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ok … after I contacted support they said I needed to download the PC version of the program and re-install.

It’s showing up as version 2.2.3

Here’s the download link to the product from the site (it’s protected by licence so they shouldn’t be upset with me posting this link here)

http://wowslider.com/_com/wowslider-full-win-setup.zip

So that, along with the latest WOW Slider plugin (version 1.5.1) seem to work fine.

But it’s been an Unacceptably LONG time to get this to work, and the process of dealing with Avante customer support was likewise gave me no confidence in whether this would actually work.

Good luck one and all for future updates !

Hey everyone

Thank you for all your informative posts.

I’ve been able to restore my clients site from a host that had their server attacked yesterday.

Only the “header.php” file had been touched (I hope!!), as what seems to be the case for most other people; which suggests that this isn’t malicious intent, but just enough to show off to the world what they can do.

I’ve taken all your good advice and …
– changed hosting to a more secure server
– updated the admin and all user account passwords under wp_users
– looked for other files in all folders that have had Modified Dates the same time as the heder.php mod file date
– taken a full backup of the site using Robert Plank’s “Backup Creator” and kept that for safe future keeping
– and in a state of paranoia I updated all WP files, just to be sure
– and taking this one step further, changing passwords to all my other blogs and online access that use my email account in case they can work out the UN + PW combo for that hacked site and take my life to WordPress Hell…

And I’m taking steps to install plugins for extra secutiry on my WP site like:
– Bullet Proof Security
– WordPress Firewall ( http://www.seoegghead.com/software/downloads/wordpress-firewall.seo )

Now this has got me thinking … WHY aren’t there some of these basic plugins included in a standard installation of WordPress to ensure that sites aren’t hacked ?

Now we can’t do too much for the hosting accounts that have vulnerabilities, but if we can make the system itself more secure, wouldn’t that save a bunch of time and complaints ?

Thanks for being such a great support community 🙂