I am not sure what you mean by advertisements. Could you please provide a bit more detail. Does it include details about the courses or is it advertisements by a third party?
If it is information about the course you would need to go into the course and remove the information contained in Course Name > Administration Menu > Settings > General > Summary. This will stop the information showing on the front page.
I am having problems with links (LOTS of links) to ads for things like Viagra and other not so school friendly products showing up at the bottom of my main page (1st after login page). We had this problem a few months ago and solved it by changing our config.php file back to original (rather than hacker changed) version. However, that file is fine and the problem is back. We are running 1.8.6 on a windows server with MYSQL. Can anyone help me figure out how to fix this quickly?
Hi Linda,
Reverting the infected file back to a clean copy will rarely fix the problem - whatever exploit was used to access the files will still need fixing.
Moodle docs has a page that is worth reading: Hacked site recovery - there are some general tips there, including preventative measures you can take.
Reverting the infected file back to a clean copy will rarely fix the problem - whatever exploit was used to access the files will still need fixing.
Moodle docs has a page that is worth reading: Hacked site recovery - there are some general tips there, including preventative measures you can take.
Hi Linda, Paul is right on, any fix you do is likely a temporary one until the hack is triggered again.
My site administrator had this issue in a never updated 1.5.3 last year. The site admin spent lots of time undoing "our ru friend's" work every month or so, with a higher authority giving us reminders that we could not have hidden viagra links on our pages. As I recall, anywhere from 30 to hundreds of links in the header of every page, which linked to another poorly secured moodlesite in China that had ads and more links. Not pretty. Now we are 1.9.7, problem solved for now.
From my perspective, the good news is that "our friend" caused us update!
Sympathies and good luck,
Chris
My site administrator had this issue in a never updated 1.5.3 last year. The site admin spent lots of time undoing "our ru friend's" work every month or so, with a higher authority giving us reminders that we could not have hidden viagra links on our pages. As I recall, anywhere from 30 to hundreds of links in the header of every page, which linked to another poorly secured moodlesite in China that had ads and more links. Not pretty. Now we are 1.9.7, problem solved for now.
From my perspective, the good news is that "our friend" caused us update!
Sympathies and good luck,
Chris