Comments on: Make Sure Your WordPress is Not Hacked http://www.dailyblogtips.com/make-sure-your-wordpress-is-not-hacked/ Thu, 09 Feb 2012 19:12:29 +0000 hourly 1 By: medyum http://www.dailyblogtips.com/make-sure-your-wordpress-is-not-hacked/#comment-937933 medyum Thu, 30 Jul 2009 10:57:36 +0000 http://www.dailyblogtips.com/?p=1225#comment-937933 Thanks for the Firefox link tips. I’ve never used that feature before. I guess you’ve removed all my excuses for not upgrading. I’ll have to check out that plugin. Thanks for the Firefox link tips. I’ve never used that feature before.
I guess you’ve removed all my excuses for not upgrading. I’ll have to check out that plugin.

]]> By: Daily Blog Tips: Best of 2008 http://www.dailyblogtips.com/make-sure-your-wordpress-is-not-hacked/#comment-724234 Daily Blog Tips: Best of 2008 Wed, 31 Dec 2008 15:24:27 +0000 http://www.dailyblogtips.com/?p=1225#comment-724234 [...] Make Sure Your WordPress is Not Hacked: Lately there there seems to be a hacking spree around old versions of WordPress. Most of the times the hacker will edit your theme files to insert spam links. One of my older and non-active blogs got that problem, and I had several friends complaining to me about it as well when chatting over IM. [...] [...] Make Sure Your WordPress is Not Hacked: Lately there there seems to be a hacking spree around old versions of WordPress. Most of the times the hacker will edit your theme files to insert spam links. One of my older and non-active blogs got that problem, and I had several friends complaining to me about it as well when chatting over IM. [...]

]]> By: Hauke http://www.dailyblogtips.com/make-sure-your-wordpress-is-not-hacked/#comment-633284 Hauke Mon, 20 Oct 2008 01:27:13 +0000 http://www.dailyblogtips.com/?p=1225#comment-633284 Another method is called "cloaking" in which your website gets re-directed to a spammy website if you are google spider bot. This is difficult to spot, given that we are not the google spider bot, but the good news is that we can pretend to be. Just install the "User Agent Switcher" for Firefox and add a definition for googlebot (see http://www.searchenginejournal.com/how-to-switch-your-user-agent-to-googlebot/7249/) How did they do it? This is what they added to my .htaccess file after many *blank lines* (so that you could easily miss this addition!!!): RewriteBase / RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} (Googlebot|Slurp|msnbot) RewriteRule ^ http://ahtung.co.in/ [R=301,L]71 N.B. make sure you scroll down to the end of your .htaccess file when checking! Another method is called “cloaking” in which your website gets re-directed to a spammy website if you are google spider bot. This is difficult to spot, given that we are not the google spider bot, but the good news is that we can pretend to be. Just install the “User Agent Switcher” for Firefox and add a definition for googlebot (see http://www.searchenginejournal.com/how-to-switch-your-user-agent-to-googlebot/7249/)

How did they do it?

This is what they added to my .htaccess file after many *blank lines* (so that you could easily miss this addition!!!):

RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} (Googlebot|Slurp|msnbot)
RewriteRule ^ http://ahtung.co.in/ [R=301,L]71

N.B. make sure you scroll down to the end of your .htaccess file when checking!

]]> By: DSTT http://www.dailyblogtips.com/make-sure-your-wordpress-is-not-hacked/#comment-537933 DSTT Thu, 17 Jul 2008 07:11:43 +0000 http://www.dailyblogtips.com/?p=1225#comment-537933 maybe something wrong with my blog! maybe something wrong with my blog!

]]> By: ECOMMERCE - Bloggers Digest - 4/25/08 http://www.dailyblogtips.com/make-sure-your-wordpress-is-not-hacked/#comment-503474 ECOMMERCE - Bloggers Digest - 4/25/08 Thu, 19 Jun 2008 20:54:47 +0000 http://www.dailyblogtips.com/?p=1225#comment-503474 [...] Attention Wordpressers! Many of us have been hacked recently (Get Elastic has suffered twice) - here are two great articles on how to avoid being hacked and how to recover, from Search Engine People and Daily Blog Tips. [...] [...] Attention WordPressers! Many of us have been hacked recently (Get Elastic has suffered twice) – here are two great articles on how to avoid being hacked and how to recover, from Search Engine People and Daily Blog Tips. [...]

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