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November 26, 2003
Odd Activity
I've found something odd in my activity log....3 separate searches for the term "search", apparently coming from an IP in Italy. Seems like I vaguely remember that being a way to hack a webpage, though I haven't been able to track that down so far.
Anyone have any ideas what might be going on?
Posted by Rita at November 26, 2003 05:54 AM
Comments
I've not idea about that, but I hope it's not someone wanting to hack your site.
I just wanted to say I hope you have a great thanksgiving. ((HUGS))
Posted by: Tam at November 26, 2003 02:26 PM
I've had that happen several times also. I don't know about hacking, but one spammer posted his spam with all kinds of sex links in the comment to my blog post about searching my blog vs. searching the rest of my website. I thought it was odd that someone searched for that. I thought maybe the comments for that post got spammed because someone thought it would get more search engine hits there.
Posted by: suzi at November 26, 2003 07:35 PM
It might be a spammer. Just in case, you may want to get rid of and/or install the fix for your "mt-send-entry.cgi" file -- that's a script used to post entries to your weblog via email. Spammers have found a way to use it to send spam that looks like it's coming from your server. (Source: here.) I deleted mine, since I don't use it. I hope this doesn't mean that spammer are now going to use the MT search script to do something evil.
Posted by: Andrea Harris at November 29, 2003 05:17 PM