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Friday the 13th, a bad-luck message JS/redir.BS for a wordpress website

JS/redir.BS is a malaware that silently is stored in your website and will cause something ugly to happen: lose access to it. There is no simple way to know when it got there, but several places can give you a clue on how to get rid of it. Important advice: take care of your website security, create backups and change passwords every now and then! Wordpress is a strong tool, but not invensible. As I know how to control my computer and get rid of malaware, I decided to create a simluation in my computer, that was risky, but the fastest way to do it instead of waiting for the hosting company to help me. I did a clean installation of Wordpress last version, the one I use in my website. As I was suspicious of the theme, that was the first thing I copied from the server to my laptop. When I tried to move the theme folder to my local Wordpress installation, there it was. My Antivirus poped-up and blocked the virus, luckily it was just in the header file. If you still can access to wp-