A few of our clients have recently been affected by a malicious Wordpress hack/virus. It took their entire site down and displayed a white screen with a few strips of error code on the screen. We have spent the last 24 hours troubleshooting these issues and what we have learned is that the best way to protect your website from this malicious activity is to always upgrade your Wordpress to the most recent version.

If you notice an alert at the top of the page that says “Please Update Now”, please make sure you do so. Select “Upgrade Automatically”.

Since hackers are very creative in finding loopholes, there is no guarantee this will prevent any future issues, but it makes your site much less vulnerable. The most recent version of Wordpress is 2.8.4, today, Wednesday September 9th, 2009.

For more information, perform a Google search, you will find many people had this same problem and offer suggestions for clearing the files of the harmful code.

Happy Blogging!