{"id":2487,"date":"2011-10-11T17:52:04","date_gmt":"2011-10-11T17:52:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bargh.co.uk\/blog\/?p=1376"},"modified":"2011-10-11T17:52:04","modified_gmt":"2011-10-11T17:52:04","slug":"threat-has-been-detected","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bargh.co.uk\/blog\/threat-has-been-detected\/","title":{"rendered":"Threat has been detected!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve just had an incident that I&#8217;ll explain how to get out of if you ever have the same. If you&#8217;re using an anti virus software and you get the message &#8220;threat has been detected&#8221; when you try to access wp-admin it could be that someone has posted a trojan in the comments on the public part of your site. Avast, for example, picks up on this and suggests you don&#8217;t visit admin because of the threat. I went in through an &#8220;edit page&#8221; route and clicked on the activate comment area and got the same &#8220;threat has been detected&#8221; message. So I knew it must be the comment that had the virus.<\/p>\n<p>Comments are stored in the database, so access your wordpress blog database, find the wp-comments table. Look for the comments and find one with suspicious message in the comment_content field and delete it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve just had an incident that I&#8217;ll explain how to get out of if you ever have the same. If you&#8217;re using an anti virus software and you get the message &#8220;threat has been detected&#8221; when you try to access wp-admin it could be that someone has posted a trojan in the comments on the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1296],"tags":[1375,2239,2261],"class_list":["post-2487","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-helping-hand","tag-bastards-hackers","tag-trojan","tag-virus"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bargh.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2487","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bargh.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bargh.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bargh.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bargh.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2487"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bargh.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2487\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bargh.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2487"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bargh.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2487"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bargh.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2487"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}