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Hi,

I see an URL in my tracking (I use histats for tracking) report that goes like this:

http://www.mydomainname.com/~bertali/wp-admin/js/source/1155507930/axs/indexx.php (I replaced my actual domain's name with "mydomainname" but everything that follows after .com is accurate)

I pasted this URL in the browser and I got a "reported web forgery" warning (the one with red screen), and I'm afraid this might be a virus or something bad anyway. Yet, my website loads and functions well for now.

So, does anybody know what this "~bertali" thing is, and if I should worry about it or not? Also, I tried locating it in my hosting account via FTP but I couldn't.
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  • Sounds like you're on cPanel hosting. As the "/~bertali/" part of the url is a standard cPanel way of loading your website before you point the domain to the account. So "bertali" is the username of either your account or another account on the same server as your hosting account.

    As to the "reported web forgery" error, that could be a number of things. Now I have cleaned many WP infections for clients in the past and the filename at the end of your URL indexx.php is too familiar and leads me to the conclusion that your WP website has been infected with a spamming bot.

    I would recommend contacting your hosting company to confirm, but I will let you know ahead of time that once they confirm the site is infected they will more than likely disable http access to your account until you get that infection cleaned.

    Cleaning an infected WP is not horribly hard but it does take an above average experience level on WP management.
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    • Well, thanks. This confirms that it's something bad with my website, even if it's not apparent.

      Also, yeah I'm on cpanel. And also (and since you brought this up), yeah I do remember having another website hacked a month, or two ago, and contacting my hosting's support they said something along the lines "next time when we catch you with a website hacked we suspend your account". Not sure if these were the exact words, but I remember how infuriated I was for getting the blame for something I wasn't guilty of. That's when I decided I wanted to change my hosting provider.

      But anyway, I digress... the point is that I need to get this fixed ASAP, even though I have no idea how ... Guess I'll google it.

      Thanks a lot for the clarification!

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