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1. moshu
   Member
   Posted 7 years ago #

   http://wordpress.org/support/4/13006
   see this thread

2. sdollen
   Member
   Posted 7 years ago #

   What about someone trying to use up your bandwidth transfer on purpose? That would be a fear to me - my host charges x amount once you've gone past a specific amount of bandwidth. Any suggestions on that ? Otherwise, the spam is the issue and if I'm reading everything correctly, you can limit that with the script from Kitty's site and also in the Admin panel?

3. Mark (podz)
   Support Maven
   Posted 7 years ago #

   You could try slowing a spammer
   http://dougal.gunters.org/blog/2004/08/25/spammer-tar-pit
   One rather extreme option would be to use .htaccess and blanket ban IP's for a few hours ? That does need the spammer's IP to remain within the same top octet, but it's certainly doable.
   If anyone has been the subject of a concerted attack and has taken any additional steps to combat it, I am sure that either a post back here, or sent to the hackers list would be gratefully recieved.

4. jcairns
   Member
   Posted 7 years ago #

   The thread moshu posted describes exactly what's occurring with my site. I can't ban all the IPs because they change when I ban them, and there's no obvious IP pattern the attacker is using. I like the "tar pit" idea. I'll post any solution I come up with.

5. charle97
   Member
   Posted 7 years ago #

   are the spammers using ascii code?

6. Beel
   Member
   Posted 7 years ago #

   Yep

7. Anonymous
   Unregistered
   Posted 7 years ago #

   Here are SOME of the IP addresses the attacker has been coming from:
   38.113.198.9
   211.114.68.61
   65.112.194.26
   24.205.192.162
   24.209.107.129
   24.128.115.125
   66.7.35.42
   130.94.134.38
   81.118.4.4
   Interesting.

8. Anonymous
   Unregistered
   Posted 7 years ago #

   banning ip addresses is futile, since they can easily be spoofed.

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