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How can I save a hacked webiste? Is it really hacked?

Question: How can I save a hacked webiste? Is it really hacked?
I created the site http://goldfishcare.byethost11.com for my SEO practice. I used a free hosting and wordpress to create it. Now, this afternoon I asked my friend to visit the site so she could click the facebook like button. But she said she can’t visit the site because it redirects to http://xlsearch.org/results.php?qu=different%20types%20of%20lawyers. I checked it and I can not visit the site too even the admin of wp. So, I searched in google using the keyword goldfishcare.byethost11.com. There is a twitter search result. The twitter is owned by mokasrodros and he said “I have a blog goldfishcare.byethost11.com how can I install google analytics?”. Here is the link http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:rTApD8w71TkJ:twitter.com/mokasrodros+&cd=5&hl=en&ct=clnk.

I wanted to change the passwords but I can’t since it is a free hosting. I still have ftp access and I already checked the index.php file and it’s still the same.

What do I need to do or check next? Any help is greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance.

Answer:

Answer by j k
First of all, you should be contacting bytehost. While I understand it’s free, and they most likely won’t do a heck of alot, they might be interested in the fact that you got hacked – they might at least want to determine whether it was just you who got hacked or is it a server wide thing. And, at the very least, they should change your password for you. If they refuse, say bye bye.

It depends on the type of hack it is. I didn’t go look at any links. But you will need to upgrade your wordpress install, so download the current install. How did you install the current WordPress you have? If it was thru fantastico – don’t use it. Upgrade manually by getting the software from wordpress.org

If you look at any files, look at them in notepad. Very important. You also need to download your database – you download it as an sql file which can be opened in notepad. You need to look at this file and see if they got the database, and clean up the database before using it again. Or you could just start over

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