Ah, OK, thanks, I'm not fully up on the terminology, I know much of the site is bespoke, didn't really know about plugins, but thanks for clarifying that, I shall make sure my brother is aware
Thanks for that, it was something we checked already, no harm in checking again I guess. :thumbsup:
Thanks Eggmundo :D
We've taken the site down for now while we carry on working on this. Thanks for the comments, suggestions and observations, really appreciated.
I think, or hope, that we have switched that off. We think the original hack may have come from a file masquerading as an image file that had been posted to the site, but was in fact a malicious file that may have started the whole thing off.
Improdia is my brothers business, he wrote the site. it is pretty much bespoke, on the Apache platform(?) The discovery that "he" was logged in is now being investigated as this has come as a surprise. He is also reading this thread, so really, thanks so much for the suggestions. He built the...
Thanks for the suggestions, we are aware that the backdoor must have been there a while. But when we found what we thought was it, and removed it, another one appeared.
Thanks for that, you just uncovered something else we didn’t know about the login.
This is becoming a bit of a nightmare but I’ll make sure all the thongs you’ve mentioned are addressed.
We were hit on the weekend, we’ve know there is a backdoor somewhere on the site, we thought we’d got rid of it but obviously not. We’ve completely deleted all the malicious code a number of times, and within half an hour or less it comes back.
Originally it was leaving google ads all over our...
Does anyone know of a person or firm I can contact to help me removing a hack on a website. We've had quite a big problem and despite all our efforts we are struggling to get rid of the malicious code that keeps causing the problem, even after we think we've got rid of it. If you know someone...