By Bob4613 on

I've searched through the other posts and could not find anything related to this issue.

I've been receiving a lot of page not found errors in my "Recent Log Entries" that show attempts to access non-existing pages on my site. None of this pages exist on my site and there is nothing like these in my sitemap. See below

page not found 09/20/2008 - 19:36 administrator/components/com_color/admin.color.php Anonymous
page not found 09/20/2008 - 19:30 administrator/components/com_joom12pic/admin.joom12p ... Anonymous
page not found 09/20/2008 - 19:07 administrator/components/com_wmtgallery/admin.wmtgal ... Anonymous
page not found 09/20/2008 - 18:45 components/com_mambatstaff/mambatstaff.php Anonymous
page not found 09/20/2008 - 17:15 administrator/components/com_cropimage/admin.cropcan ... Anonymous
page not found 09/20/2008 - 16:51 components/com_slideshow/admin.slideshow1.php Anonymous
page not found 09/20/2008 - 15:06 administrator/components/com_wmtportfolio/admin.wmtp ... Anonymous

So is this something I should be concerned about? Is there a way to block these attempts?

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scoutbaker’s picture

scoutbaker commented

This looks like an attempt to find mambo and/or joomla adminstratvie pages.

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Bob4613’s picture

Bob4613 commented

Thanks for the info. I guess since I'm running Drupal, I should not have to worry about these attempts, but I'm sure there are trolls who will be doing the same thing for Drupal sites.

So if I see a number of "Access Denied" attempts to my Drupal admin pages, what would be the best thing to do?

Thanks,

MrGeek’s picture

MrGeek commented

i used to see dozens, if not hundreds of these every day - but between the use of the BadBehavior module and the TROLL module, i've cut it wayy down..
The Badbehavior module blocks most of them.. the few that get thru i add the IP to the TROLL module.. Using these modules is also great for blocking scrapers and spammers/trolls..