It would be interesting to know what has triggered the interest. Interesting indeed, a web search shows that there is a published exploit for my comment system. Further investigation indicates that I have been compromised, although this appears to be primarily an act of vandalism. I had tried to install a comment system earlier and had problems. I now find that none of the comment boxes on the sites that I have checked are working. It appears that the software can not make connection with the database. I will have to investigate further.

This was not an act of vandalism, after all. In fact, I don’t have any idea what all of the visitors are doing. The database seems to be in good order. The problem was that I had inadvertently changed a password for the database, so the software could not access the database. I had run across an article script that used a database. I had reused a user name and given it a different password, which evidently overwrote the original password. So, It was me shooting myself in the foot, rather than Kurdish bad guys or their adherents.