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Thank goodness it’s not just me who is experiencing this issue with the iframe hack.

Yesterday my blog was fine, today my homepage had a PHP parse error. I investigated and found the same thing, iframe code added to the bottom of heaps of pages.

I thought I got rid of all the affected pages but every change I made threw up a new error.

POSSIBLE FIRST?: Not sure if anyone else has experienced this (i’ll be honest and admit I have not read every post above this!), but it could be a possible first or new approach for this hack.

Not only did I get the iframe code inserted on the pages (mostly index.php but also heaps of others, even in the GD Star Rating plugin I use) but it also truncated lots of legit code on the page (possibly due to where it was inserted?).

Anyway, I got sick of chasing down the code as it seems it’s been inserted everywhere. I took extreme action and deleted my WP installation and SQL database (after backing up what I needed; blog entries, jpg images etc) and am presently reinstalling and configuring my blog all over again.

Thankfully I am blessed with the fact my blog is relatively new. I can quickly repost and have the tweaked php code (where applicable) I made for customising the theme I use (Modicus remix) so hopefully I should be up and running again soon.

Further I have now changed all usernames and passwords using an online password generator so now all my usernames and logins etc are insanely long and complex. Feck it, it’s worth it so I hopefully do not have to go through this again. I feel for you all!

FYI: I also use Filezilla (latest version) but do not use Adobe Reader, rather Foxit instead (much better I think).

FYI2: I got a virus on my system the day before I discovered this problem. It was that bad I had to format my computer and reinstall WindowsXP. I am not sure if the virus I picked up could have contributed to the hack(?) as my blog was fine last night when I checked my Wassup stats.