I do keep regular backups however the issue is that this has been sitting silently for some time and changes made since the last clean backup would have been lost.
On 17 Sep 2014 07:16, "Colin Law" <clan...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 16 September 2014 21:08, Gareth France <gareth.fra...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Not ubuntu related but I'm hoping someone may have the answer I need. > Today > > I discovered my webspace has been hacked and several sites now contain > > additional code at the start of every single PHP file. Looking at my > backups > > I can see it has been there for a while so restoring from a very old > backup > > could cause me issues. > > > > Is there some way I could do a recursive find and delete on that code? > It is > > a very long single line including slashes, hashes, exclaimation marks > etc so > > using sed would be difficult as the examples I have seen show /thing to > > change/thing to change to/. > > Not helpful for solving the immediate problem I know, but for the > future the issue would be easy to solve if you kept a master copy of > your source in a version control system such as git. Then if the site > becomes compromised you can just replace it with the correct code. > Git is trivially easy to setup and start using. > > Colin > > -- > ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk > https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/ >
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