Have you already disabled the auto-running of wp-cron.php, as in this article?
http://www.boltwebhosting.com/wordpress-optimization/wp-cron-php-how-to-stop-it-from-running-frequently.html If so, and spammers are directly (presumably intentionally) hitting wp-cron.php, you could restrict access to the file in your web server config pretty simply. On Sun, Apr 7, 2013 at 7:52 PM, Barack Obama < [email protected]> wrote: > My website, Bypass-Censorship.org, is getting LOTS of spam traffic from > Tor (specifically in the wp-cron.php script). > > I obviously don't want to block Tor as it's extremely beneficial for > privacy geeks and people from Iran, China, etc, to access my site; however, > I do have an alternative solution that I may need help with. > > Basically what I want to do is add some PHP code in the beginning of > index.php (I use WordPress as my CMS). What the code should do is detect if > the client is using Tor, and if the client is, the script redirects to the > mobile version of my site (mobile.dudamobile.com/site/bypass-censorship - > it is hosted for free on DudaMobile). > > I believe this would be beneficial for two reasons: > > > 1. Spam attacks and hack attacks are useless since it is not on my > primary host (meaning there is no wp-cron.php). > 2. And it will take a huge load off my server (I am well-ranked for > the term "hidden wiki" in Google and Ixquick). > > > Please tell me what you think of this idea, and how I can implement it. > > Thanks, > -BC > > _______________________________________________ > tor-relays mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-relays > >
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