Malware Discovered in Client’s Website

A long-time friend called me and told me his website was running very slowly and asked if I would take a look at it.

I quickly discovered malware.  His .htaccess file contained a bit of code that under certain conditions would redirect the visitor to a file named khalil-fungal.php.  The contents of the file were Base64-encoded, a usual tactic of hackers and malware.

Removing that file and cleaning up his .htaccess file solved the problem.