Hi missleilani,
I tried contacting my host again and this time, they’re more helpful. I believe they tried your approach where they renamed a .htaccess file but no success. They even disabled all plugins and themes but to no avail.
We are currently resorting to do a restore from a recent backup, from before the site was contaminated. Hopefully it works.
Thank you for your input! I do believe my site was hacked somehow.
Sincerely,
Ashley