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[Scott Wolpow]

I suggest using Bluehost.com and siteground.com as they were  our sponsors.
With bluehost.com when you have an issue, let me know about it after 
talking to support.

I have worked with C level management for almost 10 years now.

SW
On 10/19/2012 12:12 PM, Ellen Rothwax wrote:
> Hi folks,
> Not my day!!!!
>  I have been hacked on a couple of my Joomla sites in the past few 
> days. All are hosted on 1 & 1 , they are 1.5 and 2.5 sites, all the 
> latest versions.
> The hacks are different. One was redirecting to msn.com 
> <http://msn.com> another messed with my htaccess file and something in 
> the backend because oddly enough although I can see it, the dropdown 
> navigation in the backend doesn't work.The navigation icons in the 
> control panel do, but once you get to a different page, the save and 
> close buttons don't work. I am having the host roll back their backups 
> because mine are not helping.
> Has anyone had this experience?
> Other than using Admin tools and removing references to Joomla, any 
> suggestions to securing the sites better?
>
> On a different note, I just tried to restore a backup to a backup site 
> on a site that was not hacked to test it(I am paranoid now that my 
> backups won't help if they are corrupted). This site has Hikashop and 
> Easyblog on it. The restored backup (to a new database) isn't working 
> right. It is fine until you try to navigate to one of these extensions 
> and I get an error:
> Multiple Choices
> The document name you requested (/index.php) could not be found on 
> this server. However, we found documents with names similar to the one 
> you requested.
>
> Available documents:
>
> /index.html (common basename)
>
> Please consider informing the owner of the referring page about the 
> broken link.
>
>
> Any ideas why?
>
>
> Please make my day better!
>
> Ellen
>
>
>
> -- 
>
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> Ellen Rothwax
> Web Design and Development
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> have one.
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