Thanks all for the replies. I did find the culprit and it was a plug-in. I took everybodys suggestions and deactivated my plug-ins and reactivated them one by one until I found the problem one (links builder plugin). I am BACK IN BUSINESS!!!!!!!
I encountered this same problem yesterday. This is what I had to do to get it fixed:
First I searched all .php files of my plugin (wp-content/plugins) and found some files starting with “<?php eval(gzinflate(base64_decode(‘1VVtT9swEP7c/gpTVSSRurEhoECB…. ?>” so I removed that from all the files and then updated the plugins, but it was still not working correctly. So this time I backedup my db and WordPress files and did the update right from the admin control panel and everything is working great.