Comments on: Been Hacked? Worried About It? Some Helpful Hints

By: Peter

Peter — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 03:04:59 +0000

Yes, I can confirm that my WP 2.5 install still has the plugin file editor

By: No Runny Eggs » Blog Archive » The Morning (er, afternoon) Scramble - 4/16/2008

Wed, 16 Apr 2008 18:13:38 +0000

[...] the motto is, “It’s not about being right, it’s about being drinking.” – William Teach has a few tips for those bloggers either hacked or worried about getting hacked. Go, read. – Kate has [...]

By: steveegg

steveegg — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 17:52:12 +0000

While the main file editor is gone, the plugin editor is still there (at least on my freshly-installed 2.5 test blog). Go to the “Plugin” page and either hit the “Edit” link for the plugin you want to edit or head to the global “Plugin Editor” subpage.

By: William Teach

William Teach — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 17:30:32 +0000

Hey, appreciate the info, locomotivebreath. I pretty much try to stay away from any Google integration, including their stats modules. I have toasted a theme or two that I like because I couldn’t get the stuff out of the template. I’ll check those ads sites out

Hey, Raven. What I do for ftp is two fold. For PC ftp using a Windows device, I click on Start>My Network Places>Add a New Network (this is using my corp. laptop, will have to see if diff on my personal one with Vista).

You will obviously need the correct settings. On my corp laptop, the connect shows under network places, on my personal laptop it is under the My Computer.

I use this type of ftp basically for uploading, viewing, moving quickly back and forth, and copying the stuff there and pasting to my hard drive, particularly with folders. My web ftp is not so good with handling folders, except for deleting them.

Most of the time, I use web ftp simply for deleting, checking the htaccess file, and looking at time stamps to see if stuff has been changed that shouldn’t. I use regular ftp about 90% of the time.

Are you using Mac or Windows? If Mac, you should be able to set it up in almost the same way.

By: Raven

Raven — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 14:05:08 +0000

Great! I don’t do *ads** because they look tacky on most blogs- AND because someone said a couple yrs back that using Google Ads would put your site at risk for this very thing. Even non blog sites have been hit recently with this hacking. It’s all about spam and nothing more- one would thing the spammers would see how this totally defeats their purpose. But alas they’re probably liberals LOL!!!

Teach what software do you use for ftp?? I need to get one.

By: locomotivebreath1901

locomotivebreath1901 — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 11:52:29 +0000

This is the info I left over at ‘a few good pens’. It’s not spam. Really!

I’m sorry to hear about your ‘hack’ problems, but even more pleased that you were able to solve the frustration.

Unfortunately, things like google, intenet explorer, word press, et al are high profile ‘hook’ targets simply because those things are so common.

Might I recommend ~not using googlag ad sense advertising? Amazon is a good start, but there are many other high quality, reliable ad networks. Try here for ten good choices. I chose ‘Chitika’, but it’s your preference. I was simply tired of being ‘evil’.