The virus actions upon WordPress platform by inserting a .PHP file in
the root of the installation directory and then it connects to the
database. On a successful connection various blog posts are modified
with long lists of spam links masked with CSS. (the visitors cannot see them, but the search engine robots index those links). As a
consequence, you will have to manually check all of your posts and
remove the link after the .PHP file removal. The most simple solution
to check the affected posts is to create an xml file of RSS feeds from
all of your posts and view them in an RSS reader. The rest of the
article is available here.
A New WordPress Virus (2 posts)
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bochiman
Posted 3 years ago # -
there is nothing new in that post, and nothing that hasnt already been covered on these very forums.
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