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stop the spam bots (2 posts)

  1. robotdance
    Member
    Posted 3 years ago #

    so i've been running wordpress for a few years. i always keep up with the newest updates. i've never ever had a problem with being hacked by any bots up until yesterday. i just don't know where they're coming from.
    i'm running 2.6.3. all my plugins are updated. i changed passwords on everything.

    whats happening is that all of my index files source gets loaded with spam links and makes my site unusable. i deleted and replaced a couple files but they would get re-hacked seconds later. then i deleted every single index file in every folder and replaced them and it seemed to have fixed the problem... until about 30 minutes ago when i noticed it happened again.
    now i'm currently deleting EVERYTHING and re-re-installing wordpress on my site.

    does anyone know of any security issues with the new version of wordpress that i should know about? its just odd because its never happened before.

    oh. site is robotdancemusic.com

  2. ml kay
    Member
    Posted 3 years ago #

    These are 2 plug-ins that work together and with Project HoneyPot to combat spam and bots. Read the info on these sites for more information.

    : WP-HoneyPot
    Bad Behavior / Bad Behaviour: Home

    There's also Raven's AntiSpam plug-in.

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