HELP ME!!! Website is being attacked

Discussion in 'Security' started by thekingofkings, Nov 20, 2009.

  1. #1
    Don't know where to post this..

    I'm getting practically a comment and visit from some bot thing on my wordpress website every other minute.

    All the IPs and adresses are different.

    How do I stop this? I have a limited amount of web space and I'm worried they'll take my website down in a few hours?

    I'd be willing to give my Cpanel and WP details to someone who knows their stuff and has good user feedback.

    I need some help, like now. Does anyone have any experience with something similar? I need to stop this ASAP or my website runs out of bandwidth in a few hours
     
    thekingofkings, Nov 20, 2009 IP
  2. Christian Little

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    #2
    Put in a captcha plugin and akismet, that will stop it.
     
    Christian Little, Nov 20, 2009 IP
  3. thekingofkings

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    Done. Will this also stop the traffic, aswell as the spam comments?
     
    thekingofkings, Nov 20, 2009 IP
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    It won't stop the traffic directly. You can't really stop traffic bots, but they'll drop your site off their list once they realize you've blocked their bot from working on your site.

    This shouldn't be sucking up that much bandwidth for a blog anyways, so you should be fine.
     
    Christian Little, Nov 20, 2009 IP
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    I don't know your mean thekingofkings

    Do you want to stop bots visit your blog?
    Login to WP Admin
    Settings --> Privacy --> I would like to block search engines, but allow normal visitors

    To anti spam comment?
    Yes, install plugin catpcha, I like "SI CAPTCHA Anti-Spam"
    As you known, spammer post comment allways include his/her url
    Settings --> Discussion
    In "Comment Blacklist" textarea type:
    
    http://
    https://
    www.
    .com
    .net
    .org
    .info
    Code (markup):
     
    baonhi41, Dec 24, 2009 IP