Title: Massive Trackback Attack?
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# Massive Trackback Attack?

 *  [dkaye](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dkaye/)
 * (@dkaye)
 * [19 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/massive-trackback-attack/)
 * I’m being besieged by trackback spam, and I’m wondering if my WP installation
   has, in fact been hacked. An automated spammer is adding more than 100 trackbacks
   per hour to my blog. I’m running WordPress 2.04 as well as the Akismet and Trackback
   Validator plugins. What worries me is that even though I’ve disabled comments
   and trackbaks, it hasn’t stopped the spammer. The spammers aren’t entirely bypassing
   WP, since I’m getting email notifications of each added trackback. I even went
   into the database and manually set the comment_status for all posts to ‘closed.’
   Got any tips? Seen this before? (www.blogarithms.com)

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 *  [Les Bessant](https://wordpress.org/support/users/lesbessant/)
 * (@lesbessant)
 * [19 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/massive-trackback-attack/#post-442421)
 * Try Bad Behaviour:
 * [http://www.homelandstupidity.us/software/bad-behavior/](http://www.homelandstupidity.us/software/bad-behavior/)
 * Stops most automated spammers.
 *  [Sushubh](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sushubh/)
 * (@sushubh)
 * [19 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/massive-trackback-attack/#post-442429)
 * you are not alone. since yesterday i have been bombarded. akismet is sleeping
   i guess. 🙁
 *  [viper007bond](https://wordpress.org/support/users/viper007bond/)
 * (@viper007bond)
 * [19 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/massive-trackback-attack/#post-442434)
 * Heh, that’s why [I use Spam Karma 2 with a SK2 Akismet plugin](http://www.viper007bond.com/archives/2006/03/08/spam-karma-2-akismet/).
   🙂
 *  Thread Starter [dkaye](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dkaye/)
 * (@dkaye)
 * [19 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/massive-trackback-attack/#post-442449)
 * Thanks, friends. I threw a few things at it, and Bad Behavior immediately stopped
   this particular attack. I think I’ll check out Spam Karma 2…too.
 *  [blueorder](https://wordpress.org/support/users/blueorder/)
 * (@blueorder)
 * [19 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/massive-trackback-attack/#post-442463)
 * I have a question. If I use SK2’s Akismet add-in, do I need to disable the Akismet
   plugin?
 * Thanks
 *  [viper007bond](https://wordpress.org/support/users/viper007bond/)
 * (@viper007bond)
 * [19 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/massive-trackback-attack/#post-442521)
 * > If I use SK2’s Akismet add-in, do I need to disable the Akismet plugin?
 * Technically no (I don’t think it’ll break your blog), but you probably should
   just stick to one.
 *  [blueorder](https://wordpress.org/support/users/blueorder/)
 * (@blueorder)
 * [19 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/massive-trackback-attack/#post-442528)
 * Thanks for the reply.

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 * [trackback](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/trackback/)

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