Violation of TOS

Well, yesterday wasn't fun. I went to look at my website and it was CLOSED!! There was a note saying for the webmaster to contact them at once. So, I did and they said it was closed because "violation of TOS - phishing detected." Um, okaaaaaaaay. Then, the guy tells me that I have to go through all my files and determine which ones don't belong.

What?

Really??

I hung up, then called back later after staring at .php and .dat files with glazed eyes. Luckily, I got someone else and he told me which files were affected. Why the other dude couldn't do it, is beyond me. Maybe he likes to make women suffer or something.

Anyway, after I deleted those files, they turned my site back on. Well, those files were important, it seemed.

Now, 24 hours later, I have totally reworked my site. 

Lesson: don't add any plugins in WordPress. However, my site is nice and shiny new now. 

It was a plugin that allowed me to tweet my posts.

No, I don't. I deleted the plug-in so there's no way of going back to check the name. Sorry.

It only takes a few minutes to back up the code. I usually keep a complete copy of the "engine" in a folder beside the "main" folder. if something goes wrong (and it has) I just rename them both and everything is happy and I can go through the "broken" code at my leisure.

never used wordpress though. I do know joomla, and modx, and a few others.

a year or more ago, Modx was pretty new and very complicated. Its improved a lot. Still more complicated than joomla but it fit what I needed for a project and after being hip deep in the engine for a few weeks I like it. (its not for those not comfortable with PHP)