{"id":4403,"date":"2019-02-04T14:44:14","date_gmt":"2019-02-04T21:44:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.whitefirdesign.com\/blog\/?p=4403"},"modified":"2019-02-04T14:44:14","modified_gmt":"2019-02-04T21:44:14","slug":"paying-a-lower-yearly-fee-for-an-ongoing-website-security-service-when-you-have-a-hacked-website-is-not-a-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.whitefirdesign.com\/blog\/2019\/02\/04\/paying-a-lower-yearly-fee-for-an-ongoing-website-security-service-when-you-have-a-hacked-website-is-not-a-deal\/","title":{"rendered":"Paying a Lower Yearly Fee for an Ongoing Website Security Service When You Have a Hacked Website is Not a Deal"},"content":{"rendered":"

When people have had their website hacked the unfortunate reality is that there are lot of people out there looking to take advantage of them. A lot of that involves telling people what they want to hear while knowing that you are lying to them. Based on what people say when contacting us, what a lot of people with hacked websites are looking for is a service that will protect their website from being hacked again. The reality we tell them is that while there are plenty of services that claim to do that, they don’t work (as an example of that, we often have people coming to us asking if we offer a service like that that works after using one that didn’t prevent their website from being hacked) and in fact the providers of them don’t even present any evidence that even tries to support that they do. The additional reality is that the companies behind these services usually don’t even try to do the work that could possibly make them work.<\/p>\n

That last element is in some ways the most important when it comes to someone that already has a hacked website, since part of the work that these service don’t do to try to protect website also is important part of cleaning up a hacked website. Just last Friday we mentioned an example of that with a company named Sucuri, which had press coverage for something that wasn’t meaningful when the real story should have been that they were publicly admitting cutting corners with hack cleanups by not even trying to determine how the website got hacked<\/a>. If you don’t know how websites are being hacked, you are going to have a hard time even trying to protect them. That they admitted to that isn’t really surprising to us because we have been dealing with the after effects of their improper clean ups and their failure to protect website from being hacked in the first place<\/a>\u00a0for years.<\/p>\n

Recently we had someone contact us while looking for a better deal for a website service after their web host GoDaddy was trying to sell them on a $299 a year subscription for a service provided Sucuri, which GoDaddy owns, after they claimed their website was hacked. Paying less for a service that won’t properly deal with a hack, isn’t a better deal, since at any price it isn’t going to properly resolve the situation. Instead, if your website is hacked what needs to be done is to get it properly cleaned up.\u00a0Properly cleaning up a hacked website involves three key components:<\/p>\n