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mareksgregs replied to the topic Untraceable spam user in the forum How-to & Troubleshooting 11 years, 5 months ago
I’ve already removed the plugin. Since I didn’t even use it.
Do I really need to change database password too? How could they even access my database? -
mareksgregs replied to the topic Untraceable spam user in the forum How-to & Troubleshooting 11 years, 5 months ago
The scan found only one problem, which is:
This file may contain malicious executable code
Filename: wp-content/plugins/user-meta/framework/init.php
File type: Not a core, theme or plugin file.
Issue first detected: 45 secs ago.
Severity: Critical
Status New
This file is a PHP executable file and contains an eval() function and base64() decoding… -
mareksgregs replied to the topic Untraceable spam user in the forum How-to & Troubleshooting 11 years, 5 months ago
I deleted the user from the database yesterday(in which it didn’t have an email either) yesterday. And it hasn’t come back yet. I think it may be finally gone. 🙂
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mareksgregs replied to the topic Untraceable spam user in the forum How-to & Troubleshooting 11 years, 5 months ago
@jconti What am I supposed to look for in those files?
And I found the user in the users database. Should I delete it? -
mareksgregs replied to the topic Untraceable spam user in the forum How-to & Troubleshooting 11 years, 5 months ago
I think I found out why it says Error – 101 too. When I click “Recheck”, it says “The selected user couldn’t be found on users table”.
So does that mean that it’s beyond user database? o_oEdit: There’s still no email.
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mareksgregs replied to the topic Untraceable spam user in the forum How-to & Troubleshooting 11 years, 5 months ago
I just deleted the user again, and it re-appeared 5 seconds later, but this time Wangguard logged an IP! This means progress!
Any suggestions for how to ban the IP now?
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mareksgregs replied to the topic Untraceable spam user in the forum How-to & Troubleshooting 11 years, 5 months ago
@ubernaut I tried that Wangguard plugin (thanks for introducing it to me by the way, it’s awesome) and when I scanned the user, it’s status came back as “Error – 101”
I don’t see how my site could be hacked though. Perhaps the problem is in one of my plugins. Unlikely though. All of my active plugins are legit and shouldn’t have spam bots in…[Read more]
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mareksgregs replied to the topic Untraceable spam user in the forum How-to & Troubleshooting 11 years, 5 months ago
@ubernaut Oh I forgot to mention, there isn’t an email associated with the account either.
I think that something in the files may be creating it over and over again. Would that be possible? -
mareksgregs started the topic Untraceable spam user in the forum How-to & Troubleshooting 11 years, 5 months ago
I have a user by the username of “user.firstnameuser.lastname” and it keeps spamming the Groups section of my site.
I’ve deleted it for about 30 times by now. But it just keeps coming back. And what’s really odd is that it has no Registration IP or any IP associated with it. The sign up is not showing up in the Activity log either.Is there a way…[Read more]
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