treetopcoach
Member
Posted 1 year ago #
I've been away from my blog for 2 months. When I checked in today I found about 40 pages of posts in either another language or gibberish that I (obviously) didn't write in the last 2.5 months. I started deleting them and now have encountered an "error with trash" message, meaning I can't delete the rest of the posts.
My question is twofold:
1) How do I (in Mac parlance) "empty the trash"? and
2) How the hell did these posts get here anyway? These are POSTS, not comments. I guess I need to change my password.
thanks in advance for your help.
Catherine
To empty the Trash, go to Admin->Posts->All Posts and click on 'Trash' in the second row.
This should bring up a page of posts that are in the Trash. Click 'Empty Trash' at the end of the third row.
Your site may have been hacked. Most of the time, hackers put a 'back door' into your site, so you will need to find and eliminate that before your site is clean.
Here is a Codex FAQ that should help;
http://codex.wordpress.org/FAQ_My_site_was_hacked
treetopcoach
Member
Posted 1 year ago #
Thank you very much for your reply vtxyzzy. I'm now on the road to trying to figure out everything I need to do. Dang, it's a drag that hackers are now getting Macs, too.
C.
Here is an on-line security service that offers a free scan of your site: http://sitecheck.sucuri.net/scanner/
The only problem is that it reports 'possible threats', and there are usually a lot of legitimate pieces of code that 'might' be threats. This means that you have to sort through a lot of messages to find any real threats.
