With spammers getting better and better at exploiting sites for spam, sooner or later any site running with normal security may be exploited. If you're on shared hosting you may do everything to protect yourself just to experience that somebody else on the shared server had a hole they could exploit.

So what do we do to minimize the negative effect of being exploited ?

Off course monitoring and backups will make it easy to restore soon, but then google`s probably already been there and the damage is done and your hardworked PR gone or set back for a long period of time.

How about a security plugin that checks/scans for changes in the WP install/db, and not only notifies but also automatically locks Google out when something is compromised ?

http://www.aboutonlinetips.com/wordp...urity-plugins/

If the change was harmless, the webmaster could just accept the change and the plugin let robots in again.

Should be pretty easy to make since there are several plugins that notifies about changes, and all that must be added is a function to control settings for robots access.

Comments ? Do I oversimplify ?



John Myrstad