I have malware on my website. MALWARE.. what should I imagine when it comes to malware? Can you eat malware?<\/p>\n
Malware is mal<\/strong>icious software<\/strong> created by criminals. Malware should not be in your website. Malware can easily enter your website via a leaky plugin, an outdated plugin or WordPress version. Malware “in your website” is actually incorrect. It sometimes shows itself visually in your website when it places links to other websites, but 9\/10x the malware is secretly active on the server.<\/p>\n Your website has the access and rights to have the server execute commands. Once malware is “in your website” and therefore on the server, the malware can issue commands to the server. You now know WHAT malware is, HOW malware gets into your website and what the malware DOES.<\/strong><\/p>\n But now the most important thing,<\/p>\n We are specifically talking about malware in your website<\/strong> here. And more specifically, malware in your WordPress<\/strong> website<\/strong>.<\/p>\n This is a step-by-step plan that you can follow to remove the malware from your WordPress website (and therefore from the server):<\/p>\n Okay your website is now free of malware (we assume).<\/p>\n Secure your website with a security plugin. It is not completely foolproof, but it does stop 90% of all automated malware.<\/p>\n Do you not know how to set up a good security<\/a>, or have you failed to get your get website malware-free<\/a>?<\/p>\n Please contact us, we do this work 7 days a week. We offer affordable solutions with warranty!<\/p>\n
\nMalware comes in all forms:\u00a0viruses, trojan horses, rootkits, spyware, dialers, botnets, malicious websites, tracking cookies and more.<\/p>\nHow malware gets into your website<\/h2>\n
\nMalware is not human-driven, so it grabs every website it can find on Google. Also your hobby site or your small business website.<\/p>\nWhat does malware do?<\/h2>\n
\nThose commands from malware vary:<\/p>\n\n
How do I get rid of malware?<\/h2>\n
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\n<\/b>You can see this from the modification date of files on the server, if that is not clear you can use your own insight.<\/li>\n
\n<\/b>You may be able to restore a backup from when your website was malware-free.
\nSome web hosts store backups of your website<\/a>, sometimes 1 week but sometimes also 1-2-3 months.
\nKeep in mind that a backup is a step back in time, so news items, users, woocommerce purchases and the like are NOT up-to-date with the old backup. Therefore, make a backup of this moment before you restore 1.<\/li>\n
\n<\/strong>\u2013 Check which files are on the server, whether they belong there.
\n\u2013 Check which users have administrative rights and whether this is correct.
\n\u2013 Remove backdoors, a backdoor is also malware, but then 1 that specifically keeps the door open to your server to allow more malware in.
\nBackdoors are regularly installed, even before a hack actually becomes visible. That backdoor is literally an open door for the malware to be able to execute the injection and commands again.<\/li>\n
\nMake sure everything is up to date.
\nTIP: We often completely replace the plugins and WordPress completely on the server for new downloads, so you can be sure that there are no unwanted malware or lines of code on the server.<\/li>\n
\n<\/strong>In Google’s webmaster tools, go to the security center and see if the website is not known as hacked\/infected with malware there.<\/li>\n
\nScan your website with the Sucuri Malware Scanner<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ol>\nHow do you prevent malware from entering your website?<\/h2>\n