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Has my blog been hacked? (9 posts)

  1. richardpeters
    Member
    Posted 2 years ago #

    Hi all, yesterday I noticed my Admin CP suddenly stopped displaying correctly and is coming up as a long basic list down the page rather than the nice layout that you usually get. I haven't done any updates to the main files of the wp software itself for a while, just a couple of blog entries last week - and everything was working fine until yesterday.

    Then today I get an email from some guy letting me know his browser was throwing up a virus warnining when he was trying to view my blog - so I guess something bad is going on...?!

    The blog is here if it can help anyone give me an idea as to what is going on and what needs to be done to get it all back to normal...slightly concerned that it could be major work to fix as I have no experience of this type of thing. I've done some searching but because I don't know exactly what the problem is I don't know what to search for with regards to fixing it :(

    Advice appreciated.

  2. richardpeters
    Member
    Posted 2 years ago #

    This page is the one that a viewer emailed me about.

  3. Samuel B
    moderator
    Posted 2 years ago #

  4. flicksandbits
    Member
    Posted 2 years ago #

    having same issue, ima try them out^

  5. richardpeters
    Member
    Posted 2 years ago #

    Joy :(

    So how do I find which file this code is in to delete it, or do I have to follow the link above and basically re-install from scratch?!

    Bit nervous about doing a re-install in case I screw it up as it took ages to get it to where it is now...!!

  6. Samuel B
    moderator
    Posted 2 years ago #

    sorry - no easy out on this

  7. richardpeters
    Member
    Posted 2 years ago #

    Damn. So, what is my best option for removal here? I know there are several links above but which is the best to follow, guess I need some sort of step by step guide to how to get this thing out as I really don't have much of a clue :(

    And thanks for the help :)

  8. Samuel B
    moderator
    Posted 2 years ago #

    the 1st link is great and the links in the faq really help
    the 2nd link is informative as it tells you how this can happen

  9. richardpeters
    Member
    Posted 2 years ago #

    Thank you, I'll have a look around. Might take this opportunity to upgrade to 2.9 as well...

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