WP trying to install while I'm working. won't let me back to my dashboard

  • smarxer

    (@smarxer)


    8 years, 6 months ago

    I’ve had to have a lot of help from the server techs this week–most of which are overseas. The last one today told me I should get sitelock in case my site gets attacked. I ignored him. My site has a fresh backup, and I replaced Wordfence with all-in-one Security and had pretty strict settings as of last night. Something just doesn’t seem right. WordPress has never tried to force it’s way into my dashboard while I’m working. Can anybody shed some light on this? I just shut my browser. Also, when I attempted to get back to my dashboard, it wouldn’t let me (the WordPress splash page that told me to click to start the install. When I logged out and tried to log back in I got a 503)

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  • Gennady Kovshenin

    (@soulseekah)

    8 years, 6 months ago

    How exactly does “force it’s way into [your] dashboard” look like? Hard to understand what’s going on. What is trying to install?

    Thread Starter smarxer

    (@smarxer)

    8 years, 6 months ago

    I was doing some edits in Business Directory, I’d done several, then when I clicked save on the umpteenth one, instead of saving, I got a block from WordPress telling me to select my language. I refreshed my browser without saving, and a WordPress splash screen came up with the arrow to start my installation. So I closed my IE Edge. Then I tried to log-in with Firefox. It did the same thing, and when I refreshed it gave me a 503 screen. So I closed that browser. Maybe I’m paranoid. After a few minutes I logged back in, (my dashboard this time) and tightened up my security settings. I haven’t had any more trouble and there were no warnings from my security software. (except I think I got security settings too tight because I can’t export my csv files now. I have to use FTP to grab them from my file directory). I haven’t had any trouble since. The site has been in Maintenance mode for a few days, and still is. My WP is set to update automatically, and I use 4.3.1.

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