nasty WP virus

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hello – i have a virus that quttera, md5-checksum, integrity-checker, etc cannot seem to locate.

i am considering doing the following:

1. logging in as ‘root’
2. moving the WP files: index.php, wp-settings.php, etc to the root home directory
3. chown root:root /root/*.php; ## change owner of php files to root
4. chmod 555 /root/*.php; removing write access for everybody
5. creating symbolic links in the WP directory to these php files now under root control: ln -s /root/index.php;

that way, if some rogue program tries to change them, it will trigger a more serious error.

any thoughts?

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