well that's good news. it's never fun to get hacked. a few more tips...
backup your site! if your cpanel has the backup feature use it! back up your aliases, filters, mysqld data base(s) and your entire site download all of the backups (ftp in binary) to your pc. do not rename or try to open! burn to cd then delete the backups off your domain to save space.
it's a good idea to go through all of your email accounts before backing up. delete all spam and files with attachments that are suspect. delete all emails from people you do not know and even those from ppl you do know with suspect subject lines. many of these emails can contain worms and other nasty stuff. you do not want them on your pc and you do not want to reinstall them on your sever if it become necessary to restore from a backup. if after all of this your virus scanner sounds off after scanning after you download look at the scanner's reports. the path to the suspect code will tell you whether it's a false positive warning.if it's in any email box it's a virus or whatever. if it's else where then find out where and investigate. any true virus anywhere on your domain other than the mail boxes can mean you been hacked full frontal or possibly from another account on the server.
if you need to restore then extract your backup off the cd, ftp in binary to your / directory then go to the backup program in cpanel and run the process from there.
keep fresh and frequent backups. if you have 25% of disk space left from your account quota the backup may not work. clean off all files and programs and databases you don't need anymore and ask for more space from your hosting company if you run a backup and use all free space agoracart and other programs that need to write to something will not work. so keep your domain tidy and free of all stuff you don't need. you can download and archive those 40megs of images you're not using anymore...grin. delete the test stores and stores that broke during dev. help to keep the server and your site running at it's peak by not using your site as a archive or a trash bin.
that should keep you going. do back ups! unless you want to start from scratch.
dan
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