• 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
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