So I am pretty much screwed lol but I am trying to fix this.
A few days ago I was contacted by host-gator and told that I was hacked and I had malicious content on 3 of my sites. I went and deleted those files and a buddy of mine cleaned up the mess on a few other issues.’ Host Gator would not help me and tried to extort me for money to BUY their SiteLock thing. Wouldn’t even give me any tips or any help at all. Just sort of left me hanging.
Everything was fine for almost a week.
Suddenly last night they contacted me again for 3 more sites and said I had malicious content on my sites, they needed to be removed and I needed to fix other issues NOT in their report. I had my buddy go in again and he says that there are over 100 scripted malware issues. Again. Host gator would not help, but they sure suggested SiteLock pretty quickly.
Awesome. *sarcasm*. My buddy is in the process of getting rid of the malware manually but said it would take 5 days and I am freaking out because I am afraid this hacker is going to come and screw something else up between now and 5 days from now.
Anyway. I heard really good things about WordFence, Sucuri and a few other plug ins. So I figured while my guy was doing what he could, I would do the same.
I did the scan for Wordfence and they found a hacked file called wp-includes/kses.php. It would not let me delete or remove it from the WordFence program on WordPress so I just manually went in to find it in the code and removed it on my own. A bunch of jumbled text came up, so I re-pasted the removed malware text into the code, went back to Wordfence, refreshed my page and tried again. This time Wordfence let me remove it via their interface on WordPress. But…. then I refreshed the page again to do a re-scan and I got errors.
You can see them if you visit my website:
Warning: require(/home3/kristi77/public_html/gamerselite.com/wp-includes/kses.php): failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /home3/kristi77/public_html/gamerselite.com/wp-settings.php on line 194
Fatal error: require(): Failed opening required ‘/home3/kristi77/public_html/gamerselite.com/wp-includes/kses.php’ (include_path=’.:/opt/php56/lib/php’) in /home3/kristi77/public_html/gamerselite.com/wp-settings.php on line 194
I was wondering if anyone had any layman terms on how to fix this. Now I cannot even get to the Admin for WordPress lol.
Also, is anyone aware of any CPANEL malware scanners?