Problem is there is no telling if the issue was in the backup or not.

True, True - The infection date would have to be known. Usually, the service is not cheap either since they have to parse the backup image.:)

I still would like to know what allowed them in, probably the install folder was still there sounds like.

True, True - The infection date would have to be known. If backups are not included in your service package, it can get quite pricey: as they usually have to parse the backup image. :)

well, to a degree, its good I have very few actual members, most joined when the forum started, so anyone with user ID past 10 needs to go, I need to find out a way to delete ALL blogs and ALL members, Ill just make the few original members back .
wondering if it might be easier to use a new database.

no backups, hostgator only archives 1 wwek orso I was told. the forum was left alone for a long time as we had many other things to deal with and just noticed this mess.

going to the blogs section is a mess
http://www.patraditionalbowhunters.com/blog.php

no user names attached to blogs, my permissions should not allow this.

seems we got hacked right around SEPT of last year, no one noticed as we were not active for a long time.


still getting errors tryong to delete some users using the "prune" function

Deleting User VerlaQQJB
Fatal error: Call to a member function query_read() on a non-object in /home1/***/public_html/includes/class_dm_blog_user.php on line 218