How to Get Rid of Spam Links

  • Help! Help!

    Since yesterday, we have a SPAM link appearing just below the title of our WordPress website, built using Canvas by WooThemes. Here’s the site:

    https://bellinghamsings.org

    Look in the upper left, below the title.

    I ran the site through Sucuri SiteCheck, and it gets a “clean” bill of health, no malware, no “injected spam”, no blacklisting.

    I have no idea where to go from here. I’ve contacted the host, “Netfirms”, and their advice was for me to DOWNLOAD all the site’s files onto my own computer and then run a virus check. This makes absolutely no sense to me — downloading an infected site’s files onto my own machine??

    How does one FIND the source of the spam code and link for viagra?

    Any help would be greatly appreciated! Thank you.

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  • Thread Starter yukon4

    (@yukon4)

    The odd thing now is that I do NOT see the Viagra link from my machine anymore — yet everyone else I’ve spoken to still does. Our host, Netfirms, confirmed that they too saw the spam link. I’m on a Mac — weird that it no longer displays for me??

    Thread Starter yukon4

    (@yukon4)

    Ah — I found a big block of weird code in our functions.php file. I deleted all of it, and replaced with a “clean” functions.php and the Viagra link is now gone.

    Can anyone recommend a way to prevent this? How did they get into our functions.php file? Is this an issue with the host, Netfirms?

    Thank you.

    Thread Starter yukon4

    (@yukon4)

    Anybody? Any suggestions on some basic preventative measures to prevent or thwart future hacks leaving malicious code within our files?

    How did they get into our functions.php files?

    Thanks –

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