[wp-hackers] Advice on possible malware affecting multiple sites on same server

[Patty Ayers]

On Fri, Jul 26, 2013 at 5:47 PM, Mark Costlow <cheeks at swcp.com> wrote:

> On Fri, Jul 26, 2013 at 04:38:51PM -0500, Otto wrote:
> > On Fri, Jul 26, 2013 at 1:39 PM, Patty Ayers <patty at ayersvirtual.com>
> wrote:
> > > Hm, really, ok. I can certainly do that. Might be a problem for my
> clients
> > > at times, but then again, nobody's using GIFs all that much anyway.
> > >
> > > So that would be caused by settings on the server, sounds like.
> >
> > Yes and no... it's caused by the particular version of GD running on
> > the machine and the support it has for various images. GD is an older
> > image library.
> >
> > WordPress 3.6 will support an alternate library called "ImageMagick",
> > if your server has that installed and enabled. However, you may not
> > have that and thus won't see any change if not.
>
> You might check to see the admin of that server did an update.  If
> PHP got recompiled it may have been done with different configuration
> flags or a different set of libraries.
>
> Mark
>

Ah, ok. I'm waiting to hear back (from HostGator..) - if they say they have
no clue, I'll raise that question. Thanks, Mark.

Patty