Hack the Planet!

May 12th, 2010

This morning when I went to check in on the site to see if everything loaded properly, my WordPress dashboard was all screwy. The admin dashboard didn’t seem to be calling the CSS correctly. Dicking around looking for answers online I came across some posts from people having similar problems. Somehow, there was a malicious line of code inserted into the first line of every one of their PHP files. I decided to do some digging and sure enough, on the first line of every goddamn PHP file was a line of code that wasn’t there before. Shit.

About then, a handful of YP fans emailed me with problems. There was some kind of redirect that sent them to a spammy website for virus protection. They figured it was a badly configured ad. But I think the problem was that yucky line of code. So I grabbed a fresh install of WordPress and Comicpress, changed my admin password, and uploaded clean versions of all the files. It should be all fresh and clean now. I think.

If anyone still has problems accessing the site, please let me know. I hope this fixed the problem, but I’m just a novice at this stuff. Comics, yeah, I can draw that shit. Bug busting? Uh… I may need more sophisticated help in the future.


  • greg

    Sounds a lot like what I had happen with groklife last year. Make sure you keep WP and all your addons up to date. Addons in general are great, but sometimes they aren’t the most secure.

    Everything looks good to me now though.

  • http://ypcomic.com Jamie

    I’m crossing my fingers. I’ve been pretty good about keeping all my plugins up to date along with the wordpress installs.

  • Teeny

    I think there was a rash of this going around, I got hit with the rouge anti-virus stuff last Friday, and still it seems some site haven’t cleared it up. MalwareBytes’ Anti-Malware cleans it up pretty good if anyone is still encountering issues, and it is interesting how with this one it was targeted at wordpress, tricky spammers.

  • http://ypcomic.com Jamie

    Man, that sucks. I hope it didn’t do too much damage. :(