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1. BUxykay
   Member
   Posted 6 months ago #

   It all started a few months ago when I noticed that my major site on wordpress is no longer generating revenues as before. I then contacted the Affiliate manager but he said everything looks fine. Unique hits tripled but no sales.

   Later I was contacted by my hosting service that their server has been overloaded with a script from my site and the mysql server too was almost bursting and I should do something or my account will be deleted.

   I re-installed the wordpress but made sure I deleted all the folders except the images.

   It all went well until I started to see comments even though I disabled it. I enabled the "You must be logged in to comment" Yet somebody seems to pass through.

   These guys are driving me crazy.

   Does anybody know how I can solve this situation?

   How can I find out if my database has been hacked, or where if any a script has been secretly installed.

   My blog has more than 1000 posts.

   I NEED HELP!

   Thanks.

2. songdogtech
   Member
   Posted 6 months ago #

   See FAQ: My site was hacked « WordPress Codex and How to completely clean your hacked wordpress installation and How to find a backdoor in a hacked WordPress and Hardening WordPress « WordPress Codex. Change all passswords. Scan your own PC. Some plugins might be useful: Search for "security" « WordPress Plugins

3. BUxykay
   Member
   Posted 6 months ago #

   Thanks Songdogtech, I tried everything I could but to no avail. What I did was that I migrated to another hosting service but looks as if the database as well as some vital files were corrupted.

   Therefore I asked for the services of the technical team of the new hosting and they did a fantastic job. They succeeded to remove all the malwares installed, redirect scripts which are difficult to locate and injected codes to the plugins.

   Now I am happy because my sites are now functioning as before. I think I will think twice in future before I take up any offer of unlimited hosting even if it is from a friend. I wrote a post about this at The Dangers Of Free Web Hosting with the intention that maybe it might help others not to make the same mistakes I made by getting a free hosting through a friend.

   Thank you all for your help. I really appreciate it.

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