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Thank you so much! That is exactly what the issue was.

Really appreciate the help ??

Thanks for the update. I also reactivated mine on monday, I’ve noticed however that my infolinks is registering about a quarter of the views it was prior to this issue (linear drop in revenue as well). Traffic has not changed since before the issue. Anyone else see this problem?

Hi Everyone,

Just figured I’d let people know that this turned out to be infolinks causing the issue. They have since remedied the problem and all is well.

Cheers!

Infolinks got back to me and said the issue has been fixed.

Same here. Anyone reactivated infolinks yet? Is it really fixed?

Thanks!

Changing infolinks to use site jquery in the plugin does not fix the issue.

I’ve disabled infolinks, lets see if it solves the issue for me as well.

Good stuff. I noticed my infolinks plugin was set to use plugin jquery. I switched it to use site jquery. I’m wondering if that could fix it. I’ll let you know if I notice a change over the next couple hours. If not I’ll disable it like everyone else did.

Thanks!

Glad to know I’m not alone here. Hopefully we can find a solution to this

That says it all.

It’s BOTS. Coming from any URL that they can.

As much as ai hate to say it,but… your sites are just the next in a vey long line of sits that have been targeted. Mine have, others have, and now yours have.

That’s kind of what I figured and actually a bit of a relief. I mean it’s less in my control to fix than if it were a site issue but going through all the parts of my site to find an issue would have been very cumbersome and time consuming. I will try and get Cloudflare set up properly to thwart this. When I looked in to this originally and found that one of the paths the traffic was coming from was spyware that gets installed on people’s computers and basically hijacks their machine (like a DDOS attack). This had me questioning if its an attack or not because this hasn’t killed my server yet… I am on a VPS so maybe it’s robust enough to handle the spike, or maybe it’s because the pageloads are from only a couple ips at a time rather than a DDOS being from thousands of ips simultaneously?

Same problem here.
My issues started yesterday, early.

Thousands of visits to undefined lists. Many came from Xlhost.com then some from rackspace. I am on bluehost.

Being a wordpress site there are ads on my 404 pages (the error loads within the theme). I’m not sure if this is correlated or not but yesterday my revenue was way down. Didn’t notice any extra adsense clicks from the bots however.

This is insanely frustrating, best Bluehost suggested was that i use cloudflare (which has caused issues for my site in the past), I am reluctant to reactive cloudflare :/
Here is the link to the post I just made (before finding yours) regarding this issue: https://www.ads-software.com/support/topic/is-this-an-attack-or-a-website-issue?replies=2#post-7578523 Shows all my installed plugins.

Any help would be great.

Here is a list of all plugins currently installed, not all are active however. Ones that are inactive will be marked as such.

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Advanced Excerpt
Any Mobile Theme Switcher Pro – Inactive
Background Manager – Inactive
Backlink Rechecker
Better WordPress Minify
Bulk Delete
CloudFlare
Code Snippets – Inactive
Comments Evolved for WordPress – Inactive
Configurable Tag Cloud – Inactive
Contact Us
Custom Background From Media Library – Inactive
Disqus Comment System
Email Subscribers
EWWW Image Optimizer
Facebook Like Box
Facebook Open Graph, Google+ and Twitter Card Tags – Inactive
Google AdSense
Google XML Sitemaps – Inactive
Graphene Mobile Neo Helper – Inactive
Infolinks Official Plugin
Jetpack by WordPress.com
Jetpack Post Views
Mobile Theme Ads for Jetpack – Inactive
Notify Bar – Inactive
Official StatCounter Plugin
oik-privacy-policy
oik base plugin
Online Backup for WordPress
Page-list – Inactive
Reaction Buttons
Remove Author Pages – Inactive
Simple Facebook Plugin
Simple Share Buttons Adder
Simple Trackback Validation with Topsy Blocker
Site Background Slider – Inactive
TPC! Memory Usage – Inactive
UpdraftPlus – Backup/Restore
Verify Bing Webmaster Tools
W3 Total Cache – Inactive
WP-HTML-Compression – Inactive
WP-PageNavi – Inactive
WP Clean Up
WP Super Cache
WP Super Snow – Inactive
Yoast SEO
YOP Poll – Inactive
Youtube shortcode

Thanks!