BreezyOhio

Sorry for the typo. It was not intentional. Yes, as I see it it’s some kind of memory leak that builds as live traffic runs over time. It’s a shame because I use live traffic to monitor my site traffic. I have a small specialty site so when I get 10 serious visitors a day that’s good to know where they are coming from (approximately) and how long they stuck around as well as what pages they visit and in what order.

I hope they get it fixed soon. To be frank, I think the previous version had a leak too but it small enough that it never made the browser unresponsive like this one does.

Mandigit, The way to tell is to open your favorite browser, open task manager, and see the cpu usage. It’s easier to do it in FF because it’s a single file rather a series files like Chrome is.

Anyway, at any given time I have about a hundred tabs loaded up in FF .. displayed really .. they don’t load till you click them. Let’s say I have maybe 30 or 40 actually loaded.

If you have a “clean” FF installation it will sit there with next to no CPU usage. In my case that’s around 5% cpu, and and about a gig of memory because of all those tabs. It runs like that all day, day after day.

When I load my Wordfence Live traffic page though, cpu goes to 25-30%, and memory starts creeping up. An hour later my FF is slow to load or switch pages and the UI slows down. Another hour later I have to restart FF.

So there you go .. this is typical of what a memory leak looks like. Over time things deteriorate.

FYI .. the .4 update does not fix the memory leak in live traffic view in the slightest.

Just an update on the memory leak issue .. even when the traffic page is not set to LIVE, there is a memory leak that builds over time, so it’s not just live traffic monitoring, it’s also the applet when the traffic is turned off. WF version 6.1.3 on WP 4.5

BTW, it does take a few hours for this to happen in my case, the memory leak that is.

I just wanted to let you know that there is a memory leak in live traffic when it’s enabled. I’ve spent 3 days tracing it down. Previously I thought it was the browser (FF) since both were updated at about the same time. If you need memory outputs email me. They are not anonymous so I won’t post them here.

With me monitoring two sites with live traffic I was getting browser lockups, slowed performance, non responsives, etc. I’m on version 4.5

I do but it’s not as detailed as Live Traffic. For me live traffic is much better. Even if you could just get the data in chunks you could build up quite a history and track.

Analytic s has changed a lot since I first used it for monitoring my site. It’s full of crap and does not give me exact IPs, etc. I really stopped using it much when Google allowed “not set” for locations, etc.

So there is no difference in the paid version and free one in this respect?

I run a low traffic site and can follow my hits for interested prospects and to weed out low level attacks.

For some reason, for instance there are a lot of attempts to enter the site via profile edit pages. I imagine that’s fairly normal for everyone but it’s good for me to understand. I find live traffic very useful.

This whole permanent thing is disturbing .. also I don’t know if anyone has tried this but exporting a site’s settings to another site DOESN’T export blocked IPs .. very annoying.

BTW, I’ve started a new thread on the blank user name admin login issue ..
https://www.ads-software.com/support/topic/there-appears-to-be-a-serious-vulnerability-here?replies=7#post-6635559

I thought I could “permanently” block IPs too. What does permanent mean?

Yes, I’ve even pleaded with them to search the hosting box for any of these vulnerabilities, which in the case of the generic.029 attack is pretty easy because of the long identical text it inserts in php files. They had no interest and claimed, of course, that all their servers are constantly monitored and scanned. blah blah blah ..

That’s one of the many problems you get in trying to decipher an attack and plug holes. As a hosting customer you only get to see part of the story. It also annoys me to no end how a file can be modified without changing the file date. Not much I can do about that stuff though. I’m with a “very good” hosting company.

It seems to me that the Internet backbone and integrity erodes by the day .. something that only works 98% of the time just isn’t reliable enough to bank on these days .. just reflect on what’s happened to emails .. now many people don’t even read them because they have lost faith in them being anything other than a sales message. Of course most of those are people that cannot/do not manage email security. They are incapable to manage security and just want stuff to happen. Yeah, I want stuff to just happen too .. but that is not the way the Internet is today. Hosting every presence .. website, blog, sales platforms, merchanting, emails .. they all require more time and effort than most people realize.

Oh one more critical details I forgot to mention .. around the time of these no user name accesses all my plugins were disabled via a rewrite of the index.php file in the plugins folder. This was a bit clever because it disabled all the automatic security measures I have in place such as Succuri and Wordfence .. both of which are plugins.

I noticed it right way because I wasn’t getting any reports from either. BTW at that same point all of my php files were rewritten to include hacked code, called the generic.029 attack by Sucurri. That attack is associated with a plugin I have never used on any site. I would guess that the author of that attack found a way to hack a WP site independent of plugin.

Jan, thanks for the reply. This isn’t my first rodeo, and I’ve been to these same sites when my site was hacked in October of 2014. The site was resurected from a very old backup to ensure that it was a clean backup and it was on a new site build by the hosting company. I run Succuri and Wordfence together and both were running when this “no user name” hack got into my site.

BTW, in addition I do NOT edit my php files and only run common plugins, and not many of those. I also shut down all my FTP connections and deleted any unused themes so I’m pretty vigilant about site security, though I’m sure that I could do more.

However, this “no user name admin hack” has me very concerned. It had to come from a vulnerability and with the 2 sites that I have .. they share no common plugins or themes .. it kind of suggests that it was done via a WordPress vulnerability.

I cannot understand the logic of not dedicating a separate forum to hacking methods and site vulnerabilities. Day by day, WP attacks seem to go up.

BTW, unmaskparasites.com is shutting down.

One more thing .. here is a post of relentless IP attacks on WP sites that are ongoing and I think related to this the actions listed in the previous posts.

Note that the IPs that constantly attack by trying to login as “admin” are largely on the same network, but not the same IPs as the ones listed above.

https://www.ads-software.com/support/topic/repeated-attempts-to-log-in-to-admin/page/3?replies=72#post-6632838