So I had a gallery (currently taken down) on 1.4.25 with register globals turned off and for some odd reason the PHP files got infected with this sinister code:
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The only mod I used was the captcha one. I tried many things, upgrading from 1.4.34 (wiping the whole code first, where only albums remain) and realising that the host had register globals on by default.
I'm tired of cleaning the site with global search and replace, re-installing and having the incident happen again after a week or two. Maybe 1.5 will be better
There is no link because the gallery is dead.