IS IT A VIRUS?: can’t edit-comments, people can’t post comments, also spam

  • Hello,

    I am having trouble with my blog at easylawofattraction.com.

    A few months ago I started getting lots of comment spam. You can see the content of the spam if you check the blog. Lots of mention of the word “mammaria” and “gold”…

    Now what I also noticed around this time was that I could not log in to alter comments on my site anymore. Whenever I would go to edit-comments.php, it would give me a 404 error, even though the web page is clearly there.

    Also, people are not able to comment on my blog anymore. When they try to the page says: “could not open socket”

    Regarding the comment spam, I got the wordpress plugin that makes the commenter fill out a captcha. So I get no more spam. ?? But the other problems I mentioned above are still there.

    Does anyone know what this is? Is it some kind of virus maybe?

    Any help would be really really appreciated.

    All the Best,
    Alex

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  • Thread Starter alexbaranosky

    (@alexbaranosky)

    pretty sure I have 2.5.1 which is the newest non-beta version right?

    I haven’t tried to re-upload the WordPress files… I’ll have to look into it. And also look into trying a new host.

    Thread Starter alexbaranosky

    (@alexbaranosky)

    Anyone have any thoughts on this that haven’t been mentioned?

    Your thoughts are greatly appreciated.

    Thread Starter alexbaranosky

    (@alexbaranosky)

    nothing???

    Moderator Jan Dembowski

    (@jdembowski)

    Forum Moderator and Brute Squad

    Alex,

    Don’t know what to tell you that hasn’t been said above. You don’t have any log data or error messages and you have not confirmed that you have re-uploaded your WordPress files.

    If you have re-uploaded the version and confirmed that the files are pristine, correct, right, pick your favorite euphemism, and you still can’t edit comments, then your server is not behaving rationally.

    Thread Starter alexbaranosky

    (@alexbaranosky)

    How should I go about re-uploading the version?

    Do I just download the files from wordpress.com, and then upload them, letting them write over the old version that is on the server?

    Or is it more complicated than that?

    Thread Starter alexbaranosky

    (@alexbaranosky)

    P.S.

    Should I get the newest version while I’m at it?

    Moderator Jan Dembowski

    (@jdembowski)

    Forum Moderator and Brute Squad

    Do I just download the files from wordpress.com, and then upload them, letting them write over the old version that is on the server?

    Alex, how did you set this up originally? If you can upload the files and overwrite the existing ones, that should work.

    If not then you might want to accelerate your search for a new host.

    Should I get the newest version while I’m at it?

    I would stick with the version you have for now (2.5.1) before trying to upgrade. Once you have your existing version working, then you should consider upgrading to the latest version.

    Thread Starter alexbaranosky

    (@alexbaranosky)

    I originally set it up myself, by uploading the files onto the server. I will try that now.

    Thanks!

    Thread Starter alexbaranosky

    (@alexbaranosky)

    Hey J!

    I so far have only re-uploaded the wp-admin folder, and TADA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

    Thank goodness. =D

    Thank you for the help.

    Thread Starter alexbaranosky

    (@alexbaranosky)

    So I have also uploaded the akismet plugin (which didn’t come with 2.5.1) and now it won’t let me configure akismet with the passcode. It says in a red box:

    “There was a problem connecting to the Akismet server. Please check your server configuration.”

    Thread Starter alexbaranosky

    (@alexbaranosky)

    I think I bypassed that problem by typing the passcode in by hand in the akismet.php file.

    Thread Starter alexbaranosky

    (@alexbaranosky)

    hmmm…

    Something I did in the past 20 minutes messed the edit-comments.php file up again…

    I will try reuploading wp-admin again and make sure not to fiddle with wp-recaptcha

    Moderator Jan Dembowski

    (@jdembowski)

    Forum Moderator and Brute Squad

    Thank you for the help.

    You’re welcome and I’m glad it worked.

    I have a feeling that your free Awardspace doesn’t know how to resolve names on the Internet. That would not prevent people from reaching your blog. But it would prevent Akismet and reCaptcha from being able to resolve host names and connecting to services on the Internet.

    Thread Starter alexbaranosky

    (@alexbaranosky)

    So, it stopped working correctly! It worked once, and since then hasn’t (edit-comments.php) Which is weird, because it hasn’t worked in months it seems… So something I did fixed it and then it broke immediately again…

    I have other things I want to do now, so maybe later.

    Thanks for the help…

    Thread Starter alexbaranosky

    (@alexbaranosky)

    Ahhh I found a discussion on the awardspace.com forums and it seems others are having a similar problem. Hmmm:

    https://forum.awardspace.com/viewtopic.php?p=54896&sid=62b20360998803e6e7951dddea5a8e2d

    I am thinking of upgrading to a pay account, but I don’t want to pay for Awardspace if I will still have the same issues… I would rather switch to a different server…

    Things are unfolding nicely here.

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