Danwhite1234

Fair enough. So every time it gets hijacked, we need to create a new UA id to get around it then?

Until next time…

You sure about that Samuel? It seems odd that I would have someone/thing/whatever “Samara” based able to be seen on the real-time view at various times, and occasionally staying there for more than 5 mins.

I did find this which will(should) stop them based on if you’re happy not to get any traffic from Russia, you need NGINX, amend the codes as per your linux distro. https://www.howtoforge.com/nginx-how-to-block-visitors-by-country-with-the-geoip-module-debian-ubuntu

It’s not just on WP, my personal website is CodeIgniter and this is getting 20+ hits a day. I have tried everything possible via htaccess and nothing seems to work. I am very keen to resolve this once and for all and can’t believe for one second that it is in fact unbeatable. For those who think it’s harmless, you are very mistaken. There is no such thing as harmless or purposeless spam. Although nothing sinister has happened yet, it does not mean that nothing will. Furthermore if some @&￡! Is making money out of this (main motive for doing stuff like this), as a community must find a solution to put an end to it and fast.