TROJAN found on my site

[Grebogreen]

I've had my site suspended at present as my hosting provider has found a trojan "my_photos.exe"
I know for sure I have not intensionaly uploaded it. Is there anyway it could have been uploaded through a php file? What is the most likely way this trojan has got there?

[Eric Barnes]

There could be all sorts of ways. It could be through a php script, by someone gaining access through ftp, a security hole, etc, etc.

Are you running anything besides 68 Classifieds?

[Grebogreen]

The only other thing on site is "myadserver". Whats the best way to protect from this happening again as I don't even know how it got there.

[Lhotch]

Originally Posted by Grebogreen

Whats the best way to protect from this happening again as I don't even know how it got there.

Thats not something that can really be answered here. There are people whose sole responsibility it is to secure systems and its a career for them so explaining it on a forum isnt practical or realistic.

On a side note, there is a new virus going around called kraken, pretty mean from what I hear but like most it usually is passed off as an attachement to e-mail and makes people think its an image and before ya know it they click it.

Do you have any e-mail addresses on your server? Perhaps it was attached to an e-mail and sent to you and that triggered them to shut you down. Id talk to you host to see where they found the file because that will at least give you some idea of how it may have gotten on your site.