WordPress Hacked

I’d like to apologise to everyone who may have visited my site and (I think) been infected with a virus, or redirected to another page… I’m not sure exactly what was happening since I didn’t want to test it. But anyway, I was hacked or something, which was placing an iframe at the top of every page on my site.

Luckily I use google syndication which was editing my served pages to visitors and removing the harmful infection, but for now my site is listed as potentially dangerous.

The solution to this was not just to remove the infection, but to upgrade WordPress completely to 2.5. I bet this still has vulnerabilities but I can’t really do much about that right now.

Apologies again, but I assure everyone I fixed it!

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Sleuth

Hello, I'm Dave! I'm a software developer, and I've lived in Nottingham since October 2005, and I tend to write my random thoughts down here in the hope that they might help or entertain someone in the future. If you have a comment about any of the posts you see on this site, please submit it, as you might also be helping someone!

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