Why?
Well for the upgrade process I deactivated the plug-ins for WordPress (including the Captcha! Plugin) because they recommend it in the upgrade docs. All in all the site was back up about 10 minutes until I reactivated the plug-ins, so basically it had it’s trousers down for a short period of time. and what happened?
See for yourself, part of an email in my Inbox:
A new comment on the post #108 “WordPress – Captcha! Plugin and Line Breaks” is waiting for your approval:
Author : George (IP: x.y.z , undefined.x.y.z)
E-mail : Joshua@mail.com
URI : http:///images/_vti_cnf/casino-gambling/
Whois : http://ws.arin.net/cgi-bin/whois.pl?queryinput=x.y.z
I got a spam comment! In exactly ten minutes where the site was “vulnerable”. How ridiculous is that? How often are they trying to spam comment blog sites? I wonder how much traffic they are generating just by trying to hit the comment-post page? Well anyway, I’m very happy that I have my Captcha! Plugin for WP (see here for details). Even though development on it is not being continued, but hey it works!
