Title: Query about date infected
Last modified: October 27, 2019

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# Query about date infected

 *  Resolved [jen000](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jen000/)
 * (@jen000)
 * [6 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/query-about-date-infected/)
 * Hello. I’ve had a major problem with 6 of my websites (which were hosted on one
   account) being hacked. Firstly I want to say this plugin is brilliant as its 
   the only one which identified and cleared the code injections. So thank you! 
   I have donated by the way.
 * I am trying to work out when the initial hack took place and I have viewed the
   quarantined files. For two of my sites the oldest quarantined files are showing
   as date infected back in Feb 2016. But neither site was built in 2016. Both were
   built in 2018. Is there any way to figure out an accurate date of the first injection?
   I keep regular backups and I’m trying to avoid using an infected back up when
   I move the sites to a new host.

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 *  Plugin Author [Eli](https://wordpress.org/support/users/scheeeli/)
 * (@scheeeli)
 * [6 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/query-about-date-infected/#post-12074629)
 * It is possible for the scripts to edit the modified date stamped on the files
   that get infected to further obscure the actual infection date.
 * There is also a date changed and date created which are harder to corrupt but
   may not help you if the files were there before or have been changed after the
   infection (as would be the case if they have already been cleaned).
 * You could try installing a backup and then checking the stats on those files 
   that you know were infected, but it also may not be needed to restore a backup
   if you have already completely removed the infection.

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