Random Access Memories

For those of you unaware earlier my website looked like this:

The reason for this was an exploit that a spambot used in the TinyMCE editor on my site. (Which has since been fixed).

But what is more interesting is what it did. It wrote a huge string to every single php file in my website.

Getting it out proved a royal pain in the butt, but I finally came up with the following command (Had to do it twice because the string was so long).

perl -p -i -e ‘s/oldstring/newstring/g’ $(find . -name \*.php)

If you use this remember to use \ before any characters that aren’t numbers or letters, and use \x27 for the ‘ character.