wisekal

Hi,

I resolved my problem with a fresh install. Not sure why I couldn’t do it without reinstalling everything. However site in general seems to be working a whole lot better since reinstalling.

Thanks for your offer to help.

Hi Thienvien,

Thanks for your prompt response but not sure that’s my problem? Or is it as simple as fixing my permalinks and such? Or am I misunderstanding the article?

See what happened is at 3:15 my time, I received a visit from a IP address in Iraq. They used Google Translator to view and obviously translate the website to their language. They visited the website for about 10 minutes and then suddenly I started receiving visits from IP addresses all throughout the world.

Within 10 minutes of the first visit, I suddenly had 100’s of visits from IP addresses located all around the world. No one IP address hit the website more than once. It was always a new IP address.

Then suddenly it got so over-whelming that my server crashed and restarted. I was told this is called “spoofing” but don’t really understand how they manage to do that to my website. I’ve been explained to that they pinged the website to overload my server. Whether it was personal or not, I do not know, but what I do know is that they will NOT stop.

Everytime I open my WordPress website, within hours they are back at it again doing it all over again.

How do I stop this? Can someone please help me? This is really beginning to become frustrating and about ready to do the one thing I don’t want to do… Change to a different website, HTML or something so I can avoid such problems.

Thanks for ANY assistance!

Anyone?

Correction: Now I cannot even get into the editor, everytime I click it I get the error page.

Hi Tracie,

I don’t know if you resolved your problem or not, but I managed to find a resolution to mine.

Instead of uploading the template through “WP-ADMIN”, I went and uploaded the zipped template using FTP Commander, to “WP-CONTENT” > “THEMES”, and once it was uploaded I extracted the contents.

Went to WP-ADMIN and the template was available to activate. I can now customize the template – but had to change a few CHMODS but you will get red text telling you which folders to change CHMODS for.

Hopefully this method works for you as well.

Is there not anyone out there who can help us?

Yeah if I find the answer I will post a response.

I’ve asked on three message boards and still waiting a response. Please do post your findings if you find a resolution ??