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<blockquote data-quote="Don Kuykendall_RIP" data-source="post: 165396" data-attributes="member: 6277">I was in Web hosting for several years. A lot of those hits are not people. They are spiders (Web Crawlers)&nbsp; They are used for two different things. The first being web indexes for search engines. The second set is not so nice, they are looking for week points they can exploit. Wordpress is very popular and is prone to attack. You won't always know that you have been compromised. Hidden code can be there just to put links to porn or Viagra. these links are not seen but help them in search engine placement. Find out hao to see the page source code in your browser when you are looking at the site. It will look like this.&lt;!DOCTYPE html&gt; &lt;html lang=&quot;en&quot;&gt; &lt;head&gt; &lt;meta charset=&quot;UTF-8&quot; /&gt; &lt;meta name=&quot;viewport&quot; content=&quot;width=device-width&quot; /&gt; &lt;title&gt;The world through my viewfinder. | My photographic growth with my Nikons&lt;/title&gt; &lt;link rel=&quot;profile&quot; href=&quot;<a href="http://nikonites.com/view-source:http://gmpg.org/xfn/11" target="_blank">http://gmpg.org/xfn/11</a>&quot; /&gt; &lt;link rel=&quot;pingback&quot; href=&quot;<a href="http://nikonites.com/view-source:http://d7100shooter.wordpress.com/xmlrpc.php" target="_blank">http://d7100shooter.wordpress.com/xmlrpc.php</a>&quot; /&gt; &lt;!--[if lt IE 9]&gt; &lt;script src=&quot;http://s0.wp.com/wp-content/themes/pub/fanwood-light/js/html5.js?m=1362430300g&quot; type=&quot;text/javascript&quot;&gt;&lt;/script&gt; &lt;![endif]--&gt;Just look through it once a week and see if you see links to any sites that should not be there. The other thing they do is to exploit the site to send email. YOu can get your site shut down for this one. The main thing to do is to do any and all updates to Wordpress when they come up.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Don Kuykendall_RIP, post: 165396, member: 6277"] I was in Web hosting for several years. A lot of those hits are not people. They are spiders (Web Crawlers) They are used for two different things. The first being web indexes for search engines. The second set is not so nice, they are looking for week points they can exploit. Wordpress is very popular and is prone to attack. You won't always know that you have been compromised. Hidden code can be there just to put links to porn or Viagra. these links are not seen but help them in search engine placement. Find out hao to see the page source code in your browser when you are looking at the site. It will look like this. <!DOCTYPE html> <html lang="en"> <head> <meta charset="UTF-8" /> <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width" /> <title>The world through my viewfinder. | My photographic growth with my Nikons</title> <link rel="profile" href="[URL="http://nikonites.com/view-source:http://gmpg.org/xfn/11"]http://gmpg.org/xfn/11[/URL]" /> <link rel="pingback" href="[URL="http://nikonites.com/view-source:http://d7100shooter.wordpress.com/xmlrpc.php"]http://d7100shooter.wordpress.com/xmlrpc.php[/URL]" />  Just look through it once a week and see if you see links to any sites that should not be there. The other thing they do is to exploit the site to send email. YOu can get your site shut down for this one. The main thing to do is to do any and all updates to Wordpress when they come up. [/QUOTE]

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