Lately, I have been receiving a lot of spam comments, obviously generated by robots. The comments vary from links to various sexual enhancement sites to just simply annoying random text.<\/p>\n
As a dutiful blogger, I wanted to rid such comments and headed to my cpanel to block those ip addresses. I put in cpanel after my domain in the address bar and typed in my username and password. <\/p>\n
Authentication failed.<\/i><\/p>\n
Okay, maybe I mistyped something.<\/p>\n
Authentication failed.<\/i><\/p>\n
I carefully looked at my keystrokes.<\/p>\n
Authentication failed.<\/i><\/p>\n
Ok, calm breaths. I started wondering if someone hacked into my site. It had been a horrible laborious process last time and my blog site is full of information I would rather not lose.<\/p>\n
Authentication failed.<\/i><\/p>\n
I headed over to my password list that I kept. Perhaps my memory has forgotten the password? But no, since it was a very important password to me, I didn’t keep it there. Plus I had this account since 2003 and started my password list in 2004.<\/p>\n
Authentication failed.<\/i><\/p>\n
Perhaps the password was in my email? But wait, that was on my desktop PC from college. The one that I haven’t used for almost 2 years. The account information was sent to my berkeley address.<\/p>\n
Authentication failed.<\/i><\/p>\n
PANIC. I didn’t want to go through filing a ticket through the helpdesk. I am sure my password was right, RIGHT?<\/p>\n
Authentication failed.<\/i><\/p>\n
I decided to check my other website to make sure my password hadn’t changed there. Then as I was starting to type in the address bar, I realized that I had typed jennsim.com<\/a> rather than jennism.com<\/a>. She’s a cool photographer and blogger at least.<\/p>\n Then I corrected my spelling and got to my cpanel happily.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Lately, I have been receiving a lot of spam comments, obviously generated by robots. The comments vary from links to various sexual enhancement sites to just simply annoying random text. As a dutiful blogger, I wanted to rid such comments … Continue reading