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Why Do I have a "Pastebin" error in my header (10 posts)

  1. odellcash
    Member
    Posted 10 months ago #

    My site has been up for probably a year. Today when I went to the site

    http://thebestminiproject.com

    I have a weird error message in my header that says "Pastebin.com is under heavy load right now" and that is should be back online soon.

    I don't even know what pastebin is, or why its in my header.
    Furthermore, I cant log into my admin area.

    Can anyone tell me what this is or why it's appearing now?

  2. Krishna
    Volunteer Moderator
    Posted 10 months ago #

    It is probably because something funny you did. If you did not do so, it can be by rogue robots. Currently your site is inaccessible to most checking tools. I get the following error (from validator.w3.org):
    500 Can't connect to thebestminiproject.com:80 (Bad hostname 'thebestminiproject.com')

    Contact your hosting company to find out what is happening.

  3. Christine
    WP Yogi & Forum Moderator
    Posted 10 months ago #

    I can't see your site either. I would contact your hosting provider and see what's up. Perhaps the hosting or domain name is up for renewal?

  4. odellcash
    Member
    Posted 10 months ago #

    crap...sorry the site is

    http://thebestminiprojector.com

  5. odellcash
    Member
    Posted 10 months ago #

    However, an hour ago the site would load beneath the pastebin message, now only the error message appears

  6. odellcash
    Member
    Posted 10 months ago #

    Here is a link to a picture of the site as it loaded before

    http://www.osedg.com/wp-content/uploads/thebestminiprojector.png

  7. MickeyRoush
    Member
    Posted 10 months ago #

    It's possible that you may have been hacked. Hard to really tell. I do know that there is a bot going around attempting XSS attacks using pastie.org. So I assume it's possible to use pastebin as well.

    I'm not positive about that, but it does sound possible.

  8. Krishna
    Volunteer Moderator
    Posted 10 months ago #

    crap...sorry the site is

    http://thebestminiprojector.com

    Are you sure the above quoted is your site? If so HERE is the report that verifies your site clean. But sadly, I find it almost empty. Please check it.

    Also, login to your cPanel/ File Manager and check if your files/content are still there.

  9. odellcash
    Member
    Posted 10 months ago #

    If you see my post above of a picture taken when I first posted, you see content is there. Going to other pagers of the site, also show content, but with the pastebin stuff in the header.

    http://www.thebestminiprojector.com/reasons-to-buy-a-mini-projector

    [ several links to different pages showing the same issue removed - we get the idea ]

    However, I was hoping this was some kind of issue affecting many others. It sounds like some kind of weird isolated incident. Unfortunately, since I cant log into my admin, I will have to use a back up of the site.

  10. Christine
    WP Yogi & Forum Moderator
    Posted 10 months ago #

    I would look at the header.php and see what's in the file at the very top. When I look at the source code of your site, I can see 2 doctypes. You should only have one.

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