blog virus

What to do when your blog has a virus

by emanuele on May 5, 2009

The last time my blog was hacked was… let me remember… uh… yesterday.

But hackers know my blog since quite a long ago and they even made my blog be marked by Google as a site that may harm your computer.

Never mind, all these attacks gave me some experience about the typical WordPress hack.

So, when you realize your blog has been hacked, follow these steps:

Backup your ftp content

Simply open your favorite FTP client and download all the content of your site

Backup your MySQL database

Every decent hosting plan now supports PhpMyAdmin. With this tool you can export and save your entire database in a matter of seconds (or minutes, according to the size of your DB).

Look at this picture:



with your WP database selected, click on Export (1)
Then this is the next page:


remember to:

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