My experience with the hacker script kiddie brats is that most of the blog stuff is safe in a SQL database and you just need a fresh install of wordpress to make it all pretty and happy again. Except for maybe the custom look. Which you can also re-upload.
That may all be gibberish. But oh, I hate the hacker script brat monsters.
Ohhhh cool! I'm going to try it, hopefully that will put everything right as rain. I did the look through much clueless tweaking, I may never be able to figure out what in the heck I did. Ah well.
Are they really just kiddie brats doing this to folks? Or are they evil spammers?
Um, well, I'm not sure what they did to your site, but I know the couple times it's happened to me, the site itself was replaced by the equivalent of tagging. 'HaCKELITEZ WAS HERE'. Sometimes with a link, sometimes without. That certainly felt like the work of a juvenile delinquent. And I know ('cause I have a sixteen year old brother) that kids dig into this stuff and can pick up scripts that they can run to do all sorts of nastiness. It's counter-intuitive for spammers, because what spammers want is to flood your comments with links so google and other search engines give more weight to their websites (websites with more links to them show up higher on search results).
I /really/ hope that in your case it was as simple and everything is safe. I know how nasty and awful I felt, how invaded and scared for my stuff.
UGH. I'm trying to do a fresh install of WP. It tells me it's already installed. Apparantly I have to clear the SQL tables before I can do a new installation... how do I do that without deleting everything? I don't know how to back up the sql stuff. Gosh this is embarrassing. Being dumb sucks!!
(Sorry no, you don't have to be my support person. I'm digging for answers anywhere I can get them. I know just enough to be dangerous)
Something like that would drive me to eat a whole lot more than a lowfat cinnamon roll so you are on a much healthier path than I....
To quote my father's infinite wisdom - "There is always a spot deeper in the ass crack of life" Meaning - whatever it is your facing someone else somewhere out there is always dealing with something worse so just keep on moving on and it will all eventually work out.
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Hope you don't have too much work to get back up to speed!
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That may all be gibberish. But oh, I hate the hacker script brat monsters.
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Are they really just kiddie brats doing this to folks? Or are they evil spammers?
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I /really/ hope that in your case it was as simple and everything is safe. I know how nasty and awful I felt, how invaded and scared for my stuff.
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(Sorry no, you don't have to be my support person. I'm digging for answers anywhere I can get them. I know just enough to be dangerous)
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Stupid kids with too much time on their hands...
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Something like that would drive me to eat a whole lot more than a lowfat cinnamon roll so you are on a much healthier path than I....
To quote my father's infinite wisdom - "There is always a spot deeper in the ass crack of life" Meaning - whatever it is your facing someone else somewhere out there is always dealing with something worse so just keep on moving on and it will all eventually work out.
Good Luck.
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