Reply To: Brute force and Four-oh-four Attacks
@modx – I have had a similar thing, but not sure exactly what you are describing in your situation, and your screen shot did not show up.
I suggest downloading a copy of your “raw access logs” – first and foremost.
You may have a situation like I ran into where you need to add a robots.txt to block the baiidu spider (all several of them) – and the sogu spider.. also the majestic spider and the hrefs ones.. you may also want to add a few allow/deny directives in your htaccess to block some ip addy blocks..
Again I am not sure if your exact situation, but I ran into something like this recently, and it led me to an unanswered support post at the wp forums – and I found the best way to patch the problem was these things, although I still think more could be done with some advanced htaccess blocking rules using regex – which I am not overly proficient with yet.
