Malware detected!

[Krynn72]

I got this the other day too, but I forget which thread I went into. Today I went into Kaptain H's "Art Stuff" thread and this popped up in Chrome.

 

[AtomicSpark]

Probably a hotlinked image or advertisement.

 

[Kaptain H]

My old personal website, where I've been uploading many of my images to for forums and stuff for years, was running on an outdated version of joomla and got attacked by a script bot. The script has been removed and the main site shut down until we can upgrade, so it doesn't happen again.

Everything is safe and taken care of, but I still have to report back to Google that the page is clean. Until they clear it, all of my images linked from there will appear flagged in this way.

A huge pain in the ass, in other words. But this reminds me that I still have to email them about it.

 

[AtomicSpark]

Joomla

WordPress is also notorious for getting hacked.

 

[Kaptain H]

Joomla

WordPress is also notorious for getting hacked.

Yeah, I was looking into it, and there was a huge wave of attacks on the old version recently. I don't even think about the site anymore, but I'm mostly concerned about my main uploading source, plus my boyfriend's professional portfolio site is under that account as well. Freaking Joomla.

 

[Dinnesch]

Hmm, someone is asking me to make a website+webshop in Joomla+Virtuemart soon, this makes me a bit unsure if this is a safe combination for a webshop..

 

[Kaptain H]

Hmm, someone is asking me to make a website+webshop in Joomla+Virtuemart soon, this makes me a bit unsure if this is a safe combination for a webshop..

As long as you keep it up to date, it shouldn't be too much of an issue. Mine was running on a version I stopped updating in 2006, so what happened is no surprise to me.

 

[<RJMC>]

how a wordpress gets hacked?

how it can be avoided?

I ask cuz I was planing on use it

 

[No Limit]

how a wordpress gets hacked?

how it can be avoided?

I ask cuz I was planing on use it

By keeping up with all the security patches they put out as well as doing such things as turning register globals off. I don't recall if wordpress uses a seperate folder for admin functions but if it does you can paassword protect those directories using .htaccess.