Host your WordPress blog at GoDaddy? Maybe you’ve been hacked

Looks like there has been another attack on GoDaddy hosted WordPress blogs just this weekend.

According to BlogcastFM, the “hack appears to redirect visitors upon arrival from Google and attempts to install malware on their computers.” Sid gives you advice on how to recognize and fix the hack at Warning! Massive Number of Godaddy WordPress Blogs Hacked This Weekend.

How to get rid of malware on your PC

This explains why my desktop PC and netbook were infected with the myblindstudioinfoonline.com malware this weekend. Every time I opened up my browser (both IE and Firefox), a fake Windows-style page would show up telling me I had a virus and needed to download a program.

I knew it was a scam and didn’t download the program, but the malware made it nearly impossible to close down the page tab. After many tries, I had to shut down my browser completely. Somehow it stopped infecting Firefox, but kept goofing up Internet Explorer. A friend told me to download MalwareBytes (free!) since running AVG alone didn’t remove the malware, though it did issue a warning several times.

WPSecurityLock.com gives some great advice on how to deal with the malware infection and how to fix your WordPress site at WordPress hacked with myblindstudioinfoonline malware on Godaddy. You should also check out their post, Update: GoDaddy Resolves myblindstudioinfoonline Malware Hacked Websites.

Should you host your WordPress blog at GoDaddy?

This is not the first time GoDaddy hosted WordPress blogs have been hacked. They tend to blame customers for not keeping their WP versions up to date.

Still, people have been less than happy with the amount of customer service they’ve received when a hack has occurred. Many bloggers have switched hosting, like Home to Heather did last May when she blogged about how she fixed her WordPress blog with a simple Hostgator Transfer.

More on hacked WordPress blogs at GoDaddy

• Godaddy wordpress blog hacked, a discussion at WordPress.org forums
• GoDaddy sites hacked again at BlogTips
• GoDaddy Websites Hacked Again With MalWare Virus from MomsWorld.org
• GoDaddy sites hacked – myblindstudioinfoonline.com and Hilary Kneber at Sucuri.net

Anne-Marie Nichols is the Managing Editor of Mom Central Blogger University. You can also find her blogging up some healthy recipes at This Mama Cooks!

Anne-Marie Nichols