Message from Lycos

  • Any idea what Lycos is on about here and, more to the point, what I can do about it?

    “Dear Lycos Customer,

    After checking your account at Lycos Webhosting [our-blog-address],
    we have noticed that you are currently running an insecure file [our-blog-address]/wordpress/xmlrpc.php which causes PHP Abuse. Since your account is on our shared hosting platform, this creates performance issues for all our customers, you included.

    Instead of locking your complete account, we have decided to deactivate the file using FTP permissions, so that you have the possibility to look at the file, adjust it and later reset the FTP permissions to activate it again.

    Thank you for your understanding and consideration of this matter.

    Kind Regards

    Your Lycos Webhosting Team.
    ”

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  • Probably dont want their servers talking to other servers.
    Get a new host.

    icundell, where is your blog, what is the url?

    is this it?

    https://blog.verulamwriterscircle.org.uk/

    That email reads as if they think there is something specifically wrong with the file that can be fixed — not that they dont allow it to be used — or they wouldnt allow you to “re-enable” it.

    I would email them back, explain that you are using the most current versdion of WordPress, and that that file is included in the most current WordPress distribution.

    You might also want to ask them to point out specific problems they have with it, if any.

    Just had a very similar message from Lycos regarding a phpBB file viewtopic.php, so it’s not specifically a WordPress issue. I don’t think this file has changed since installation, so perhaps either they are responding to some security alert, or some heuristic tets is giving false positive.

    -jmb

    Moderator Samuel Wood (Otto)

    (@otto42)

    www.remarpro.com Admin

    Drop ’em. Get a better webhost.

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