| === arif-ali_ is now known as arif-ali | ||
| daftykins | oh damn we lost diddledani D: | 19:57 |
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| * davef pokes lucyllewy | 20:13 | |
| daftykins | OOOOOOH | 20:13 |
| daftykins | i did just bring up the names and was all... hey i don't recognise that one | 20:14 |
| davef | yeah, she's still about. | 20:14 |
| * lucyllewy waves! | 20:14 | |
| lucyllewy | yeah I changed my name again :-p | 20:14 |
| daftykins | lucyllewy: ol' buddy, ol' pal... i know you despise that category of work these days... but my dentist pal has had his wordpress site suspended due to a malware infection D: | 20:14 |
| lucyllewy | gah. I can have a look. | 20:14 |
| daftykins | i'll have to try and snag a backup or something as it's just been disabled - he uses a German provider called Strato | 20:15 |
| davef | can somebody remove my malware infection? | 20:15 |
| lucyllewy | oh lord. I've heard of strato being a pain | 20:15 |
| daftykins | their automated setup found something in wp-config.php so i tried stripping out some obfuscated looking string, but any repeat attempts to rescan the site seem to keep saying "nope, still bad" | 20:15 |
| daftykins | only had a quick gander before we went for beer and Thai food in honesty | 20:16 |
| * davef received the latest human malware | 20:16 | |
| daftykins | i'll see if i can grab a dump | 20:16 |
| daftykins | davef: o rly, any symptoms? | 20:17 |
| davef | all of them | 20:17 |
| daftykins | i thought they kept getting weaker! | 20:19 |
| davef | well, i've had congestion, sore throat, cough, headache and runny nose. | 20:20 |
| davef | which is akin to a cold, but not really a cold. | 20:20 |
| daftykins | sense of taste still with you? that's the one that frustrated me the most | 20:20 |
| * penguin42 reformats davef | 20:20 | |
| daftykins | ruined a curry for me :( | 20:20 |
| davef | didn't lose my sense of taste or smell | 20:20 |
| daftykins | phew, well so long as you can still sample jaffa cakes... | 20:21 |
| davef | here in lies the problem | 20:21 |
| daftykins | say it ain't so? | 20:22 |
| davef | the jaffa cake situation is critical | 20:22 |
| daftykins | ohno | 20:22 |
| davef | nobody has been making any deposits to dave's jaffa cake awareness charity | 20:23 |
| penguin42 | Nurse! 1kg of Jaffa cakes! Stat! | 20:23 |
| davef | i can provide a PO BOX to anyone who wishes to donate | 20:23 |
| daftykins | he's under house arrest? | 20:23 |
| daftykins | presumably | 20:23 |
| davef | you can call it that, but self inflicted. | 20:24 |
| daftykins | ah har | 20:24 |
| daftykins | lucyllewy: well tbh this webdev guy of my dentist pals who is going on holiday tomorrow, he pointed me to this 'updraft' directory which has backups in it, i just mooched all of them from the Strato SFTP - Jan, Feb and March - maybe i can get away with just grabbing a base WordPress zip, tinkering on a VM, transplanting the theme and importing the db - then hope for the best? xD he did tell me his | 20:28 |
| daftykins | own approach would be to install some kind of malware scanning plugin | 20:28 |
| daftykins | ok that was a long message | 20:28 |
| daftykins | i presume it's down to a lack of updates of plugins that this occurred... webdev guy did tell me that my client doesn't have a contract with him so that's why it ended up like this | 20:29 |
| daftykins | i feel like i may be able to spare you the pain xD | 20:30 |
| daftykins | hmm interesting the way this thing does backups, separate zips for db, "others", plugins, themes, uploads | 20:31 |
| lucyllewy | yeah, lack of updates or plugins that are abandoned are the main reason for malware getting in | 21:07 |
| lucyllewy | updraft is a backup plugin so you should be able to install a new wordpress and then updraft and then restore the backups with that. It's not certain you will have a backup that is from before the infection tho, so YMMV | 21:09 |
| daftykins | *nod* | 21:13 |
| daftykins | LOL i just loaded the staged site and the login page is the suspension one | 21:15 |
| lucyllewy | oops | 21:15 |
| daftykins | <-- smrt | 21:15 |
| daftykins | i didn't really do what i described above though | 21:15 |
| lucyllewy | wait, you mean to tell me you're not a silly filly? | 21:16 |
| lucyllewy | *shocked* | 21:16 |
| daftykins | with all the beers from earlier i very much am | 21:16 |
| lucyllewy | 🤠| 21:16 |
| daftykins | i wonder how they handle that suspension page | 21:17 |
| daftykins | or whether i should just not care and step back through the backups | 21:17 |
| daftykins | OH! | 21:23 |
| daftykins | ok the beer was definitely winning because i didn't edit my hosts file, so of course i saw the suspension page xD | 21:23 |
| daftykins | l o l | 21:23 |
| davef | so who's donating to canadian jaffa cake relief? POBOX available upon request | 21:26 |
| daftykins | any local sites that stock 'em? | 21:27 |
| davef | sometimes but never guaranteed | 21:28 |
| davef | I could use amazon, but damn 3rd party suppliers are shaky at best | 21:29 |
| daftykins | yeah don't they hock stale ones sometimes? | 21:38 |
| davef | yeah | 21:39 |
| davef | i usually wait until i visit to buy more | 21:39 |
| davef | hopefully this june i'll be back | 21:39 |
| daftykins | oh man now i got the site working but i don't know an admin login do i? | 21:39 |
| daftykins | ok found the SQL method | 21:40 |
| daftykins | why on earth does it have translations for a billion languages for every plugin o0 | 21:49 |
| daftykins | i'm gonna give this 'jetpack' plugin a try for malware scanning | 21:52 |
| daftykins | well they all want to be able to reach the real site, don't they - ugh | 22:15 |
| daftykins | i don't even get why pagelinks don't work, despite changing the permalink setting to basic - links on-page are still custom | 22:19 |
| daftykins | oh damn i won | 23:05 |
| daftykins | persistence++ | 23:05 |
| daftykins | lucyllewy: thanks, you were the best rubber duck a guy could ask for! 8D | 23:28 |
| lucyllewy | `o/ | 23:28 |
| lucyllewy | \o/ | 23:28 |
| daftykins | hell, the whole channel is :) | 23:28 |
| lucyllewy | rub the duck! | 23:28 |
| daftykins | i eventually found some plugin called CleanTalk that claims it's clean, but i don't know if it is | 23:28 |
| daftykins | at some point in the future i will try and now backup what i produced and squirt it back onto the web hosting i suppose | 23:28 |
| lucyllewy | 💟 \well done! | 23:29 |
| daftykins | ty! | 23:29 |
| daftykins | .htaccess and AllowOverride All were the final tricks it seemed | 23:30 |
| daftykins | g'night all! | 23:42 |
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