Comments on: Hacked Off

By: James

James — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 01:16:18 +0000

Vickie, Thanks. I do too. I’m already starting to see a few Google searches lead here so I think it’s going to be fine. It’s nice to know a company that uses “don’t be evil” as its motto really is making a good effort to do right by those of us who rely on their search.

By: vickie

vickie — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 14:13:34 +0000

I am so impressed with your perseverence. I doubt if I would have ever figured all of that out and probably would have given up.

I will say I appreciate google’s stewardship in filtering out frauds and spam in their search engine. I had a porno fraud site plant my blog name numerous times and up popped porno videos with automatic downloads. I was both surprised and appreciated google’s prompt action. The site was eliminated from the search engine after two reports.

Now that you’ve cleared away all the problems, I hope their restoring of good sites is as fast.

By: James

James — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 01:36:41 +0000

Carl, I had that file also. I deleted it and lost my upload capabilities. My host fixed it, though.

Mike, It’s no fun when you can’t blog because you’re dealing with your blog. I just try to remind myself that if I’m learning things it’s not for naught.

By: Mike

Mike — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 02:21:49 +0000

I’ve been through similar issues and fear that some of my sites may still be vulnerable. While I love blogging, sometimes the role of webmaster overwhelms me!

By: Carl Parry

Carl Parry — Sun, 30 Nov 2008 13:32:54 +0000

Just had the same thing. A strange remv.php file and a “wordpress” user that shows up under MySQL but not in the WordPress admin panel.
I also had problems deleting and uploading via ftp (permission denied) because my folder file permissions were set to 555 rather 755.
I’ve learnt a lot this morning…. haha