Title: site attack
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# site attack

 *  [mmcomber](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mmcomber/)
 * (@mmcomber)
 * [15 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/site-attack/)
 * Hi all,
 * For the past few days, my site has been under attack. I’ve suddenly started getting
   10x the number of page views. The only think in common is that they are using
   Window 2000 and Internet Explorer 5. The IP address seemed to be spoofed. A lot
   are from the US, but they seem to keep generating new ones. So I’d rather not
   start blocking them wholesale. Any ideas for stopping this attach. It is slowing
   down my site.
 * The site is threesheetsnw.com. I’m using WP 3.0.1 in the multisite format.
 * Thanks

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 *  Moderator [t-p](https://wordpress.org/support/users/t-p/)
 * (@t-p)
 * [15 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/site-attack/#post-1792111)
 * Have you contacted your webhost explaining them the issue?
 *  Thread Starter [mmcomber](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mmcomber/)
 * (@mmcomber)
 * [15 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/site-attack/#post-1792135)
 * Thanks t-p. Yes I contacted my host and they shrugged their shoulders and said
   there wasn’t much they could do.
 * It sure seems like a DDoS attacks, but not enough to really shut the site down.
   Yesterday, I got around 25,000 pageviews, which is about 10 times the normal 
   amount.
 *  Moderator [t-p](https://wordpress.org/support/users/t-p/)
 * (@t-p)
 * [15 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/site-attack/#post-1792140)
 * Do you have too many images? My understanding is that each and every image in
   a given page are also counted and included in pageviews. Just a thought.
 *  Thread Starter [mmcomber](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mmcomber/)
 * (@mmcomber)
 * [15 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/site-attack/#post-1792148)
 * yes, we have a lot of images. But those aren’t what’s causing the trouble. It
   is pretty clear from the stats that someone is using a host of IP address to 
   hit the site. The give away is the Internet Explorer 5. I know that very few 
   folks use that anymore.
 * Maybe I’ll try my host again.

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 * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
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 * Last reply from: [mmcomber](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mmcomber/)
 * Last activity: [15 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/site-attack/#post-1792148)
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