If your movable type blog gets hit excessively by trackback spammers, you may find yourself unable leave trackbacks for yourself due to a "403 Throttled" error. This http response is from movable type in an effort to slow down mass trackback ping spammers. I will go over some quick fixes, some longer term fixes and some very technical info for those intending to modify their installation of MT to handle trackback ping spam better. This article will apply to MT3 and MT4.

A friend of mine was recently hit with some malware that would put a little shield in the system tray of windows which would show reports of virus infections and all types of problems. Every time you click on it, it would open up a page for a product called Virus Protect Pro. Of course you have to pay for this, and what you're paying for is really a glorified uninstaller of their malware. Here's how to clean it from your system...