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Possible Hacking

  • theimperfectmodeller · Member · Apr 2, 2018 at 1:54 pm
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    I have today started to receive ‘likes’ to comments I have posted from ‘undesirable’ and unknown sources, how can a block these?

    The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)

  • justjennifer · Member · Apr 2, 2018 at 4:52 pm
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    I see what you mean on this post.

    I don’t think it’s possible to block these spam comment likes just as it’s not possible to block spam likes. You can report these users for abuse on Gravatar, but the quickest solution is to turn off comment likes from your My Sites’ dashboard>Sharing https://wordpress.com/sharing/buttons/

    Regardless I’ve gone ahead and tagged this thread for Staff attention. Thanks for your patience while they get back to you.

  • staff-zinnia · Staff · Apr 2, 2018 at 6:37 pm
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    I’m going to second what justjennifer has said. The only way to eliminate the unwanted attention is to turn off the likes.

  • theimperfectmodeller · Member · Apr 2, 2018 at 8:11 pm
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    Thank you for comments. Is there a danger to my site do you know or it just a nuisance?

  • justjennifer · Member · Apr 3, 2018 at 7:27 am
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    Only a nuisance. Those spam Likers have no access to the backend (admin) your site.

  • staff-zinnia · Staff · Apr 3, 2018 at 3:49 pm
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    It’s just a pain in the butt – nothing more :)

  • theimperfectmodeller · Member · Apr 3, 2018 at 3:57 pm
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    Thank you.

  • staff-zinnia · Staff · Apr 3, 2018 at 4:02 pm
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    Absolutely, my pleasure :)

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