title: Wordpress Site Hacked generating a huge error_log file
body: <p>I noticed that my one of my websites got hacked today and am in the process of cleaning it all up. I backed up the theme, database, and deleted all the files off the server but now I am having a major problem.</p>
  
  <p>Since those files are no longer available the websites trying to pull a file off of my website are generating an error to my log file over and over and over causing it to fill my disk space quota up in a matter of minutes. Where do I start with fixing this type of problem? I tried blocking the offending ip address in the htacces file but it doesn't seem to be working the way I intended. </p>
  
  <pre><code>[Mon Oct 13 13:24:13 2014] [error] [client 178.151.4.236] File does not exist: /home/youngsco/public_html/index.php, referer: http://www.cardozo.us/
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