WordPress Malware Removal

WordPress Malware Removal

Website malware removal is important because malware can seriously damage your site, your reputation, and your visitors. Here are the key reasons why it’s critical:

Protects Visitors: Malware can harm users by stealing their data, redirecting them to malicious sites, or installing harmful software on their devices.
Preserves SEO and Rankings: Search engines like Google, will blacklist infected sites, removing them from search results and warning users, which will drastically reduce traffic to an infected site.
Maintains Reputation and Trust: A compromised site undermines customer trust. Visitors may avoid returning if they experience issues or receive security warnings.
Prevents Legal and Financial Consequences: If user data is stolen, you could face legal penalties, fines (especially under regulations like GDPR), and the cost of remediation.
Stops Further Infection: Malware often spreads across a website’s files, databases, and even to other websites on the same server. Quick removal stops the spread.
Ensures Functionality: Malware can break site features, deface pages, or crash the site entirely, hurting business operations.

The Procedure:

  1. Malware, Virus Scanning
    Scan website files, databases, and code for malicious content such as:
    • Redirects to spam or phishing sites
    • Backdoors (unauthorized access points)
    • Hidden iframes or JavaScript injections
    • Malicious plugins or themes
    • Detects SEO spam, defacements, and injected links
  2. Malware, Virus Removal
    • Clean infected files and scripts
    • Remove malicious code from HTML, PHP, JavaScript, and other files
    • Restores original functionality while keeping your content safe
  3. Security Hardening
    The full list of hardening requirements can be long. Some recommend fixes must include;
    • Software updates (e.g., WordPress, plugins, core updates) to latest versions.
    • Weak passwords
    • Unsafe file permissions
    • Outdated CMS components
  4. Blacklist Removal
    • If the site is blacklisted by Google, Norton, McAfee, etc., the service:
    • Fixes for the underlying issue
    • Submit a reconsideration request to have the site reviewed and unblocked
  5. Full Report and Recommendations for Ongoing Monitoring & Protection

Available Packages

Standard/ static sites (i.e., tradies, professionals, etc.).

STANDARD BUSINESS WEBSITES

$500   $360 +gst (One time fee)

Large websites, online shops, booking sites, etc.

LARGE SITES, ECOMMERCE, ETC.

$750  $490+gst (One time fee)

*NB: Post removal; if hardening recommendations are not followed, the likelihood of future attacks on your site has a high probability. There are up to 5.5 billion malware attacks and 6.3 trillion intrusion attempts on websites globally each year.
The above removal service is exclusive to WordPress websites only. We can also simply remove the malware if you don’t want the website software upgrades to be included. To keep your website secure and up-to-date, you may also subscribe to one of our Monthly Maintenance Plans.