WordPress Malware Removal & Cleanup
Cleaning malware is the easy half. Finding how it got in is the half that stops you paying for this twice — a site cleaned but not hardened is usually reinfected within weeks.
Price confirmed after a quick look, before any work starts. If your case is more involved, you get a revised quote to approve — never a surprise invoice.
- Typical turnaround
- Within 24 hours
- Guarantee
- 14 days
- Fixed-price quote first
- Root-cause fix, not a band-aid
- 14-day correction guarantee
Symptoms I see with this.
If any of these describe what you're looking at, this is the right fix. If you're not sure, describe it and I'll point you at the right one.
- Visitors redirected to unrelated or adult sites
- Google showing a 'this site may be hacked' warning
- Spam pages or Japanese keywords appearing in search results
- Unfamiliar admin users, or files you did not upload
- Host suspended the account for sending spam
What usually causes it.
In roughly the order I check them. Knowing the likely causes is what makes a fix fast rather than exploratory.
Vulnerable or abandoned plugin
The overwhelming majority of WordPress compromises. A plugin with a known vulnerability that had a patch available months ago, or one that has not been updated in years and never will be.
Compromised credentials
A reused admin password, or FTP/hosting credentials taken from an infected local machine. No amount of site hardening helps if the password is already known.
PHP executing in the uploads folder
An upload exploit becomes a full compromise only if the uploaded file can run. Blocking PHP execution in uploads is the single highest-value hardening step.
A compromised neighbour on shared hosting
Weak account isolation means another site's compromise becomes yours. If the audit shows this, moving hosts is sometimes the honest recommendation.
What the job includes.
- Snapshot of the infected state before any changes
- Full file and database scan — not just what a scanner plugin flags
- Backdoors, rogue admin users and malicious cron entries removed
- Root cause identified and closed
- Credential rotation guidance
- Google blacklist re-review request filed
- Written incident report
- 14-day correction guarantee
Questions, answered.
Will I lose content?
Almost never. Cleaning removes injected code, not your posts and pages. Where malicious content was published as posts, those are removed and listed in the report.
Why did my site get reinfected after the last cleanup?
Almost certainly a missed backdoor or an unclosed entry point. Attackers plant multiple ways back in, so cleaning the visible symptom is not enough. Root cause is a mandatory part of this job.
How fast can the Google warning be removed?
Once the site is genuinely clean I file the re-review immediately, and it typically clears within a day or two. That timing is Google's, not mine.
Other WordPress fixes.
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Front-end or wp-admin showing a blank white page? I trace the fatal error and restore it.
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Defaced, spam pages, rogue admins, or sending spam? Full recovery and lockdown.
From $129Error Establishing a Database Connection Fix
That dreaded database connection error? I find why WordPress can't reach its DB and fix it.
From $39WordPress Login / Admin Access Fix
Locked out of wp-admin, redirect loops, or lost password? I restore secure access.
From $39Let's get it fixed.
Send the symptoms, when it started, and what changed just before. You'll get a straight answer and a fixed price — usually the same day.
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