I’m using a reseller CPANEL/WHM package from Blurstorm and the same thing happened to me. Yesterday I went to log in to my WordPress blog and all I got was a blank page. I checked source and found a bunch of ad links in there essentially breaking the page. Checking the files the index.php in admin folder had been replaced the day before.
My blog is running 2.7 beta 3 so I downloaded the package and re-uploaded the original index which fixed it.
Today my blog is white and the same crap appears in the front page source. This is what I see.
<!– ~ –><u style=display:none>
[usual drug-related spam links removed]
Checking the index file it also shows as being replaced 11/24/08 which makes no sense since I checked the site yesterday. The index.php file is 6kb in size too instead of 397 bytes. After replacing the index.php my site is completely messed up! I don’t understand what is going on but it’s obvious someone is attacking our web sites.
my permission for the wp-blog-header.php r xr xr x.
what does that mean? how do i change that so i can clean up that file?
Changing File Permissions via a FTP client like Filezilla works, but not sure that you will be allowed to do that, but try, and if you can’t may need your host.
I have put in a support ticket with my host to see about changing permissions on files I want to delete. Will keep you updated.
@michael
actually i found out how to do it via my ftp client. cleaned up header. no redirecting anymore. (fingers crossed.)
as an aside. what is the most secure permissions setting?
@bob Smith
I tried to do that. I tried pasting clean text into it, it wouldn’t update. Even though the permissions on the file SAY read/write access for owner.
@ktomasch
huh. was thankfully about to change mine and upload a clean file.
maybe someone else has an answer.
i suspect everyone was was hit with the google redirect hack but the hackers bungled something up and made everyone’s blogs white out or give error messages. just a hunch.
