michael walker
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Thank you. The redirection rule seems like a good idea. I would probably not have thought of that – so thanks again.
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Strange text showing up on Google searchYou’re right – it’s gone! I have no idea how or why that happened, but I’m very pleased and relieved. Thank you so much for your help and assistance with this, it is highly appreciated. I don’t use the display widgets plug-in, but thanks for the heads-up. Looks like maybe I won’t need the site migration tools after all !
Thanks for your prompt and helpful reply. It will be difficult to change the folder name as so many links, both internal and external, depend upon it. I hope it’s possible to fix this in a future release as your plug-in seems very effective and highly thought of. I use it with both success and confidence on several other sites I maintain.
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Strange text showing up on Google searchThanks. ClamWin didn’t turn anything up I’m afraid, neither did Virus Total. I think I’m getting to the point where I might need to consider a re-install, although I don’t like letting these people beat me. Plus, of course, if I don’t find out when/how/where they got in, they can easily do it again. Any good site migration tools about? 🙂
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Strange text showing up on Google searchThanks (again) for your advice.
It’s most likely somewhere in the PHP files.
That was my original thought, too. However, I’ve completely deleted both the wp-includes and wp-content folders and replaced them with new, freshly downloaded alternatives. I’ve also renamed the wp-content folder (and then created a new one, empty except for my theme) and the problem persists. The only way I’ve been able to get rid of it so far has been to modify my config file so that it points to a different set of database tables (i.e standard WP tables, freshly-installed, but with with a different prefix).
May I ask you to clarify something, please? I’ve installed ClamWin as suggested and I’ve also obtained a signature set from SecuriteInfo – a file with the suffix ‘.hdb’. The instructions tell me to ‘install’ it to the location Program Data/.Clamwin/db. Does this mean just copy/paste it into that folder, or is there something else I should do? The site doesn’t seem very clear on this point.
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Strange text showing up on Google searchThank you Steve. Yes, as previously stated, I have run both WordFence and Sucuri scans with no success.
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Strange text showing up on Google searchI don’t find the spam text as such, so now I am wondering if might be encoded somehow. I’ve tried to check through for suspicious looking blob or Base64 references, but no luck so far. Are there any tools you know of that might help me do this?
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Strange text showing up on Google searchThanks for your continued help. My host has now completed a scan and cannot find anything. This site does share resources with two others – both WP based -but neither appear infected. If I install a bunch of clean default WP tables with a different prefix, and then point my old WP install to them by altering the wp-config file, the problem goes away. That’s why I suspected the source of the problem might be code within the existing DB.
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Strange text showing up on Google searchThanks very much for taking an interest. I have now tried all the steps you suggest, but unhappily the problem still remains. As I am now running a bit short of ideas, any further suggestions would be much appreciated.
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Strange text showing up on Google searchThank you Steve. I’m afraid all that was done many months ago, but they still got in somehow. My investigations indicate that this is an sql injection into the WP database. Do you know of any tools that could help me scan that for possible malicious code? I’ve searched for the obvious – base64, BLOB, suspicious looking .js files etc, but have turned up nothing. It’s a rather large site – even a text dump of the db is 191 MBs – so manually examining each line of code is pretty near out of the question. Thanks for any suggestions.
Forum: Plugins
In reply to: [Allow Multiple Accounts] Plug-In not working with WP 4.7.4Not that I’m aware of. It is starting to look as if this plug-in is no longer actively supported.
Thanks for the prompt reply – that did fix it.
Forum: Plugins
In reply to: [Allow Multiple Accounts] Plug-In not working with WP 4.7.4Well…am now on WP 4.8 but the issue persists. Anyone know if this plug-in is still maintained? Or maybe there’s an alternative?
Forum: Plugins
In reply to: [Allow Multiple Accounts] Plug-In not working with WP 4.7.4Thanks, Kimsf. I don’t have Woo Commerce installed, but the uplift to 4.7.5. hasn’t cured things for me. 🙁 Can you elaborate on what is edited in the file you mention? Maybe it will give us a clue as to what is going wrong or needs adjusting here.
Thanks for the prompt response. Unfortunately this has not helped. I have checked for errors using both Chrome and Firefox (plus Opera) and none shown. I have also disabled all plug-ins without success. My next plan will be to try the plug-in on another site using a different theme.