Title: Serious problem. Help?
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# Serious problem. Help?

 *  Resolved [websurf90](https://wordpress.org/support/users/websurf90/)
 * (@websurf90)
 * [15 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/serious-problem-help/)
 * Hello, I recently checked my WordPress site and it gave me this: `Warning: require(/
   homepages/3/d321317101/htdocs/wp-includes/comment.php) [function.require]: failed
   to open stream: Permission denied in /homepages/3/d321317101/htdocs/wp-settings.
   php on line 116
 * Fatal error: require() [function.require]: Failed opening required ‘/homepages/
   3/d321317101/htdocs/wp-includes/comment.php’ (include_path=’.:/usr/lib/php5′)
   in /homepages/3/d321317101/htdocs/wp-settings.php on line 116`
 * What the heck happend here? [http://nicks-blog.net/](http://nicks-blog.net/)
   
   I did recently look in my webspace and there were two hacks 9.txt and ah.txt.
   One said hacked by hacktohack. The other said some crap about “This is only educational.”
   I deleted these promptly. Did these have something to do with the current state
   of my blog?

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 *  [esmi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/esmi/)
 * (@esmi)
 * [15 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/serious-problem-help/#post-1566530)
 * Almost certainly. Try not to panic and start reading through the following links:
 * [http://codex.wordpress.org/FAQ_My_site_was_hacked](http://codex.wordpress.org/FAQ_My_site_was_hacked)
   
   [http://wordpress.org/support/topic/268083#post-1065779](http://wordpress.org/support/topic/268083#post-1065779)
   [http://smackdown.blogsblogsblogs.com/2008/06/24/how-to-completely-clean-your-hacked-wordpress-installation/](http://smackdown.blogsblogsblogs.com/2008/06/24/how-to-completely-clean-your-hacked-wordpress-installation/)
   [http://ottodestruct.com/blog/2009/hacked-wordpress-backdoors/](http://ottodestruct.com/blog/2009/hacked-wordpress-backdoors/)
 *  Thread Starter [websurf90](https://wordpress.org/support/users/websurf90/)
 * (@websurf90)
 * [15 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/serious-problem-help/#post-1566593)
 * Before I upgraded to WP 3.0, I backed up my 2.9.2 installation. Now how would
   I go about cleaning out my MySQL database or at least checking it for exploits?
 *  Moderator [James Huff](https://wordpress.org/support/users/macmanx/)
 * (@macmanx)
 * [15 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/serious-problem-help/#post-1566594)
 * Did you read through any of the guides that esmi linked to?
 *  Thread Starter [websurf90](https://wordpress.org/support/users/websurf90/)
 * (@websurf90)
 * [15 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/serious-problem-help/#post-1566595)
 * Yes.
 *  [thisisedie](https://wordpress.org/support/users/thisisedie/)
 * (@thisisedie)
 * [15 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/serious-problem-help/#post-1566600)
 * >  Did you read through any of the guides that esmi linked to?
 * > Yes
 * You couldn’t have because they answer your question.

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