WorldPress Site got lots of spam links [closed]

Question

Recently my wordpress website has got a lot of spam links. Google has indexed a lot of spam links from my website. The links are like:

http://example.com/viagra-buy.html

I found out that my .htaccess file had been modified and the and a php file with base64 code was added to my server. I want to know how I can remove the spam links from the Google. I'm afraid Google will mark my website as spam. Also how can I prevent this attack in future? Please help.

Answer 1

First thing you need to do is clean up your site. It's infected and it needs to be disinfected. After you do that, you need to change your passwords.

Here's some information on how to do that: http://blog.sucuri.net/2011/02/cleaning-up-an-infected-web-site-part-i-wordpress-and-the-pharma-hack.html

Your web host may even already have tools in place to clean up the site, so you can check with them.

After it's all cleaned up:

1. Make sure no posts or pages were maliciously added (this usually isn't the case.)
2. Search for something like "[your host name] wordpress hacked" and see if it's a chronic problem with your host. There's a couple hosts out there that aren't configured correctly for WP and the WP sites get hacked no matter what you do.
3. Keep WordPress updated, all the time.
4. Try setting up some or all of the typical WordPress hardening measures http://codex.wordpress.org/Hardening_WordPress
5. Use a security monitoring service like http://www.wordfence.com/