[dmpinder]

Hey everyone,

I've just noticed my website has been victim of some kind of "hack" (I use the term loosely because I'm a hacking noob), and I'm not sure what I can do about it.

Look here: http://www.google.co...f&aqi=&aql=&oq=

A few of the pages listed are my own, but there are nearly 200 which are spam pages. Clicking on one takes you to the 404 error page. Firstly I can't work out how this has been achieved, and even more confusing why it goes to a 404 page instead of whatever spam page it was intended to go to.

My real question is - what can I do about this?

I've lost my top spot in Google for my name which I've held for a number of years, clearly because this has happened. I can't request Google remove the spam URLs because either I enter them one by one or I remove my whole site from Google. I've checked the blog and code and there are no further signs of attack, so what now?

Advice greatly appreciated.

Darren

[charliesaidthat]

Wordpress based? Sounds like it might be what is known as Gumblar... Discussion about it here

Small explaination here - http://www.themelab....search-engines/

[dmpinder]

@charliesaidthat, thanks for the reply. It does look like a "Gumblar", you're right. The advice on the second link about removing the links was to look for rogue admin accounts or strange files in the root - sadly I have neither, no I'm no closer to actually removing the stuff.

I've found a post which seems to give instructions (pretty standard stuff really) to clean the Wordpress which I'll be doing: http://www.techjaws....-wordpress-271/

Thanks for the help,

Darren

[c69]

Gumbar was just the first of them.
Check http://www.unmaskparasites.com/ and their blogs for some scary details on topic.

Becasue since late 2009 we can see increasing numbers of hijacks, either through holes in popular free blog engines, and through various ftp access hacks.