Hacking

  • themaclady

    (@themaclady)


    16 years, 2 months ago

    My posts show up in my Google alerts. I watch them carefully for this very reason.

    I know I have been hacked when I see the post with a bunch of spam keywords in it.

    I am having this problem only with blogs on a certain server by the way.

    Anyway, I have trouble-shot these before: finding these words in one of the template pages, a bogus user, and even one bogus user in the MySQL panel which I miraculously was able to delete using the My PHP Admin that is provided with my server.

    This time I cannot find where the words are located or the source, the blog isn’t slow, and when you click the link it goes to the post just fine.

    Where to begin?

    Is there something inside the backedup DB file that keeps coming up even though I updated the WP version?

    HELP.

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  • @mercime

    (@mercime)

    16 years, 2 months ago

    “but how to change it on the DB without screwing up the works???? “
    If you already changed the password to your WP admin account in dashboard, you don’t need to change it anymore in phpMyAdmin. It will automatically be recorded there.

    You would need to reset password in phpMyAdmin if you were locked out of your WP admin user account. Then this simple tutorial would help you – http://www.tamba2.org.uk/wordpress/phpmyadmin/ – That was my guide when I started learning WP way back 🙂

    Thread Starter themaclady

    (@themaclady)

    16 years, 2 months ago

    I know WP but not how to excise the leftover extra admin hidden in the DB… I wish I knew how to use MyPHPAdmin… it is not very clear.

    I believe these extra users were from and older hack, but it was still causing a problem in 2.7.1.

    I am now at 2.9.1 and will watch closely.

    Thread Starter themaclady

    (@themaclady)

    16 years, 2 months ago

    This video that supposedly shows the solution
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?gl=IT&hl=it&v=Obqa6jDV-WQ
    …is about as clear as mud. You can’t even read what he is doing!

    Plus that is not how MY PHP ADMIN even looks on my CPANEL.

    It says this is how to clean up a file that redirects using spam words… mine did not redirect but they sure looked awful when the link was searched on.

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