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1. cjjervis
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   My site has been hacked so when I go to the dashboard I get a very unpleasant message. Please can anyone help me remove this and suggest how I can improve security?

   Many thanks

2. Dickie
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   I hope you have an up to date database backup, and your theme files.

   Re-upload the latest wordpress files (currently 2.0.7), delete the database and create a fresh one with a "strong" password (make sure it's different from your old one), re-install wordpress, then restore the database from the last good backup.
   Then change your wordpress login passwords...

   Just to be sure I would also suggest that you change your hosting login password as well.

   It seems a pain, but unfortunately these things happen... there are some real ba****ds out there

   As far as making sure it doesn't happen again, make sure you keep wordpress up to date, and that all your passwords are "strong" ones (numbers, upper/lower case letters and ossibly special characters eg %$£")

3. PozHonks
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   A good "phonetic" (easy to remember) password generator is here:
   http://tools.arantius.com/password

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