hacked
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my blog has been hacked and links have been put in to a site that is nothing to do with me,,,
The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)
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If anyone is posting anything to your blog or removing anything from it, or if your blog has been deleted and you did not delete it, then it’s most likely that you have provided them with the ability to do so, either deliberately by adding them as official users, or by allowing them access to your login information, or by posting content that makes it easy for them to guess what your log-in information is.
Who, aside from you, has access to your login information?
Go to your email program and change the password to a very difficult one because that’s how many hackers gain access to blogs
Read > http://en.support.wordpress.com/security/
1. If you can log-in go here > Users > All Users and delete any user that does not belong there.
2. Disable post by email > http://en.support.wordpress.com/post-by-email/
3. Disable post by voice > http://en.support.wordpress.com/post-by-voice/
4. Change your blog password to a very difficult one > http://en.support.wordpress.com/passwords/#change-your-password
You can also reset your password via your Settings tab on the WordPress.com home page:
http://wordpress.com/#!/settings/5. Use a secure, encrypted connection to connect to your Dashboard. Under Users → Personal Settings, check the box that says “Always use HTTPS when visiting administration pages, and click Save Changes.
6. Use two step authentication http://en.support.wordpress.com/security/two-step-authentication/
P.S. Staff have records of who did what under which username and login information and when they did it. I flagged this thread for a Staff follow-up. Please subscribe to it so you are notified when they respond. To subscribe look in the sidebar of this thread, find the subscribe to topics link and click it.
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and links have been put in to a site that is nothing to do with me,,,
The blog I need help with is sashapeggs.wordpress.com.
Any example?
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I do not see any suspicious link in that site. Maybe it’s a problem with your browser (malware, etc)
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re: Highlighted words within post linked to advertisements
To off-set the costs of providing free hosting to millions of bloggers, WordPress.com has been running advertising on our free hosted blogs since 2006. If the ads then provided you see this small About These Ads link what you are seeing is WordPress.com generated advertising. http://en.wordpress.com/about-these-ads/
Any other ads appearing to you are not placed by WordPress.com. You have an issue on your browser or computer. They are being placed there by software on your own computer, unfortunately. These ads are sometimes caused by malware or a virus, but more often it is due to a browser extension or toolbar that you may have installed in your browser.
These sites have further explanation and suggestions for eliminating the ads:
http://www.littletechiethings.com/2012/06/how-to-remove-ads-not-by-this-site.html
http://blog.wikimedia.org/2012/05/14/ads-on-wikipedia-your-computer-infected-malware/
http://onecoolsitebloggingtips.com/2012/09/14/bloggers-beware-of-adware/
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Ok looks like they’ve been put in by wordpress. Which explains why it jumps straight back on there again. Is there nothing I can do to stop this as it demeans the content of my posts enormously???
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I do not see any either but you posted before I could post my second response above.
Yep.
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Ok looks like they’ve been put in by wordpress. Which explains why it jumps straight back on there again. Is there nothing I can do to stop this as it demeans the content of my posts enormously???
You can purchase an annually renewable premium upgrade as it contains a no-ads upgrade and then no ads will appear on your blog.
Premium bundle details http://store.wordpress.com/plans/premium/@galois
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Ahh that makes sense I wondered what you got if you upgraded.. Thanks so much for your help. I now know what I need to do…
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It looks like this has already been resolved thanks to @galois and @timethief. I suspect these are ads placed on your site by WordPress.com to help keep free features free. You’ll often see them in spots like this one:
You can read more about that here:
http://en.support.wordpress.com/advertising/
Let us know if you have any more questions!
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the virus or malware software is called Cinemapro1-2
has anyone else heard of this?I have reset my browser, run virus barrier express, deleted all spyware using MacScan 2, deleted all suspicious applications from my computer and the bloody things are still showing all over my WordPress page and all over any other website that I go to…
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Does this help?
How do I remove Cinemapro1-2? https://discussions.apple.com/thread/6821991?start=0&tstart=0 -
I think this is what we were following earlier. I have someone coming to help in the morning. Thanks for the advice..
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