Securing Cron.php

[maknet]

After racking my brain for a bit, I found a previous thread (which I'm not allowed to respond to, since it's too old).

 

http://forum.whmcs.com/showthread.php?17331-can-we-secure-cron-php

 

I'm posting this in case anyone else had the same issues. My response is below.

 

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I got the same thing over here. Took a while to figure out why I was getting random cron jobs at odd hours.

 

Who knows if it's actually Alexa or not. The IP address (174.129.228.67) is coming from Amazon (cloud?). I'd assume that if the server was malicious, it'd be shut down by now.

 

My current plan is to just rename the cron.php and hope that will fix it.

[Infopro]

Have you seen the docs here:

Further Security Steps - WHMCS Documentation

[sentq]

change your admin folder name: http://docs.whmcs.com/Further_Security_Steps#Change_your_WHMCS_Admin_Folder_Name