harlow84 Posted January 25, 2011 Share Posted January 25, 2011 Hi all, I am at a point of desperation!We had someone set up our website and install oscommerce. That person now know longer works with us and I have to update our oscommerce due to quite a few hacks having happened. I have no idea how to do this!Please help,I have gone from knowing nothing about web world and now its my task to do the site. I have learnt a bit but as its all php Im still learning.Our current version is 2.2 RC2a if that helps. Any ideas as to where I start? Thanks in advance. S-J Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted January 25, 2011 Share Posted January 25, 2011 Follow these steps to clean and secure your website: 1) Lock down your site by using an .htaccess password so your customers are not attacked by the hackers code. 2) FTP all of the files to your local machine and use a program like WinGrep to identify and remove all malicious and anomalous files containing hacker code. 3) Delete the files on your hosting account before uploading the clean files. 4) FTP the clean files back to your hosting account and read and implement the security patches and contributions found in these two threads. Admin Security and Website Security. 5) Change all of your passwords: FTP, CPANEL, STORE ADMIN and DATABASE 6) Make sure File and Directory Permissions are set correctly. Directories no higher than 755, Files no higher than 644 and the TWO configure.php files no higher than 444 7) If your site has been 'black listed' as an attack site by Google, then log into Google Webmaster Tools and submit the site to be re-indexed and verified to be removed from the 'black list' 8) Remove the .htaccess password protection so your customers can resume making purchases from your website. 9) Monitor your website using the newly installed contributions to prevent future hacker attacks. 10) If you feel you can not perform any of the above steps, PM me for help, because if you miss any of these steps your site may remain accessible to the hacker. Chris Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
harlow84 Posted January 25, 2011 Author Share Posted January 25, 2011 thank you so much,ill sit down in a few hours and give it a go. they said they were taking it down so that we can still edit it so fingers crossed i can get it done. Thank you so much. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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