New to Joomla, friend has hacked unpatched site. Pointers?

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New to Joomla, friend has hacked unpatched site. Pointers?

Post by yeshello » Wed May 08, 2013 6:06 am

Hey there.

Total noob in Joomla, so I apologize in advance for any stupid questions. Friend has been running an unpatched older version of Joomla and got hacked. The backup is equally messed up ( i don't know how long this has been). I get this result running the fpa-en.php . I would loveto simply upgrade it all but I'm not sure where to begin with the patching here, despite all the very useful info generated by this. I've searched the forums and am afraid I didn't get far by following advice in previous threads.

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EDIT deleted because I'm a fool and it was quite obvious what needed to be done here.

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I'll go find useful posts on how to upgrade, now that I have the site working again. If any mods roll around, feel free to delete this post. :D

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Re: New to Joomla, friend has hacked unpatched site. Pointer

Post by mandville » Wed May 08, 2013 9:09 am

in the forum stickies is a link to security checklist 7,
follow the instrctions in the section- a safe route....
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