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[SOLVED] Strange Characters Showing up on pages - Â


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Old Mar 20, 2013, 05:18 PM
GOWeb2point0
 
14 posts · Nov 2009
I got a call from a client that their site had started to display strange characters on their pages like this: Â

Any ideas on what would cause this?

site is: http://prescottaccountants.com/

Using Version 3.7.11

Thanks in advance for your assistance.

Patrick
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Old Mar 20, 2013, 07:11 PM
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23,765 posts · Mar 2009
OSX 10.11.5 WP 4.x Atahualpa(all) Safari, Firefox, Chrome
where are they showing up?
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Old Mar 21, 2013, 08:59 AM
GOWeb2point0
 
14 posts · Nov 2009
Thanks for chiming in JD!

I discovered that the site had been hacked and the index.php was changed to redirect to a porn site.

The change did not allow the charset to be set correctly and thus the characters were not displaying correctly.

I changed the site password and hope that this doesn't happen again.

Thanks again, Patrick

Last edited by juggledad; Mar 21, 2013 at 01:30 PM.
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Old Mar 21, 2013, 09:45 AM
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if the site was hacked, make sure to change al FTP Cpanel and and WP admin passwords and check the entire site for other corruption.

You might want to try the plugin 'WordFence' and have it do a scan of the site.
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Old Mar 21, 2013, 01:05 PM
GOWeb2point0
 
14 posts · Nov 2009
Great advice, JD

I upgraded to latest WP

Installed WordFence, did a scan...all clean

And changed all WP and FTP passwords

Thanks again for the great support!

Last edited by juggledad; Mar 21, 2013 at 01:30 PM.

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