blogs get infected my blog has never got infected and i don’t know php or some other shit (but has learned lots by just looking at the code) this goes to prove you just can’t manage a blog, i am sure you don’t update your blog
My blog gets updated within a month of the new release. And I get spammed doesn’t mean that I can’t manage a blog. If you know how to manage a blog, can you please tell me how to prevent an Autobot (not the Transformers’ ones) from changing your file and directory permissions?
tumharey hi blog par tumhari izzat ka kachra eh? khair check all the directory permissions and if you have any plugin installed which allows you to install plugins or upload file remotely remove it for example:
http://gaarai.com/wp-easy-uploader/
btw i have been successful in making you mad khair J/K don’t mind
Nope, no such plugin sir jee. The files in my root directory got edited, then my theme files got edited. And the attack was not just limited to my blog. Even non-Wordpress files in other domains got edited.
that goes against you sir because you said wordpress has flaws in your last comment
now stop bombarding my email inbox thorra waqfey sey reply kiya karoo (if you haven’t figured it out i am subscribed to your comments)
try changing permissions of your root directory and changing your server passwords
Already done! And Wordpress does have flaws.
It all depends on the direction in which the spambot spreads. I just got unlucky. I just pray that this is the end.
And how the heck are you subscribed to my comments when I don’t even have the darn plugin installed?
Hopefully!
try commenting on your blog after clearing your cache or changing browser and you will see a checkbox under the comment box
hehe you don’t even know which plugins are installed and which are not on your blog, no wonder your blog got attacked
this is fun man
this might be the most commented post on your blog
btw yaar i was just kidding don’t mind
As blog admin, I don’t get the same interface that you do to reply to comments. There is no checkbox for me and I have a delete option available to me right here. So I don’t have the privilege to see that checkbox. Threaded Comments ensures that I don’t.
As for installing that plugin, I never did. Maybe it came with the theme and I copied it subconsciously…
I know man, I’m playing too!
Waise the most commented post is one by the name of “Count the rods in the chair”. Asma and I deliberately commented on that post to raise the number of comments.
that’s why i was saying clear cache so that you get logged out as admin
btw are you thinking of changing the theme because this one is very bulky
No man I like it for the time being.
Maybe before Muharram, but certainly no plans for now.
And clearing the cache does not log you out. Deleting your cookies will. Gotcha!
Nope it doesn’t! You have to delete cookies separately. Both are different things. Cache does not aid in session creation and sustenance but cookies do. And our aim here is to destroy the session, so delete the cookies!
well if you use firefox the cache clearing option clears the cookies too and so is the case with ccleaner so i didn’t go into much detail and in short said clear your cache and i also kept your level of expertise in my mind before i said that because i thought you wouldn’t know the meaning of cookies and could have mistaken it with eatable cookies
btw from which site did you copied that?
Which version of Firefox do you use? Because in the latest version the developers have clearly kept the options of cleaning Cache and Cookies separate. Duh!
Now you’re just babbling man!
3.0.4 btw i took it for granted that you would select cookies when “clearing private data” in firefox but i should have known that you are not that intelligent
this might be the most commented post when i am done humiliating you
I didn’t understand a word of this post, or a word of your comment thread either.
Saw the word ‘cookie’ a few times and was interested lekin sab malyamait ho gaya.
What, you weren’t intelligent enough to perceive that?
Never take things for granted, learn the lesson!
hehe i had predicted such comments
Sorry about that! Don’t worry, I only make posts like these a few times a year. You’ll be able to understand the rest of them easily!
And welcome to my blog!
Where exactly?
what? huh? here! i mean because not all your blog readers are that much tech savvy
Here where?
I understand why, but where dude?
in this post! duh!
ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh! now i know what you are trying to do!! good going
Thank you!
But where exactly is the comment that contains your prediction?
well i didn’t say it but i knew…
But you said you predicted!
well sorry i mean i knew there would be some comments like these
Well, it goes against you because you said you predicted!
apparently you are good at this!
LOL, tit for tat!
yeah yeah i am tired
Me too!
kitni comments hogai?
Jao yar tum to yeh bhi nahin dekh sakte ke kitne comments ho gaye hain!
This is the 70th!
abey dekh sakta hu but i wanted to ummm start it again
Abe so ja bhai, main bhi thak gaya hoon!
Geeky arguments are tiring!
ha! haar maan gaye!
Don’t taunt me man, I have a whole week’s supply of bananas to supply me with protein and keep me going!
matlab? you will feed me all those bananas or what?
My good god! I’m not even going to try and read that!
I’m going to eat those bananas and keep refueling myself for this geek war!
You couldn’t even get this one!
Are parho, bara maza aaye ga!
its not me dude you couldn’t get your message across
Quoting you from above:
“i should have known that you are not that intelligent”
I tell you this geek war can only be understood by geeks!
82 comments? that’s nothing i want a century