It might sound cliche to say, but I am going to say it anyways.  Make sure you keep your passwords complicated, long and different for each service you belong to, script you have installed or account you have created.  When your web site’s security has been breached, passwords are another place you should check and update to lock out anybody who should not have access to your web site files.

Which Log-ins Should I Check and Change?

Here are some of the related log-ins you need to check and change, if you have found your web site has been infected by a virus, a trojan, or any other web site security issue there is out there.

Hosting Account Passwords – First, update your hosting account password, and the passwords for any e-mail accounts or FTP accounts you have created in your web hosting account.

Installed Scripts Passwords – You also need to make a list of every script you have installed and you are using on your hosting account.  Update your passwords for each of these scripts you are using.

Customer Service Passwords – The last series of passwords you need to change are those that have to do with your customer service level support with your web host.  If you use a different series of log-ins to get into your account settings with your web host, you may also need to update those log-ins too.

The important thing to remember is you want to lock out any way a person could gain access to your web site files and settings.  Think of this as going through your house and changing all the locks, after you have had a burglar break in.