Hi guys so I am quite worried. Today when I logged on I looked at my wp dashboard and I don't see anything out of the ordinary. My traffic was about 110 for today which is great for me, but then I noticed my comments. I had about 20 comments on my site originally which had been good comments all approved by myself. However when I looked at it, it stated that I had over 100 comments. I thought that it was maybe an article gone popular on digg or something, but then I looked at my spam section. There are 80 spam comments and growing ever minute. So what is happening? Is this a DoS attack on my website? Or a brute force server hit? How can I stop this and what can I do to make sure its not going to really affect my website? Any help would be greatly appreciated!
80 and you're worried about a DDoS attack? Some of us get 80 an hour. Akismet has issues with censorship and it's status as a GPL licensee. Give Typepad's solution a try: http://antispam.typepad.com
dunno I have heard rumors that this is how a DDoS attack starts and I just wanted to be sure. This is the first real amount of spam I have received on my website ever! Bear in mind it has only been up 3 1/2 months and I am only 16! I do have askimet installed, thank god! And it has caught all of the spam. Btw is there any protection one can take to make sure that his/her website is totally safe from hackers trying to put down the servers or hack wp/phpbb?
Just to make you feel better, we stopped 2.1+ million spams at the routers yesterday on my racks from known black IP addresses. (ie China, ev1/theplanet, etc.) That's known spam. We average another 5+ million stopped at the client level using our antispam service. That's really something your host should be working with you on when it comes to the server. But best bet would be to google for 'security' followed by the software you;re using. Hope this helps, -drmike
yeah it does a lot! Thanks Btw I take it that in places like china there is no such thing as the computer misuse act etc...? The acts that generally stop people from becoming black hackers over here.
No, it;s all financial for the most part: http://garwarner.blogspot.com/2009/06/spam-crisis-in-china.html http://www.livescience.com/technology/090624-china-spam.html http://www.pcworld.com/article/116300/china_struggles_with_spam.html We don;t block the country but there's a lot of IP addresses and block of addresses wherer we've never seen anything but spam.