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Steve – I’m not using any RSS feed now but it sure doesn’t hurt to future proof the site. Thanks for the heads up.

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Thanks guys. I’ll look at these also and report back what I choose.
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Thanks Joly I found Exploit Scanner yesterday and installed it but it gave me a lot of results that I didn’t have time to go through at work. After the refresh, I will install and run it – and then I’ll get a baseline for future runs. I have just installed Wordpress Firewall – although […]

Dr. Ron – Thanks for this link. It’s a good post. This sounds like it’s going to be done this weekend – not during the week. A couple of comments and questions if you have any answers. To make sure I understand… this article suggests the hacking is coming from within the Wordpress source files […]

Hi Steve –

I have not contacted them yet. Are you talking about contacting them about 1) my (embarrassingly) missing database password, 2) questions about the hacking, or 3) something completely different ??

Thanks,
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Mystery solved. You’ll laugh (maybe). I certainly appreciate the help. The links widget has 4 options, one of which is “Show Link Description”. Unchecking that box removed the funny character. I happened upon it because I was setting up links on a test site and dragged the widget over to the sidebar and the options […]

@Steve – I haven’t made any changes that I can recall. I can’t give out the URL because it’s password protected at the request of the users. I’ve posted a screen capture of it at http://ealtman.com/page-with-extra-bullets.png @Margarete – Good suggestion – I moved the Links widget to all the other places but I still have the […]

I’ve set up one widget – “Links” – in the Primary widget area. No other widgets set up.

Thanks!
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