A bot is posting on my blog
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I have to keep deleting them. How can I stop this from happening?
The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)
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If anyone or any bot is posting anything to your blog then you have provided them with the ability to do so either deliberately by adding them as official users, or by allowing them access to your login information, or by posting content that makes it easy for them to guess what your log-in information is.
Who, aside from you, has access to your login information?
Go to your email program and change the password to a very difficult one because that’s how many hackers gain access to blogs1. If you can log-in go here > Users > All Users and delete any user that does not belong there.
2. Disable post by email > http://en.support.wordpress.com/post-by-email/
3. Disable post by voice > http://en.support.wordpress.com/post-by-voice/
4. Change your blog password to a very difficult one > http://en.support.wordpress.com/passwords/#change-your-password
5. Use a secure, encrypted connection to connect to your Dashboard. Under Users → Personal Settings, check the box that says “Always use HTTPS when visiting administration pages, and click Save Changes.
6. Set up two step authentication http://en.support.wordpress.com/security/two-step-authentication/
Then read this please knowing that blogs don’t get hacked when security protocols are followed. > http://en.support.wordpress.com/security/
P.S. I flagged this for Staff follow-up.
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As there is only one user on this blog, you should be the only person able to post to it. If someone else is creating posts, then that suggests either your email account or your WordPress.com account has been compromised, or you share your computer with someone else.
You should change your email and WordPress.com passwords IMMEDIATELY.
Please let me know if you have any other questions about this.
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I already changed the blog password to a strong one. Made a NEW email with a strong password and linked it to this blog. But still we got a spam post this morning…
I’m out of ideas….
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I marked the post as private if you want to check it out. I’ve also done everything in the first post.
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I even set up the two step authentication…still just got this spam post.
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I’ve set the blog to private because customers are getting emails that we’re getting these complains from “D&B”.
Please someone help. My only thought is re-doing the whole thing but that just does not seem necessary.
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It looks like your situation was resolved privately, so I am going to close this forums post.
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