I believe my site was hacked

Discussion in 'Site & Server Administration' started by ajhicks66, May 17, 2009.

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    I was looking at my page source after having some problems with my feed and the head profile has been changed to <head profile="http://gmpg.org/xfn/11"> and it has all these red forward slashes all over the place in it. To some this may be funny but i dont know much about this stuff so i am really lost. i dont know if that has anything to do with the trouble i am having or not Any help would be appreciated. Thanks in advance. God Bless
     
    ajhicks66, May 17, 2009 IP
  2. SteveWh

    SteveWh Member

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    I believe I've seen that attribute in sites that have not been hacked, and tend to doubt this is the result of a hack. You can read something about gmpg at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GMPG, especially the part where it says they provide some nonstandard attribute values.

    Nothing malicious is mentioned at http://www.siteadvisor.com/sites/gmpg.org/summary/.

    Here is another place it's discussed: http://wordpress.org/support/topic/216731

    Sounds like this might be put on the page by your WordPress theme(?)

    The page referenced in your post is safe to visit, and just describes the "XFN" feature: http://gmpg.org/xfn/11 .

    So the red slashes you're seeing are most likely due to something else.
     
    SteveWh, May 17, 2009 IP
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    rliddle Peon

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    We will solve your hack. See my signature. Hope we can help.
     
    rliddle, May 19, 2009 IP
  4. Mem700X

    Mem700X Well-Known Member

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    what softwares are people using to hack?
     
    Mem700X, May 20, 2009 IP