I got hacked... and Google shut me down!

Hello Visitors,

 

On Thursday I emailed you about a new blog post on

IncomeDiary. Some of you would of been presented

with a warning by Google at that time about a malware

attack. In short, this is a malicious software trying to do

something "naughty".

 

The problem, however wasn't with IncomeDiary, it was

my other blog Retireat21. Retireat21 got hacked and

Google put up a warning to visitors about it. Unfortunately

I had a image on IncomeDiary, hosted by Retireat21, so it

was displaying the warning there as well. Long story short,

we fixed the problems, here's a few suggestions:

• Remove unused users from Wordpress.
• Remove old unused Wordpress themes.
• Remove all unused Wordpress plugins.
  
• Upgrade Wordpress to most recent version.
  
• Get a good host that will help you out when this happens.
• Make sure you have backups of your website.

What my host did was they ran a scan of my website,

found the bad files and removed them. We also reverted

back to a saved backup of the site we had from a day prior

to the hacking. I resubmitted myself to Google (in Google

Webmaster Tools) and hours later, I was back!

 

Two weeks prior to this, Expert Photography got hacked.

This was different and because the site was young, they

actually removed us from Google search for weeks till we

fixed the problem. To remove this hack, we deleted an old

Wordpress theme and upgraded Wordpress to the latest

version. We then resubmitted ourselves to Google and we

were back!

I'm by no means a blog protection expert, I just wanted to

update you all about what happened and what I did to fix it.

I would like to thank the 100's of you who emailed me

about the warning!

In case you were not able to see the post on Thursday, here

is the link again:

How We Run Expert Photography With 12 Hours a Week

To Your Success,

Michael Dunlop

Happy Sunday :)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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