reset website

[mre-teach]

My website (wordpress blog) was hacked (phishing scam) and I had bluehost reset everything so I could just start over.

So now, I go into Cpanel and look at recent visitor IP address and I see where 4 IP addresses are trying to access the deleted WP folders and files. Just wondering if there is anything I should do.

Thanks

[Early Out]

Probably nothing to be concerned about. Maybe some visitors bookmarked some things. Maybe there are still links to things on your site at Google. Maybe the IP addresses are, in fact, just search engines trying to revisit your site. Lots of harmless explanations.

Just make sure when you start over that you don't open your site up to the hackers again. Install the latest version of Wordpress, of course, and keep it up-to-date. Be careful about installing third-party addons, plugins, etc., which might not be secure.

[mre-teach]

...for the reassurance. Big lesson learned deciding to reset things a month back. I'm not doing WP again at this time since I'm restructuring my site to reflect the needs of a (now) job seeking teacher. :(

Thanks again

[mre-teach]

....that my security problems came from not updating WP. But....

Is there any need/way to test some my HTML pages that contain embeds (Flowplayer, Animoto, etc) to ensure their security?

[Early Out]

Your site can't be hacked through an HTML page, because there's no server-side processing in HTML. Everything is done in the browser. So, something like Flowplayer isn't executing on the server, so it can't affect any of your files.

[mre-teach]

...that entire episode really set me back on my heals and made me cautious.