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Uncle Don:
Somebody hacked my site which is now down.  I am left with a picture of a bloody tongue with a needle thru it and a soundtrack that is noisy and disturbing.  Can somebody please help?  lewportalumni.com

Old Fossil:
Not a nice image either.

Uncle Don have you spoken to your hosts?

Uncle Don:
No I have not.  Do you think they can restore to an earlier copy?

Old Fossil:
They should be able too. I'd wait and see what the smf experts say though.

 ;)

MrPhil:
The first thing to check is if the hacker actually damaged/overwrote your PHP files, or if they simply slipped in an index.html or index.htm page. In the latter case, .html or .htm usually is picked up before .php, so simply getting rid of the offending page would solve the immediate problem.

Then you need to work with your host to see how the hacker got in. Check your permissions to make sure someone sharing the server can't write into your site. Scan your PC (used to administrate the site) for spyware and then change all your passwords -- hosting, FTP, forum admin, etc.

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