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[Hilary Cheyne Friend Hilary CheyneJoin date: September 2014Posts: 19Downloads:0Uploads:0 Thanks: 3 Thanked: 3 times in 2 posts]

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The only person I know who was hacked as you describe (with version less than 1.5.6) also had a file added to the root named something like sex.php so do check that as well…

[toddah Friend toddahJoin date: March 2008Posts: 13Downloads:0Uploads:0 Thanks: 2 Thanked: 1 times in 1 posts]

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<em>@hanifahmed 75027 wrote:</em><blockquote>You could go in to MyPHPAdmin and go to jos_users and change the password in there.
I did that when one of my sites got hacked and closed down, brought it back up to where it was in minutes.</blockquote>
How do you change the password in phpmyadmin. It looks like all the passwords in my jos_users table are encrypted? If I manually change it in the table, won’t it be expecting encryted text?

[Hilary Cheyne Friend Hilary CheyneJoin date: September 2014Posts: 19Downloads:0Uploads:0 Thanks: 3 Thanked: 3 times in 2 posts]

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http://community.contractwebdevelopment.com/joomla-how-reset-super-admin-password

addendum to my earlier post – the sex.php file was in the images folder…

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