One of my joomla webpages has been hacked. Please help.

[Chris Angelico]

On Sun, Sep 23, 2012 at 3:18 PM, Dwight Hutto <dwightdhutto at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sun, Sep 23, 2012 at 12:56 AM, Chris Angelico <rosuav at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Steven's point is not that we, human beings (or parahuman beings, as
>> the case may be), do not know how to run code in Joomla; I've worked
>> with it, and know something about it, and my day job involves some PHP
>> programming, so there's a reasonable chance that I could help him.
>
> Then a referral, is what he needs, and what you need is to tell others
> you're a cross languaged programmer.

Okay. I hereby inform you all that I am polyglot. I know many
languages. But really, who here _isn't_? Is there anyone on this list
who has absolutely no skills outside of Python? I rather doubt it.

>> (If I cared to. I don't have very much sympathy for security holes in old
>> versions of big frameworks.)
>
> SYmpathy, how about empathy, to show your designs can have bugs, which
> is why they have version.
>
> Then refer him to the joomla security hole mailing list

How about: Google is your friend? I'm sure that a Joomla security hole
mailing list can easily be found at the opposite end of a web search.

> We're the borg. We have google to help, or another mailing list with data.

He has Google to help, and he can access other mailing lists. Anyone
who wants to admin a web site ought to be able to find appropriate
places to ask questions. There's a reasonable level of courtesy and
assistance offered, but eventually, it's time to just say "This is off
topic" and not try to assist.

ChrisA