Thanks all. In order then (ladies first of course!): thanks Jess; it was a tough week but after about six attempts I managed it. Every time I asked Google to check they came back with a DIFFERENT set of files that had been hacked. I'd delete those files, go "how about now?" and they'd come back with another set. Eventually I thought to hell with this, and just deleted every single HTML file. It upset me to do it, as I had been keeping a decent, very old website running, with one of my favourite subjects, mythology, one of the sections in it, but who knows if anyone was even reading it or knew it existed? Once the HTML files were gone, I reuploaded only images and finally got the all-clear. Thanks for your support through a difficult time.
Neap: I assume that now that trollheart.com is sorted there will be no comeback on the other journal, though I don't maintain it any more --- this is the only place for me! The problem was with my domain, and that then filtered through to my journal and anywhere else I used links to it, so at the time I would have said yes it would have been the same there. Typically, the silence from that quarter was deafening!
Stephen: Thanks for the suggestion. Postimage and the like look after the passwords as was mentioned, so whereas on my own site I was responsible for ensuring no unauthorised access, with the image hosting sites if it were to happen (and I'm not saying it wouldn't; where is safe these days?) I would assume the hoster would look after sorting it out. Hosting images here is a good idea, but I don't know where I'd do that or how much space is available. At the moment, trollheart.com seems to be working fine again.
Thanks again for all your help and hope it didn't inconvenience any of you too much.
TH
(With a clean bill of health!)