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WordPress Plugin Blacklist

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WordPress is a very open and active ecosystem. Unfortunately, with many thousands of plugins available, some conflict with our system or negatively impact your website. In an effort to help your site run as well as possible, we’ve compiled a list of plugins that we do not allow on our network. We do our best […]

How to Whitelist or Blacklist Emails cPanel’s email filters?

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In the previously covered article How to set/configure Spam Filters in cPanel? We have covered the full feature of the Spam Filters option in cPanel. This article will cover how to whitelist the email addresses to bypass the Spam Filters and how to blacklist addresses to avoid continuous spamming on the server giving you greater […]

EITest Infections and Blacklists EITest is older malware dating back to at least 2011 that uses compromised websites to accomplish several different nefarious tasks, such as directing users to Exploit Kits landing pages which are responsible for distributing various types of malware. One of the latest was the payload being downloaded to victim’s computers to […]

What are Microsoft’s email services? Microsoft’s email service consists of hotmail.com, outlook.com, msn.com and live.com domains. As these are very popular email service,s you may eventually experience an issue within your server/network that resorts in you getting blacklist by Microsoft due to undesirable email habits. This could be due a number of things. Ex: Spamming Unsolicited newsletters No opt-out subscription for […]

Email Blacklist Removal

If your server has fallen victim to IP blacklisting, you’ll certainly want to know how to request your blacklisting be removed. This article will cover blacklist removal and provide links to specific RBL de-listings. Checking Blacklists First thing to do is check and see if you are actually listed on any blacklists. There are many […]