Strange symbols appear on my site
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Hawkster
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This possibly is the cause https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/ne...h-malware-via-new-font-wasnt-found-technique/
voica
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I will try to see what happens
thanks
Zwielicht
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Were you by any chance getting a 503 error before you saw those symbols?
I was speaking with a prospect late last week when the exact same thing happened to his site.
It would go from a 503 error (maintenance was being done on the server by the host) to those symbols. It took their web host about an hour to fix it.
voica
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Were you by any chance getting a 503 error before you saw those symbols?
I was speaking with a prospect late last week when the exact same thing happened to his site.
It would go from a 503 error (maintenance was being done on the server by the host) to those symbols. It took their web host about an hour to fix it.
No 503 error but it looks just like that picture. I tried to edit wp-config like somebody above told me but instead of ('DB_CHARSET', 'utf8'); I have ('DB_CHARSET', 'utf8mb4'); I think that is the problem.
Zwielicht
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That's strange. Let us know if editing the wp-config files works for you.
voica
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After I edited wp-config the page appeared normal but with � between some words and when I tried to edit the posts to delete them there was no post in my wp dashboard. I changed everything back to default and it looks like its working fine LOL. I hope it stays like that.