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Originally Posted by PamWinterReturns
Pretty sad how gullible people are when falling for these. In my past I was on the other side, finding them and helping shutting them down. Newbies here need to learn about knowledgeable hosts, open ports, how to detect open ports and how to avoid exploits.
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Sure you were.
Mostly these exploits happen via brute force logins on insecure Wordpress installations. Every one of them happens over port 80 (you know that port for websites) so blocking port 80 would simply make your website inaccessible.
The prevention measures are simple, run up to date code (Wordpress & Plugins) and use strong passwords. You don't need to worry about blocking ports.