Is Your Blog Spreading a Virus?

This blog and ViennaLopez.com have been hacked. Since I was not able to visit my blogs for several days, I don’t know when exactly these two blogs got the virus. I got back from my vacation yesterday and when I checked my blogs I learned thru my Kaspersky antivirus’ constant warnings that Blogleafs.com and ViennaLopez.com are spreading a Trojan Downloader virus. The virus is acquired by anybody who loads these two blogs.

I searched for possible causes why my blogs are spreading a virus and I also searched for fixes but I was not able to find answers. In the end, I decided to just re-install Wordpress. So what I did was I deleted all the WP files except the core files (ie, wp-content folder and its contents and wp-config.php) and uploaded a fresh new batch of the deleted files from the latest version of WP. And that did it. Now the virus is gone and my WP is upgraded. So if your blog is spreading a virus too, doing what I did (given that you have a WP blog) is an effective way to remove the virus.

My other blogs are virus free however; I decided to upgrade them as well. I guess WP 2.3.1 is vulnerable to hacks so it’s better to upgrade blogs that are running WP 2.3.1 to Wp2.3.3. I will be working on them tomorrow and hopefully I can finish them so I can resume blogging and doing sponsored posts on the following days.

Again, the virus is gone. Blogleafs.com is once again safe so you may visit it again sometimes without having to worry about getting a virus.