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Change your wordpress footprint.
Mass blog "checks" are performed by the hackers to find a certain version of wordpress running that is vunerable to attack.
Typically they search google using a unique wordpress footprint, to spit out 1,000,000 sites using wordpress, then they check the version of each one.
By removing/changing these footprints present on every wordpress install, you leave yourself open to less attacks & less comment spam.
Of course once they find a nest-egg of installs on one "host", they may look up their allocated ip range & start searching every ip owned by said host. Not just for wordpress, but they usually have an entire list of exploits at that point, to perform a more precise scan of the host's ips...or domains. Including joomla, wordpress, mysql, & every other exploit in their list, which i would typically imagine being several thousand.
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