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# DaRoca

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 *   Forum: [Plugins](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/plugins-and-hacks/)
    In
   reply to: [[Redirection] Hundreds of 404s ‘/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/’](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/dozens-of-404s/)
 *  Thread Starter [DaRoca](https://wordpress.org/support/users/daroca/)
 * (@daroca)
 * [8 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/dozens-of-404s/#post-10029482)
 * I spent a few hours digging after posting here and it’s clearly some hacking /
   spam script firing at the site.
 * No page redirects, I’m only forcing HTTPS and www prefix using [https://github.com/h5bp/html5-boilerplate/blob/master/dist/.htaccess](https://github.com/h5bp/html5-boilerplate/blob/master/dist/.htaccess)
 * Different IP each time and from all over the world.
 * Referring URL is blank but the UA is always the same – Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT
   6.1; WOW64; rv:40.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/40.1
 * I’ve been trying to block that UA but not got it working with:
 *     ```
       # BLOCK USER AGENTS
       <IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
       	RewriteEngine on
       	RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^Mozilla\/5\.0\ \(Windows\ NT\ 6\.1\;\ WOW64\;\ rv\:40\.0\)\ Gecko\/20100101\ Firefox\/40\.1
       	RewriteRule ^.* - [F,L]
       </IfModule>
       ```
   
 * I’ve also run the site through a HTTP header checker and it looks OK.
 * So I’m no further forward!
 *   Forum: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
   
   In reply to: [Images showing as posts but not present in admin](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/images-showing-as-posts-but-not-present-in-admin/)
 *  Thread Starter [DaRoca](https://wordpress.org/support/users/daroca/)
 * (@daroca)
 * [9 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/images-showing-as-posts-but-not-present-in-admin/#post-7662337)
 * Thanks – I worked out it was attachment pages a few days ago. I’m using AIOSEO
   which doesn’t have a redirect so used [https://wordpress.org/plugins/redirect-unattached-images/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/redirect-unattached-images/)
 *   Forum: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
   
   In reply to: [3.6 upgrade broke site but only when logged in](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/36-upgrade-broke-site-but-only-when-logged-in/)
 *  Thread Starter [DaRoca](https://wordpress.org/support/users/daroca/)
 * (@daroca)
 * [12 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/36-upgrade-broke-site-but-only-when-logged-in/#post-4109310)
 * Hi. Thanks for the tips but no success.
 * I switched off all plugins but the problem remains.
 * I haven’t tried switching theme because it’s a complex one with lots of custom
   settings and I’m not sure if those settings will be lost if I deactivate it. 
   Do you know if widgets, menus, theme settings, etc. will remain if I turn deactivate
   then activate again?
 * I don’t have FTP access to the site so cannot do anything else.
 * Thanks for any further advice you can give.

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