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Hacked WordPress Blog Clean Up

WordPress blogs can be hacked due to outdated WordPress installations, outdated plugins, and, increasingly, malware. When a WordPress blog is hacked, the hack is used to insert malicious code that performs one or more harmful activities. Hacks can have a serious impact on the traffic that the blog receives. A hack that distributes malware can cause the blog to become inaccessible to many visitors and a hack that inserts spam can cause the blog's search rankings to drop or cause the blog to be removed from Google's search engine. If your WordPress blog has been hacked we can clean it up for you and work with you to insure that it does not get hacked again.

Some of the most prevalent activities preformed by the malicious code are inserting hidden spam links in the blog's header or footer, creating spam pages, redirecting visitors to another website, and attempting to install malware on the computers of visitors to the blog. When a WordPress blog is hacked, the inserted code may perform one or several different activities. When the hack inserts hidden spam links or creates spam pages, your search rankings can drop significantly and Google may remove it from their search engine's index if they detect hidden text or cloaking. When the hack inserts code that attempts to infect the computers of visitors to the blog with a virus, trojan horse, drive-by download, or other type of malware (malicious software), not only could your visitor's computers become infected but your blog may also become inaccessible to visitors. The blog may be flagged and blocked by the Internet Explorer ("This website has been reported as unsafe"), Firefox ("Reported Attack Site!"), Safari ("Warning: Visiting this site may harm your computer"), Chrome ("Warning: Visiting this site may harm your computer!"), and Opera ("Fraud Warning") web browsers. It may also be flagged and blocked in the Google ("This site may harm your computer."), Yahoo ("Warning: Dangerous Downloads"), and or Bing search engines as well as Google's AdWords advertising service and Twitter ("unsafe link").

The hacks can be hidden in a variety of places and might only be active when the blog is visited in a particular way. The hacks may be located in WordPress files, plugins, templates, or the database. The most common form of malware infection is an iframe hack, which places an iframe or JavaScript code that creates an iframe into the website's pages. When the code inserts hidden spam links, these links may only be in the page if the request comes from a crawler for a search engine. When the code redirects a visitor or attempts to infect a visitor's computer with malware, the attempt may only occur if a visitor comes to the blog through a search engine. When coming to the blog directly, it will appear to be normal. If you are not sure if your blog has been hacked, please feel free to contact us to confirm whether it is hacked.

To clean up the blog, we will review the blog's files and database for code inserted during the hack and remove that code. If the blog is running on an old version of WordPress, the current version is 2.9.1, we will upgrade the blog to the latest version of WordPress following proper upgrade procedures. Also, if any plugins are out of date we will update them. Checking and cleaning the blog's files takes a few hours. We will also work with you to insure that the blog is not hacked again. If your blog has been removed from the Google search engine we will assist you in filing a reconsideration request. If your blog was distributing malware and has been flagged and blocked, we will assist you in getting the flag removed by requesting a malware review from Google, Yahoo, and or Bing. It should take no more than a day to be removed from Google's malware blacklist after a review has been requested.


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250.00 USD for a WordPress blog and 300.00 USD for a WordPress MU installation. We accept payment by credit card, debit card, or eCheck through PayPal in a number of currencies.


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