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1. vaibhavbthl
   Member
   Posted 6 months ago #

   Hello

   My website got hacked two days ago so i contacted my hosting service provider and they told me to delete whole of my website and start again. They also emailed me a backup of my wordpress database (are my posts stores in this or are they all gone). Luckily my cpanel & ftp password was not hacked so i took a backup of my themes & plugins also. Now i have again installed wordpress and i want to know should i upload my previous themes and plugins which i downloaded after my website was hacked. Are they infected and is there any way to check whether my themes, plugins and database is infected by hackers. I don't want to get my site hacked again. Please tell me how to prevent these in future and should i upload all my data again??

   Regards
   Vaibhav Bathla

2. Gabe Young
   Member
   Posted 6 months ago #

   Your first steps for prevention should be:

   1. Change your passwords.
   2. Turn off user registrations unless you have a reason for it.

3. esmi
   Theme Diva & Forum Moderator
   Posted 6 months ago #

   http://codex.wordpress.org/FAQ_My_site_was_hacked
   http://wordpress.org/support/topic/268083#post-1065779
   http://smackdown.blogsblogsblogs.com/2008/06/24/how-to-completely-clean-your-hacked-wordpress-installation/
   http://ottopress.com/2009/hacked-wordpress-backdoors/

   http://sitecheck.sucuri.net/scanner/

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