OK - As a final update ......
Everything moved - as I'm in the UK I chose Vidahost and they were brilliant ....
They assured me that no one on the server would be on anything before 5.3 and did seem quite clued up on the security issues older versions could cause.
Response times are...
I didn't ask ....
I'm on with getting it restored :)
It seems this group target USA hosts .... my bigger issue is how they got in to the forum to replace the index file
Hi
Just had the forum hacked by the people mentioned here http://www.simplemachines.org/community/index.php?topic=352040.0
I found they had somehow replaced the forum index.php file ... so I had a copy of that and replaced it but I'm getting the following errors
Any help appreciated