trumpy81

GDay All,

ipstenu, you are quite correct. I have a tendency to group the two together as most spammers are looking to exploit security loopholes.

Also, Bad Behaviour seems to be working well, thanks for the heads-up on that one ??

GDay All,

James, thanks for the reply. I will take your advice and add SI-Captcha in any case. As they say, two heads are better than one …. lol

GDay All,

ipstenu, thanks for the reply. I haven’t had any real problems with spam being left on my site, I was thinking that maybe these registrations are spambots trying to crack the security or otherwise exploit the site.

I’ve taken your advise re: Bad Behaviour and I have it installed right now. I guess time will tell if its beneficial or not.

Again, thanks for the reply and the advice ??

It seems that I answered my own question. I checked a backup copy of .htaccess and it contained the following:

# BEGIN WordPress
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /index.php [L]
</IfModule>
# END WordPress

I added this file to the server and voila! all is working again.

The question that remains is why/how was this file altered?

Esmi, I tried as you suggested to no avail.

I only have 2 plugins, no custom permalinks and changing themes did not resolve this issue.

Also, I noticed there is nothing in my .htaccess file except this:
# BEGIN WordPress

# END WordPress

Should there be anything in it?

My install is pretty much straight out of the box.

Your help is appreciated.