Possible malware on my blog

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    beholdplaneswalker · Member ·

    Hello,

    When I go to my stats page on my blog, I get prompted to download something called ‘calypso’ onto my computer to increase the storage of wordpress stuff on my local disk from 5 MB to 10MB. This started yesterday. This has never happened before, and I have reason to believe my blog was visited by some kind of strange bot yesterday (something seems to have clicked every link out of several of my posts–not normal human behavior). It all seems very weird, and I suspect the download is some kind of malware. Please advise–is this actually from wordpress, and if it is not, how can I make it stop prompting me to download?

    Have a good day,

    -Beck

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    timmydcrawford · Member ·

    Hello Beck-
    “calypso” is the name of the database that WordPress.com uses to store data locally to help make your administrative dashboard ( like Stats ) work faster. So yes you can safely say “OK” to increasing the size on your local disk. Alternatively, you can clear out your cache in Safari using these instructions: https://en.support.wordpress.com/how-to-clear-your-cache-in-safari/

    I took a quick look at your stats and noticed you had a bump on January 13, is that what you are referring to?

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    beholdplaneswalker · Member ·

    Oh, okay, thank you.

    No, I know what the 13th was from–yesterday (1/22) I had an unusual number of clicks to hyperlinks in my posts relative to the number of visitors I received (over 180 link clicks versus 18 views from 6 visitors)–this struck me as very strange, so I thought it might be a bot that clicks every link or something like that (I’m not very knowledgeable about bots, just doesn’t seem like something a human reader would do).

    Thank you again,

    -Beck

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    timmydcrawford · Member ·

    Oh I see all the clicks from yesterday now. It appears that the majority of the clicks were to images you have linked from other sites. Since the click stat is recorded when an actual click event is registered on your page, vs a bot crawling your page and visiting links, I would imagine someone was just very interested in the images you had linked and spent time browsing them.

    Thank you again

    Happy to help answer any other questions you might have.

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