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Originally Posted by Gavin  Sounds like a right nightmare and its been hitting a lot of WP users. Nice that Google Webmaster Tools grabbed your attention. |
Yeah its a good one alright. I am lucky in that
a.) It wasn't a big site or anything like that. Just a hobby site.
b.) No further damage was done.
c.) It didn't affect the main site on the same domain. (Search results wise) or hacker wise. Most likely an automated script that managed it.
Its a good lesson in keeping your WP install up to date. I let it slide because I wasn't working on the site.
It was the drop off in traffic in Analytics that first indicated a problem. Then when I couldn't find the site indexed it started to come together.
As you say its great Google alerted me, however I feel sorry for those who are not in the "know" like the simple business owners.
I will probably migrate the blog to Drupal when I find the time. I am hoping to run all my websites off the 1 install and then I can only worry about managing 1 code base.