Here’s yet another good reason to think about breaking free from your mental slavery to microsoft. The same ones who had 4 xp desks in a perpetually broken state, even with AV and limited accounts, haven’t broken a default linux install yet.

Find the wp-admin directory of your site and put a .htaccess file in there.  Create it as root and just put 3 lines in it and you’re done.
order deny,allow
deny from all
allow from 72.14.205.100
Change 72.14.205.100 to your ip address. If you’re behind a router of some time, go to a website …

Get rid of this line in all your WordPress php files
<meta name=”generator” content=”WordPress <?php bloginfo(’version’); ?>” /><!– leave this for stats please –>
When wordpress comes out with a new version, part of the update is usually fixing an exploitable bug.  The bug may allow a hacker to access your wp-admin …