Title: Trying to fix hack/spam?
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# Trying to fix hack/spam?

 *  [jody-shannon](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jody-shannon/)
 * (@jody-shannon)
 * [16 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/trying-to-fix-hackspam/)
 * My website: [http://www.thedrc.net](http://www.thedrc.net)
 * Couple days ago I noticed we had an extra admin. After reading on here, I messed
   with ID numbers until I found him, made him a subscriber and deleted him. All
   the categories were set back to default for some reason and in almost all the
   post I found links like this:
 * <em style=”display:none”>[Betrayed rip](http://www.wahlbistro.ch/?betrayed) <
   div style=”display:none”>[Overnight Delivery move](http://www.procovery.com/?overnight_delivery)
   </div> <u style=”display:none”>[A Life Less Ordinary film](http://www.mcnamarareport.com/?a_life_less_ordinary)
   </u>
 * Anyways, I went through and deleted all of them, redid the categories and went
   in today to discover new links and most everything screwed up again. Does anyone
   know how to fix this? We are upgraded to 2.8.6 now. Is there anywhere I can a
   step by step explanation on how to fix this? Does anyone have any suggestions?
 * Thanks for any help or suggestions!

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 *  [mrmist](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mrmist/)
 * (@mrmist)
 * [16 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/trying-to-fix-hackspam/#post-1295360)
 * The Codex page [http://codex.wordpress.org/FAQ_My_site_was_hacked](http://codex.wordpress.org/FAQ_My_site_was_hacked)
   has some useful links and information.
 *  Thread Starter [jody-shannon](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jody-shannon/)
 * (@jody-shannon)
 * [16 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/trying-to-fix-hackspam/#post-1295441)
 * Has anyone else had this issue before? Is there a specific fix I can do?
 *  Moderator [Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ipstenu/)
 * (@ipstenu)
 * 🏳️‍🌈 Advisor and Activist
 * [16 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/trying-to-fix-hackspam/#post-1295490)
 * Go to the link mrmist put up. Work through the whole page.
 * Good luck.
 *  [Rev. Voodoo](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rvoodoo/)
 * (@rvoodoo)
 * [16 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/trying-to-fix-hackspam/#post-1295491)
 * Like they are sayin, you gotta follow all the steps (including following the 
   links in that link that was givin).
 * You gotta follow all the steps thoroughly and completely…. it can be a long and
   painful process

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 * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
 * 4 replies
 * 4 participants
 * Last reply from: [Rev. Voodoo](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rvoodoo/)
 * Last activity: [16 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/trying-to-fix-hackspam/#post-1295491)
 * Status: not resolved

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