jeffrev01

pundito, thanks for the link to Daniel Ansari’s script. It was just the ticket for getting rid of this nasty malware hack on my blog. If anyone else is having problems with the holasionweb.com code, give this a try and see if it doesn’t work for you too.

First of all, this is not a GoDaddy issue. I have several friends with blogs hosted on other servers that are suffering the same fate. GoDaddy does have a great feature in the Account Management called the File Manager, which allows files to be restored from a previous calendar date. You can call GoDaddy support and they should be able to walk you through the process of using the File Manager.

As for the hacks themselves, I see this more as a WordPress issue than a server side issue. All of the files hacked on my site are the core WordPress PHP files. Perhaps the next update of WordPress will look at ways of locking the file permissions down to keep the hacks from changing them and injecting all this nasty code. I do know one thing, this can certainly suck the life out of the average blog owner.

I checked out the Validator but the funny thing is, everything works and looks great in FireFox and Safari and I didn’t change any content or plug-ins after moving to 2.5.1 and it loaded just fine in IE7 before the update. I’m pretty sure the 2.5.1 changed something that brought on this problem and obviously the rollback to 2.5 didn’t fix it. I readily admit I don’t know anything about code, which is why I’m a photographer.

Still no luck, it begins to load and then an error message pops up saying that IE can’t open the site and then aborts. It does manage to load the header and top menus before crashing.