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Fixing an Infected PHP/WordPress Web Server

17 Apr

Fixing an infected WordPress server. Darn if the ISP serving up our PHP and WordPress content wasn’t attacked with an exploit. So I did a lot of learning as I cleaned up my web server, this past weekend. The goal of this exploit was to infect visitors of the web site with viruses by coercing visitors’ browsers to download malware from predefined third-party sites, seeded with the malware. That means modifying web site code to send visitors to those malicious sites.

After noticing some strange behavior that tripped my anti-virus software on my Windows machine, Read the rest of this entry »