Admin home page formatting gone

[kehrli]

I've had a zen cart up for about 5 years now, and today, all of a sudden my admin home page seems to have lost all of it's formatting. I've attached a photo below of what it looks like now.

It looked like it was missing its css files, but I checked the page source and then the css files it was referencing, and they both looked fine.

Anyone seen this before? Or have some idea of where I can look?

[gjh42]

I notice the screenshot says "New Version Available". What version is the shop with the problem? Have you ever upgraded?

[davowave]

you should go and check via ftp to see if any of the files in your admin have been changed recently.

[gjh42]

Correct. It wouldn't benefit a hacker to make your admin look odd, but it could be a side effect of something malicious... that's an important thing to check, anyway.
You might also see if your host has changed anything on your server recently.

[kehrli]

Thanks, guys, for all the replies. I'm a bit embarrassed, but I think this must have been a browser issue of some kind... still to be determined.

Anyway, when I came to work this morning and viewed the site from my work pc, everything looked find again. I did a check of file dates (a good suggestion), and couldn't find anything untoward in the directories I checked, which was about a dozen of the most likely directories I could think of. Certainly the css file dates were not recently changed, nor the index pages or template files that I checked.

But I think this is resolved. I should have thought to clear the cache on the browser on my home pc, but I think that's where the issue was. I've never seen that before. I wonder if my Norton Utilities (which came free with my security suite) has been cleaning up the wrong files in my cache or something...

[gjh42]

Glad the problem went away:) You might want to take this as a wakeup call if you are running older than v1.3.9h, though. There is a patch to improve security in older versions, but it still won't be as safe as the latest.

[kehrli]

Thanks.

I do have 1.3.9h. I'll probably confront the upgrade to 1.5 pretty soon. I just have so darned many mods that I wanted to let them catch up a bit first. Also, I have some customizations of my own that would have to be re-written. It's not really a problem, except for the time...

[RescoCCC]

I did a check of file dates (a good suggestion), and couldn't find anything untoward in the directories I checked

For the future, you might want to install Snapshot from the downloads section. This mod rocks the house! You can check your entire site for file changes in a matter of seconds.

[kehrli]

This looks like a great idea. But it's not open source. I don't like having that class file in there that I can't make heads nor tails of. Who is that guy? What's to stop him from putting back doors into our admins? Isn't this dangerous?

[gjh42]

I expect the admins would have either verified the safety of the code, or know and trust the author, before allowing closed code in Free Addons.