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Someone had spammed my WP homepage with 24,578 post of Spam including categorizing it in every U.S. state.

What to do?.


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#578 #post #spam
  • Profile picture of the author bsmith
    Grab a mass post deletion plugin and delete them.

    https://www.google.com/search?q=word...ient=firefox-a

    There's several free ones to choose from. All I've ever tried worked the same way though.

    Here's the one I've used most recently:

    http://www.wesg.ca/2008/07/wordpress...-page-remover/
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  • Profile picture of the author MYDCOM
    Wow that's a crazy amount of spam post. Did this happen overnight?
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  • Profile picture of the author Joseph Robinson
    Banned
    Take a screenshot, because that is pretty darn epic.

    Then do what bsmith said.
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  • Profile picture of the author Always-A-Warrior
    I already deleted the other State categories and this is what it looks like.
    24,578 post of spam since Monday.

    North Carolina (294 Posts)
    North Dakota (23 Posts)
    Pennsylvania (439 Posts)
    Rhode Island (48 Posts)
    South Carolina (247 Posts)
    South Dakota (43 Posts)
    Texas (776 Posts)
    Uncategorized (13267 Posts)
    Utah (267 Posts)
    Vermont (242 Posts)
    Virginia (344 Posts)
    Washington (566 Posts)
    West Virginia (247 Posts)
    Wisconsin (1286 Posts)
    Wyoming (109 Posts)

    Grrrrrrrr ..... and I didnt create any State categories. They did.
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  • Profile picture of the author sbucciarel
    Banned
    lol ... that's one busy spammer
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  • Profile picture of the author ArcherWylde
    Also recommend signing up for Askimet, it's free for the account and the plugin comes pre-installed in WordPress.

    This can prevent a good deal of spam and is IP address based. Chances are for someone to get 24,000+ posts to your site they used at least one IP address that had been black listed by Askimet.
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  • Profile picture of the author jaghananet
    Wow - what the hell happened? You really need some more anti spam protection - they seem like xrumer forum spam which usually gets caught in the spam filter.
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