I have been using xampp for quite a while now, and last morning I started to get some weird messages when I was developing my website, It happened yesterday and started as something I thought I could handle but apprently I couldn't. These messages were some about timeouts, some were about "can't connect" for my connection string inside my website.

I was thinking that the site might be under attack. as last morning was pretty much like any other morning. I can actually start the admin (the button near the "start/stop" apache) page, but can't login to mysql. I think root was not set, so I tried to use the documentation to reset it.

What happens now is that I just cannot login into MYSQL Server no matter what I do. I keep getting access denied for ''@'localhost' and 'root@localhost' if I try logging as root.

I have been on all the web for help! Please HELP !!

Originally asked by: Ted on Stack Overflow