A Ghost lives in my website
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Hi,
5 days ago I posted a comment to Wordfence support site but nobody replied since than. 2 days ago I deactivated and deleted Wordfence but the strange events are still happening. Probably the problem is related to WordPress. I’d appreciate any feedback if anyone has a clue what could be the reason and how can I get rid of it. Many thanks. Here comes my post:
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Since I have installed Wordfence strange things happen. Wordfence Live Traffic lists an activity – an attempt to access a particular “non-existent” page – every time I log in to my website. It refers always to the same page, and that page actually exists. If I click on the permalink shown in the Live Traffic item I’m taken to that page with no problem. I can edit it, modify it, just like any other pages on my site.I have another plugin named Counterize which creates nice statistics directly in my Admin Dashboard and lists all (?) access to my site. If I look at it’s Traffic History I can see another interesting stuff – again since I have installed Wordfence: Every time I log in to my site I can see two, almost simultaneous, visit in my Traffic History. One to my home page with Referer ‘Unknown’, which is OK, that’s what I did. But there is another access shown just few milliseconds after that every time: an access to the same page listed in Wordfence Live Traffic with Referer = Home page. I can’t even click so fast, the difference in the time stamp between them is 5-6 milliseconds.
What’s more, similarly strange, Counterize Traffic History always shows another extra access every time I visit other pages, posts or comments on my site. Regardless where do I go in my site, an additional access seems to happen every time.
I’ve got the impression that either Wordfence (or WordPress ?) planted some sort of code somewhere which is executed every time I access a post. I can send screenshots if it helps to figure out whats going on.
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