Title: Malware in Database??
Last modified: July 5, 2017

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# Malware in Database??

 *  [angelwp](https://wordpress.org/support/users/angelwp/)
 * (@angelwp)
 * [8 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/malware-in-database-2/)
 * Hello, i have now like 3 months every 4 days aprox i need to clean up my websites(
   28) or my hosting detect high cpu usage and shut my server down
 * i do clean my files, change passwords, scan, etc the recommended for this situations,
   but i can´t find how to scan the DATABASE, i guess there is the problem
 * is this malicious ??
 * SELECT * FROM `site_asador`.`wp_posts` WHERE (CONVERT(`ID` USING utf8) LIKE ‘%
   eval%’ OR CONVERT(`post_author` USING utf8) LIKE ‘%eval%’ OR CONVERT(`post_date`
   USING utf8) LIKE ‘%eval%’ OR CONVERT(`post_date_gmt` USING utf8) LIKE ‘%eval%’
   OR CONVERT(`post_content` USING utf8) LIKE ‘%eval%’ OR CONVERT(`post_title` USING
   utf8) LIKE ‘%eval%’ OR CONVERT(`post_excerpt` USING utf8) LIKE ‘%eval%’ OR CONVERT(`
   post_status` USING utf8) LIKE ‘%eval%’ OR CONVERT(`comment_status` USING utf8)
   LIKE ‘%eval%’ OR CONVERT(`ping_status` USING utf8) LIKE ‘%eval%’ OR CONVERT(`
   post_password` USING utf8) LIKE ‘%eval%’ OR CONVERT(`post_name` USING utf8) LIKE‘%
   eval%’ OR CONVERT(`to_ping` USING utf8) LIKE ‘%eval%’ OR CONVERT(`pinged` USING
   utf8) LIKE ‘%eval%’ OR CONVERT(`post_modified` USING utf8) LIKE ‘%eval%’ OR CONVERT(`
   post_modified_gmt` USING utf8) LIKE ‘%eval%’ OR CONVERT(`post_content_filtered`
   USING utf8) LIKE ‘%eval%’ OR CONVERT(`post_parent` USING utf8) LIKE ‘%eval%’ 
   OR CONVERT(`guid` USIN[…]

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 *  [mickmel](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mickmel/)
 * (@mickmel)
 * [8 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/malware-in-database-2/#post-9301489)
 * “eval” is often used in malware, but isn’t necessarily.
 * Most WordPress security plugins will scan the database and should help you to
   get it cleaned out.

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 * [database](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/database/)

 * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
 * 1 reply
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 * Last reply from: [mickmel](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mickmel/)
 * Last activity: [8 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/malware-in-database-2/#post-9301489)
 * Status: not resolved

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