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Strange thing happening to one of my websites

by Ehsan_am
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I have this wordpress website that loads into my browser perfectly but when I search for the domain on Google and click the link I end up on a poker website and my antivirus gives me an alert. Does anyone know what is going on?
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  • Profile picture of the author Sillysoft
    Your site could be hacked. Or your computer itself has been infected.
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    • Profile picture of the author options
      Sounds like your site has been hacked. Sounds like they are using a redirect just on search engines.
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  • Profile picture of the author Ehsan_am
    Ok, so my best option would be to redo the whole website right?
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    • Profile picture of the author Sillysoft
      Originally Posted by Ehsan_am View Post

      Ok, so my best option would be to redo the whole website right?
      Contact your hosting provider, they usually can scan and find out whats going on. A friend of mine had a similar issue and contacted his provider and they fixed the issue. Not saying this can be fixed, but before starting over talk to your hosting provider. You might be able to get away with cleaning your existing installation, if that does happen I suggest you change your wp admin password, db password and even ftp password.
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      • Profile picture of the author options
        Originally Posted by Sillysoft View Post

        Contact your hosting provider, they usually can scan and find out whats going on. A friend of mine had a similar issue and contacted his provider and they fixed the issue. Not saying this can be fixed, but before starting over talk to your hosting provider. You might be able to get away with cleaning your existing installation, if that does happen I suggest you change your wp admin password, db password and even ftp password.
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    • Profile picture of the author options
      Originally Posted by Ehsan_am View Post

      Ok, so my best option would be to redo the whole website right?
      Contact your hosting provider and they will get it sorted for you. Once they do change all your passwords.

      I had the same problem with mine. I am with hostgator and they sorted it for me within a hour.

      You should of posted this in the website design forum.
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  • Profile picture of the author xela
    check your .htaccess files for redirecting code.
    If you find nothing then check recently modified php files for strange code.

    Get last modification time of infected files and find it in http logs. This may help you to find some webshell or website vulnerability.

    you may find this guide useful:
    Malicious Redirects - Common Fixing Guide v1
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  • Profile picture of the author Kingfish85
    I have this wordpress website that loads into my browser perfectly
    So it works fine if you type the site directly into your browser?

    but when I search for the domain on Google and click the link I end up on a poker website
    Does it only redirect if going from a link? Possibly a browser problem, spyware/adware junk.
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    • Profile picture of the author Larry Leggett
      Originally Posted by Kingfish85 View Post

      Does it only redirect if going from a link? Possibly a browser problem, spyware/adware junk.
      I also think so. I think you should re install your browser to get rid of this problem. Hopefully, it will solve the problem.
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  • Profile picture of the author talfighel
    I would go to other computers and see if this is true or not.
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  • Profile picture of the author RyanLB
    Check your website in all search engines, not just Google. Check the .htaccess document. If nothing suspicious is in there, you're going to have to go through your code line by line to see if the problem is in there. There is never a reason to start your website from scratch because of something like this. Chances are it's a simple wordpress exploit or something.
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  • Profile picture of the author kimseo
    You site is hacked It's very common hack for wordpress based sites/blog
    Check wp-config.php
    you will find some eval code with php opening tag E.g.

    <? php eval(............)

    remove eval part, You will be fine.
    I suggest you change file permission for wp-config. By default, It has 644 (Change it into 600)
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