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Bogged down by bots

edited December 2011 in Airborn Posts: 9
Hi there

I have the airborn theme at the moment but am being attacked by bots left right and center and have my hosting company threatening to disable my account if its not fixed.

They believe it's to do with a bot crawling the comments form and sending thousands of email - please help!

Thanks

Dan

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  • AirAir
    Posts: 10,970
    Hi there.

    It is common wordpress problem. You can turn off comments, or add some captcha plugin to solve this.

    With regards.
  • Hi there

    It's appears to be the themes comments form that's being exploited as bots are picking up my email address from it and sending junk. I've tried recaptcha's but they don't seem to integrate into the form - can you recommend any that will work with it?

    Thanks

    Dan
  • AirAir
    edited December 2011 Posts: 10,970
    Sorry danny for making you wait. Anyway theme don't give your e-mail, but yes they can use form to send junk. I will check what can be done for integration with some plugin.

    With regards.
    Post edited by Air on
  • AirAir
    Posts: 10,970
    Just checked and plugins interact correctly with comment form. Example http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/captcha/installation/
    and view:
    http://demo.csshover.pl/2011/09/15/alien-movie-left-sidebar/

    With regards.
  • edited December 2011 Posts: 9
    Thanks!

    Dan
    Post edited by danny_t on
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