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[mirzamunas Friend mirzamunasJoin date: April 2008Posts: 55Downloads:15Uploads:1 Thanks: 10 Thanked: 4 times in 1 posts]

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The website that I was voluntarily creating and maintaining for my alma mater was hacked in August 2008. I couldn’t log in through the admin and I had to rename the index page to avoid the hackers home page. Please if someone could help me to get it back online would be a great help. I did alot of work on it and I updated the site. If I go on to build a new one I will lose all those work and news that I updated. Please if someone could help. I used Teline.

[sunrise Friend sunriseJoin date: February 2007Posts: 920Downloads:0Uploads:5 Thanks: 103 Thanked: 166 times in 114 posts]

#288641

Hi mirzamunas,
Sorry to hear this. I think anyone who would try to help with this would need a bit more information. But I was wondering if you had some kind of backup, whether you did it or the hosting company.

[mihirc Friend mihircJoin date: December 2008Posts: 597Downloads:0Uploads:3 Thanks: 62 Thanked: 95 times in 39 posts]

#288649

hello,

the best thing would be to access the phpmyadmin and reset your password to access all the files again. Here is a link that will guide you, about what you have to do, to get the site back.

As a thumbrule, never keep your sites permissions to 777, keep it 755. If all the site modifications are done, you might as well change it to 644.

Between here’s the link – >
http://www.joomlaspan.com/general/recover-super-administrator-status-of-joomla.php

Regards,
Mihir Chhatre.

[mirzamunas Friend mirzamunasJoin date: April 2008Posts: 55Downloads:15Uploads:1 Thanks: 10 Thanked: 4 times in 1 posts]

#288650

Well, I didn’t get any backups as it was a work in progress but I had lots of news and events updated on the site… but my problem is that I couldn’t get through admin ……… in some forums they speak about a super admin .. where with super admin you can change the password of admin… but I couldn’t find how to get about to do it… in some forum they say to update with the security patch to get it fixed.. but I don’t think that will work as I couldn’t get through the admin ……… I put lot of heart and soul into the work as its something that I did for my alma mater and it had nothing to do with money…

[mirzamunas Friend mirzamunasJoin date: April 2008Posts: 55Downloads:15Uploads:1 Thanks: 10 Thanked: 4 times in 1 posts]

#288878

Sorry this didn’t help….. as in the phpMyAdmin already the jos_plugins table the User – Joomla states as 1 and not as a 0.

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