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Yes, I consider myself a newbie to WordPress and related programs and maybe this is a dumb question but the level of spammers I seem to attract on my site is seriously causing me to consider taking down my site. I’ve tried to employ multiple spam blockers, including modifying my .htaccess file that checks against known spammer providers, plus using several plug-ins that either ask human questions to block bots and plug-ins to block by IP address etc. and spammers still get through!

What I’m trying to get rid of is this:

The spammers typically avoid making a new Group in Buddy Press and don’t generally mess with forums BUT if you go to Members, sort by activity, the damn spammers add a URL which is clickable and it is the usual payday loan or other garbage. What I find curious from a spammer’s point of view, is this really effective? Who’s going to scan a member’s list and then click on a payday loan site?

My question is HOW or CAN you prevent a new member when registering from somehow adding this crap? I’ve had some clown from Russia add dozens of pages trying to sell illegal steroids using this method. I finally blocked the multiple IP’s and email address this idiot was using. I even got Microsoft to take away his Hotmail accounts.

The problem i am having is i was told to change the register slug to prevent spam and bots, so i did. Then i clicked publish, since i did that now my register page does not work. I change the slug back to register and that didnt fix the problem either. Now the page just gives a redirect error. How can i fix this so the register page works again. is there a way to reset that register page? or create a new one?

So when ever I update a page or change something on my site http://www.barbandits.com i get this error message:
Internal Server Error
The server encountered an internal error or misconfiguration and was unable to complete your request.

Please contact the server administrator, info@biketobeat.com and inform them of the time the error occurred, and anything you might have done that may have caused the error.

More information about this error may be available in the server error log.

Apache Server at barbandit.com Port 80 so this is what my servers error log says: 

[Fri Mar 22 11:40:16 2013] [warn] RSA server certificate CommonName (CN) `Parallels Panel’ does NOT match server name!? [Fri Mar 22 11:40:16 2013] [warn] RSA server certificate CommonName (CN) `Parallels Panel’ does NOT match server name!? [Fri Mar 22 11:40:17 2013] [warn] RSA server certificate CommonName (CN) `Parallels Panel’ does NOT match server name!? [Fri Mar 22 11:40:17 2013] [warn] RSA server certificate CommonName (CN) `Parallels Panel’ does NOT match server name!? [Fri Mar 22 11:42:53 2013] [warn] RSA server certificate CommonName (CN) `Parallels Panel’ does NOT match server name!? [Fri Mar 22 11:42:53 2013] [warn] RSA server certificate CommonName (CN) `Parallels Panel’ does NOT match server name!? [Fri Mar 22 11:42:53 2013] [warn] RSA server certificate CommonName (CN) `Parallels Panel’ does NOT match server name!? [Fri Mar 22 11:42:53 2013] [warn] RSA server certificate CommonName (CN) `Parallels Panel’ does NOT match server name!? [Fri Mar 22 12:00:38 2013] [error] [client 206.113.193.50] File does not exist: /var/www/vhosts/biketobeat.com/site4/robots.txt [Fri Mar 22 12:05:27 2013] [error] [client 144.76.14.112] File does not exist: /var/www/vhosts/biketobeat.com/site4/robots.txt [Fri Mar 22 12:51:24 2013] [warn] [client 70.98.130.46] mod_fcgid: stderr: PHP Warning: call_user_func_array() expects parameter 1 to be a valid callback, function ‘update_table’ not found or invalid function name in /var/www/vhosts/biketobeat.com/site4/wp-includes/plugin.php on line 406, referer: http://barbandit.com/wp-admin/update.php?action=install-plugin&plugin=rate-this-page-plugin&_wpnonce=54f31fa6a0 %5BFri Mar 22 12:51:25 2013] [warn] [client 70.98.130.46] mod_fcgid: stderr: WordPress database error You have an error in your SQL syntax; check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right syntax to use near ‘AND is_page = ‘false” at line 1 for query SELECT * FROM wp_feedbacks_summary WHERE post_id = AND is_page = ‘false’ made by require_once(‘wp-admin/admin-header.php’), do_action(‘admin_print_scripts’), call_user_func_array, print_head_scripts, do_action(‘wp_print_scripts’), call_user_func_array, aft_plgn_jquery_init, aft_plgn_fetch_rate_summary, referer: http://barbandit.com/wp-admin/update.php?action=install-plugin&plugin=rate-this-page-plugin&_wpnonce=54f31fa6a0 

Can anyone help me out, I know only the basics..obvious I know

WordPress 3.5.1 and BuddyPress 1.7 Beta1

http://www.gumpolen.com

In the middle of the night someone registered a new account and created a new site — all in the same minute. They sure are fast! I don’t know what’s typical about web robots and such, so I thought I would mention this to see what others think.

The username is a woman’s name, but the site is “Absolutely Free Shipping And Delivery [on a product of sorts].

Is this spam? I don’t have a problem with new accounts whatsoever, but I don’t know what’s real or not.

–Kevin

Hi I currently am running buddypress at this URL: http://www.writeandshare.co.uk

I did a google search on the email address: trista.abbas@yahoo.com and confirmed that ther is some bot going around.

Somehow this bot has managed to use the message feature to send a spam email to all of our users. I am baffled as to how this could happen. I don’t appear to have been hacked. The database and files all look in tact.

I’m used to bots making spam comments, and I have spam filter for that which works. What really concerns me is how this bot was able to get to the private messages.

Any ideas?