Yes, I'm overly careful with my passwords - and have changed both db
and ftp passwords several times since the first time I got the
warning. No files have been modified (at least, the timestamps say
they haven't) and I have scoured the database for anything unusual,
but nothing.

Google now says I'm hunky-dory and says "no suspicious stuff in the
last 90 days" which seems weird, because they just said "1 suspicious
thing found" a few days ago.

I'm not going to invest heaps of time re-writing code for the new wp,
so I'm happy to keep doing the "please review and re-ok my site" game
- but I'd also like not to distribute malware - is it likely that bad
dudes would hack your site, leave it there for a few days, then remove
the malware and cover their tracks? I can monitor file hashs and
logins on my account - but does I'd like to know if this is a common
sounding attack, or I'd just be wasting my time.

Thanks!


On Nov 15, 1:55 am, Debbie D <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> It's not random.. the bad guys either have your login info (you did
> change it from another computer didn't you?) and or they are using
> "bots" to search WP sites for vulnerabilities.. the attack you had
> this time may be a different one, from a different group.. there are
> a million scenarios..
> Debbie
>
> At 05:29 PM 11/12/2008, you wrote:
>
>
>
> >Thanks for your help guys - after review last night I was un-badded
> >again... But It's really a bit concerning to me - I check all my
> >comments as they come in, and I have checked all my wordpress files
> >and they seem clean (and at least unmodified for a long time!) - It IS
> >an old (highly modified) version of wordpress (I try to keep up with
> >security issues, but it's certainly possible I've missed something.
>
> >My question is - why would it be "random" - My site was deemed to have
> >badware, I request review, it gets "okay"-ed. 5 months later - a
> >repeat. (and the 20 or so emails and DM's I get from people letting me
> >know ;)
>
> >Do you guys know of some kind of badware attacks that just sit dormant
> >for 5 months?! Any suggestions on what I might check to prevent this
> >from happening again in April 2009? ;)
>
> >Thanks again!
>
> >On Nov 12, 3:59 pm, Mr Speaker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > Hi, my site (http://mrspeaker.webeisteddfod.com/) has been flagged by
> > > stopbadware again. Last time (about 5 monts ago) I was forced to join
> > > up google webmaster things to request a "review". Within a few hours
> > > my site was deemed un-bad again, but with no details on why they
> > > thought it was bad.
>
> > > I don't have any ads, or third-party stuff on my blog, but I do have
> > > tonnes of javascript (hey, that's what the blog is about ;) - I
> > > thought some of that (xbm image code) might have triggered it as it
> > > contains hex encoded strings etc.
>
> > > So i removed the potentially offending parts - and I thought that must
> > > have been it, as I wasn't bothered by stopbadware again.
>
> > > But today it has re-surfaced. The google message is :
> > > Of the 1 pages we tested on the site over the past 90 days, 1 page(s)
> > > resulted in malicious software being downloaded and installed without
> > > user consent. The last time Google visited this site was on
> > > 2008-11-10, and the last time suspicious content was found on this
> > > site was on 2008-11-10.
> > > Malicious software is hosted on 1 domain(s), including 202.75.35.0.
>
> > > I've been scouring over the html output and can't see anything
> > > weird... is there anyway of finding out a bit more information, so
> > > that I can try and stop this happening again?
>
> > > Thanks!
>
> Regards,
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