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PostPosted: Tue Apr 16, 2013 12:10 pm 
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i develop my site with wordpress. but recently i frequently received disk to rate warnings. the access log of lampp told that some strange visits from strange IPs, they use GET request on wp-comments-post.php and made my comment list full of garbage !!!

i did few things this month, but my outgoing transfer even reached 44.7GB... i've got mad.

since i have stopped the web service of my host, the garbage arrives as soon as i restart web service.

how can i do ... to prevent those garbage robots


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PostPosted: Tue Apr 16, 2013 12:32 pm 
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Your first post....

Possible Suggestions

o Turn off comments until you find a solution.
o Find a (common) comment management tool
o Make sure you keep your WordPress up to date
o Make sure you hardened your WordPress Install (You should have already done this)
o Use Google to find answers to very very common issues.

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PostPosted: Tue Apr 16, 2013 12:46 pm 
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akismet usually does a decent job of preventing spam, you'll probably want to look up some more wordpress anti-spam plugins

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PostPosted: Tue Apr 16, 2013 12:57 pm 
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kbar wrote:
akismet usually does a decent job of preventing spam, you'll probably want to look up some more wordpress anti-spam plugins


im sorry but, i do not only want a method to clean the spams, but to prevent these garbage robots requesting to my host, high influence at my cpu and memory.

help... is there anyone...


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PostPosted: Tue Apr 16, 2013 2:32 pm 
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lesbuy wrote:
kbar wrote:
akismet usually does a decent job of preventing spam, you'll probably want to look up some more wordpress anti-spam plugins


im sorry but, i do not only want a method to clean the spams, but to prevent these garbage robots requesting to my host, high influence at my cpu and memory.

help... is there anyone...



You can somewhat mitigate it. I believe there's plugins like WP-Security that basically display an error once they've made a lot of invalid requests,


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PostPosted: Tue Apr 16, 2013 2:40 pm 
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Either provide enough details for people to help, or sit back and listen to the crickets chirp.
Security thru obscurity is a myth - and really really annoying.


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PostPosted: Tue Apr 16, 2013 4:03 pm 
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You can also try something like https://www.cloudflare.com.

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PostPosted: Sat Apr 20, 2013 7:10 am 
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bryantrv wrote:
You can also try something like https://www.cloudflare.com.


Cloudflare is great. It gets rid of a lot of nasty traffic and makes your site faster.

Update everything, use cloudflare, and check for anti-spam plugins.


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