Title: What is overload.php?
Last modified: August 21, 2016

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# What is overload.php?

 *  [bob.passaro](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bobpassaro/)
 * (@bobpassaro)
 * [12 years, 12 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/what-is-overloadphp/)
 * Cleaning up after a site was hacked. My host, (mt), disabled a bunch of suspect
   files, which was nice, because that made it easy to find stuff in my uploads 
   folder and elsewhere that wasn’t supposed to be there.
 * But I see this file called `overload.php` just hanging out loose in my `wp-content`
   folder. Googled, but I can’t find anything about it.
 * All I recognize is a `preg_replace` function at the beginning — the rest is all
   encrypted or something.
 * Basically I just want to know if it’s safe to delete.

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 *  [Pioneer Web Design](https://wordpress.org/support/users/swansonphotos/)
 * (@swansonphotos)
 * [12 years, 12 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/what-is-overloadphp/#post-3855619)
 * I would say this file contain base eval 64 code and needs to be removed – tell
   host about it right away (let them find it) as it may the host env that is letting
   this file back in or be created. Document this.
 *  Thread Starter [bob.passaro](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bobpassaro/)
 * (@bobpassaro)
 * [12 years, 12 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/what-is-overloadphp/#post-3855633)
 * Thanks. Will do.
 * Also found old wp-register.php and wp-pass.php files that aren’t part of WP anymore
   are they? Core was up to date, but I suspect a plugin was the problem. Lots of
   other weird stuff — same index.php file all over the place, mixed in with uploads,
   etc.
 * Mess. But getting there, I hope.

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 * Last activity: [12 years, 12 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/what-is-overloadphp/#post-3855633)
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