I have to say that I am thrilled with all this conversation although I wish it didn’t have to happen. I got hacked in October on 10 sites and it was bad enough that I had to nuke my entire hosting account. I had backups for 3 months and it seems it must have been a time bomb because regardless of how far back I went, within 24 hours I was in trouble again. Now I NEVER get rid of a backup. I keep a gmail account for each sites backup. And I do keep my sites updated regularly, so that wasn’t the problem.
I might add, the hosting company was not Network Solutions.
I will follow some of the solutions here though to prevent it from happening again.
Sleenie