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Hacked Joomla Website Clean Up

Joomla websites can be hacked due to outdated Joomla installations, outdated extensions, and, increasingly, malware. When a Joomla website 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 website receives. A hack that distributes malware can cause the website to become inaccessible to many visitors and a hack that inserts spam can cause the website's search rankings to drop or cause the website to be removed from Google's search engine. If your Joomla website 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 website's pages, creating spam pages, redirecting visitors to another website, and attempting to install malware on the computers of visitors to the website. When a Joomla website 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 website 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 website may also become inaccessible to visitors. The website may be flagged and blocked in 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 website is visited in a particular way. The hacks may be located in Joomla files, extensions, 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 website through a search engine. When coming to the website directly, it will appear to be normal. If you are not sure if your website has been hacked, please feel free to contact us to confirm whether it is hacked.

To clean up the website, we will review the website's files and database for code inserted during the hack and remove that code. If the website is running on an old version of Joomla, the current versions 1.5.15, we will upgrade the website to the latest version of Joomla following proper upgrade procedures. Also, if any extensions are out of date we will update them. Checking and cleaning the website's files takes a few hours. We will also work with you to insure that the website is not hacked again. If your website has been removed from the Google search engine we will assist you in filing a reconsideration request. If your website 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.


Price:

250.00 USD for a website running Joomla 1.5.x and 350.00 USD if the website needs to be upgraded from Joomla 1.0.x. Payment is due after the website has been cleaned up and we accept payment by credit card, debit card, eCheck, or PayPal in a number of currencies.


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