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Forum: Themes and Templates
In reply to: Removing a Phishing Link placed by hackerJust noticed something after peering into the file manager again: the original install of ProPhoto3 and the original zip folder was still there.
Scrapped it and reinstalled from original zip…. will report back to let you know if that fixed it.
Forum: Themes and Templates
In reply to: Removing a Phishing Link placed by hackerMaybe after talking to GoDaddy I will eventually find a way into the databases, but for now I have at least set up a 2-step login involving a text-message validation code to that account. Here’s the thing though:
I wiped WordPress AND all databases from my hosting account entirely last night, even from GoDaddy’s tech support end, and reinstalled it all.
The malicious link remains, so I am starting to suspect ProPhoto 3.
Here’s the other thing: after reinstalling everything, I am of course still able to find old image files that were uploaded years ago to my hosting account. Is it possible that, even though WordPress stores the HTML files in the database, perhaps the malicious code is lurking as a file that isn’t an HTML document in my file-manager? I am wondering if I should just clean out my file manager but am scared of deleting something important.
Other things that are perhaps noteworthy: when examining files in my file manager, there is a webroot folder but no public_html folder. There is, however, a wp-content folder and such where it has those photos and so on stored. Just no HTML files in sight.
Forum: Themes and Templates
In reply to: Removing a Phishing Link placed by hackerOkay, here’s a clarification of my question, and an update.
I’ve contacted GoDaddy support, but they weren’t able to be super helpful. The support tech essentially told me that the code would have to be somewhere in the webroot file, but I cannot find the actual code for the static homepage I have setup. I can, however, find things like my uploaded image files. Unfortunately the tech said she could not assist with coding questions like this.
I’m using WordPress as an application on my host GoDaddy, and I use the ProPhoto 3 plugin to build my pages – I don’t do the coding myself. Does anyone know where this application stores its HTML files?
Forum: Themes and Templates
In reply to: Removing a Phishing Link placed by hackerIf that’s the case, then I’m questioning the access point the hacker used. I mean, I was able to login to my hosting account, just not the WordPress.org account… I’m puzzled as to how something would have been done from the hosting end of things if that account at least didn’t seem to be compromised. If anyone has any thoughts on that as well, I’d be curious to know them.