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  • Thread Starter red5.ws

    (@red5ws)

    I do not use google analytics on this particular site. What I found unusual was I really didn’t have any common plugins among the all of the sites that went down. I am starting to think I was hit by malware or something like it.

    I have a shared hosting plan with 1and1.com, how about yourself?

    Thread Starter red5.ws

    (@red5ws)

    I had a copy of wordpress on my local computer. I simply used FTP to overwrite everything (except the wp-config.php file) and I left the themes and plugins in place. [Basically don’t delete anything but just transfer a new copy of wordpress on top of the existing one]

    Once I did that, I was able to sign in to the back end and update to 3.6.1 and any plugins that needed updating I did that as well. Seems to be working fine now, but I am concerned as to how this happened and how to prevent it from happening again.

    Let me know if you discover anything.

    Thanks everyone

    Thread Starter red5.ws

    (@red5ws)

    I had my hosting provider restore a backup from a few days ago and it repaired one of the sites. What I don’t understand is what could have changed seemingly overnight that would knock off all my sites. Could a plugin tried to have update itself? I guess I can have my hosting provider restore all the sites from a few days ago, but do not know hot to prevent this from happening again.

    Hello wt85,

    Thank you so much for taking the time to come back and post the resolution you found. This was EXACTLY the fix I was looking for in my theme and it worked like a charm.

    Kind regards,
    Richard

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