Ok after deleting many old posts and hunting for the proverbial needle in a haystack I actually found a hidden link in a post!! It was a post that I added so it was definitely a hack that added the malicious link, which could only be seen in code view. Most end users couldn’t click on it as it was hidden in <noscript> tags but google could obviously see it.
So what did I learn?
- I’ve learn’t to keep up to date with security patches and updates-so I’ve now updated to WordPress 2.5 from 2.2 hoping it is more secure.
- I’ve learn’t to check the User’s table for any new suspicious users- not that I saw any but you never know.
- That once you are marked as “bad” within google it can take forever to be upmarked!!! But I’ll let you know how long if ever I ever get unmarked.
- I’d made the assumption that I’d been marked as”This site may cause harm to your computer” within an hour of updating my theme and doing general maintenance but this marking may occurred a few weeks ago as I haven’t done a search for it in the last few weeks so I should keep an idea of whats happening in Google rather than making assumptions.
- The more you do online the more likely you are of coming into contact with a hack so it’s a case of not if but when.