My apologies, I found out last week that numerous sites hosted on Godaddy using wordpress were hacked and yes, unfortunately ours was one of them. I *really* wanted to curl up into a ball and suck my thumb but alas I had to hit the forums and rid of this damn thing. I thought I had removed it successfully the first time, but apparently there is a cookie that will install the bad javacript again after a few days on all my wordpress files. I have restored to an earlier version and removed all the bad scripts. What the hack did was completely take over my blog and redirect people to a spam anti-virus website.
I will continue to monitor *daily* and if it happens again Smokinhotbooks will move to another blogging platform.
If you’ve been affected click here on how to remove the hack
You can also use this quick script to temporary remove the javascript via FTP from Sucuri Security
I do have some other helpful links I used if this has happened to you.
Sincerely
Smokinhotbooks
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*hugs* That really sucks. I hate these hacker ppl. They should die and I’m not going to be pc about it. Nope.
I don’t think I was affected. How would I know?
That sucks – I’m impressed you were able to fix it!
On a lighter note, as I glanced at the quick script temporary remove link, out of the corner of my eye I read it as “Succubi Security”, LOL!
Yikes. I’m scared cause I have WP on GoDaddy too.
Shakes fist at low life hacker!!! Leave SHB alone, hear me? Now hides so lowlife hacker does not seek me out and hack something I love.
Whew! I’m glad you’re back – I’ll send out anti-hacker vibes on your behalf!
Woot! So glad you’re all fixed up KC although I didn’t realize you were infected to start with…but yay for you! Especially on figuring out how to fix the problem.
Hugs, VFG
@Queen B It was only for self hosted blogs using Godaddy, it was a php hack and a large percentage of peeps were affected *sobs* as was I.
@Patti LMAO you have Succubi on the brain
@ Jess (The Cozy Reader) You might want to change all your pws including Godaddy login make sure your security is tightened. Once your site get’s hacked by this HUGE malware attack it is pretty messy to clean up. Hopefully I got rid of it…if not I will curl into a ball and cry like a baby.
@Fiction Vixen *pinky wave* thanks for ‘helping’ me through with my sobbing via email
@Chris I keep chanting from Galaxy Quest Never Give Up Never Surrender whilst trying to un-hack my site.
@VFG I was able to remove the redirect in the mornings, or if you are using Mac you didn’t see the hacked site. It’s like a bad stalker, it keeps coming back *grrr*
Ugh..that is awful!!! So glad you worked it out Ms. Smokin!!
@Mandi *crosses fingers* hopefully I did otherwise…
Wish I could say that I helped in the matter but all I did was emotionally eat whilst KC ‘hacked the planet’ on our behalf. SHB unite! :puts on cape and pumps fist in air:
Glad you’re malware free again..I was afraid I wouldn’t be able to get my favorite dose of weekly smuttiness
@K-Khan while you were ‘emotionally eating’ I was ‘emotionally drinking”
@Heather we’ll, we can’t have that! You need your daily smut and that’s what we are here for
Yay! The white hats win!
Glad you got everything up and running!
Glad you are all better now!
What a huge bummer! You’d think these people would have better things to do than create viruses. Stupid people.
Glad you got it fixed.
OMG, horror, abso-freakin’-lutely nightmare worthy experience. I always freak out when blogger acts up and can only imagine the stress levels on your part being hacked!! What would we do without Smokinhotbooks? Nothing I tell ya! I needs my daily dose of Smokin’ talk!