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1. plarsen111
   Member
   Posted 3 months ago #

   A student approached me the other day and told me I have a virus on my classroom website hmstechnology.com. He said his mom uses Avast Antivirus at home.

   I went home, visited my website, and Norton also says there is a virus on my website.

   I was hoping anyone/everyone could help me with two things:

   1. Is there really a virus on my website?

   and

   2. If there is, how can I get rid of it without deleting my whole website and starting over?

   Thank you,

   Phil Larsen
   (Teacher...who has viruses on his classroom website)

2. ragzor
   Member
   Posted 3 months ago #

   yep.. there is a malware there

   try http://25yearsofprogramming.com/blog/20071223.htm if its not a very big website try looking at each file manually to find the unwanted script

   good luck

3. plarsen111
   Member
   Posted 3 months ago #

   Wow, that appears to be a lot of work. I think my best bet is to scrap my site and start over with a new wordpress installation.

   Another question:

   How can I stop this from happening in the future?

4. ragzor
   Member
   Posted 3 months ago #

   stronger FTP password
   regularly scan your pc
   and file monitor is a MUST it alerts u if there is a change in ur installation that u haven't made and also tells u which file is changed so if there is a malicious file added to the directory u can delete it right away

   http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wordpress-file-monitor/

5. hopefullyhomemade
   Member
   Posted 3 months ago #

   sucuri.net scans site for malware. I was told by someone that it will tell you which file(s) are corrupt. It might be worth a try before scrapping your whole site

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