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See FAQ: My site was hacked ? WordPress Codex and How to completely clean your hacked wordpress installation and How to find a backdoor in a hacked WordPress and Hardening WordPress ? WordPress Codex and tell your host.

Change all passswords. Scan your own PC. Some plugins might be useful: Search for “security” ? WordPress Plugins

I’ll be reading these tonight, thank you.
I use 1&1 and they are not helpful beyond “change your FTP password.” So I’m here, and appreciate the links.

There are other web hosts that are much better and more secure than 1&1
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I appreciate the list. I bought a car with less effort than this. (Three friends had the particular car, all had no complaints. Comfortable ride, etc.)

Bluehost comes up first on list, but sites like WebHostingGeeks shows a low (of top ten) rank.

I understand, the number of those with issues are more likely to complain, than the number of those who are happy will go write nice things. So volume oddly drives the bad reviews. I just interviewed BH on chat and at least the salesgal seemed to offer more info that was helpful. I understand much of the work is mine, but current host fails right now.

Just my two cents on hosting… I’ve hosting on Bluehost for years, and really can’t complain about them. Really the only host I’ve found that I like better is Site5, and even that is by a pretty slim margin (I like their propitiatory admin panel better than Bluehost’s cPanel).

kionae – have you been hacked ever?
In my IM interview with BlueHost, at least she was able to talk about how they scan for these things, it’s not just left for me to discover after the fact.

No, I’ve never been hacked on Bluehost. I run four WordPress installs and a fifth site that runs on custom-written code on my hosting account, and never had a problem.