HIJACKED EMAIL ADDRESS!

Can you believe it! In spite of a firewall, a Yahoo address, Google's Blogging software and my own precautions, some swine in China has hijacked my email address and just sent me a "UK Men's Health" email - using my own email address to send it to me!

So if you get this in your mailbox, treat it as spam and DO NOT OPEN IT.

So anyone who has this email address in their address book: firstfloorflat1-blog at yahoo dot co dot uk - please delete it as I am now taking it out of service.

I no longer have my email address listed openly on my Profile page (which may be where it's been hijacked from).

So anyone who wants to contact me, please press the email button which will open into an email for you. Hopefully that will fix it, as it will go through two filters now, but I've come to realise that nothing is guaranteed these days.

I have been having a lot of attempts at hacking into my blog lately, although why I'm suddenly a target I really don't know: various messages arriving, mosting in Chinese but some in Russian, all trying to leave comments on older posts - like I wouldn't notice. You'll note when you leave a comment that I've written that my comments are moderated - now you can see why!

HOW TO MODERATE COMMENTS

Go into Dashboard > Settings > Comments and click on Comment Moderation - Always.

It isn't actually necessary to have the Captcha image (word verification) as well (in fact, it's a pain to have to type this on every blog when you want to leave a comment) but I'm putting it back on for now, in the hope it will act as a deterrent to these pains in the neck.

If you have more than one blog, you need to reset every blog individually.

I did a full virus check etc last night, so at least that's one less worry. But I really could do without all this!

To say I am beyond disgusted is an understatement.

So, if you have your email address displayed openly on your blog, can I please plead with you to take it off right now.

Here is a link to my free email buttons, and instructions on how to add your own email address.

Stay safe out there!