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WordPress Malware Removal That Finds the Backdoor

Removing visible malware is the easy half. The half that decides whether you are back here next month is finding what the attacker left behind so they can return — the extra administrator account, the scheduled task that re-downloads the payload, the single line injected into a theme file nobody reads.

We clean the infection, hunt the persistence mechanisms, patch the vulnerability that allowed it, and handle the Google review if your site has been flagged. Fixed price, quoted after diagnosis.

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Worth knowing: If a site has been cleaned before and reinfected, the cleanup missed a backdoor — that is essentially always the explanation. Reinfection is not bad luck and it does not mean you were targeted twice; it means the door was left open the first time.

What we fix

Full infection scan

Core, themes, plugins, uploads, and database compared against known-clean references. Injected content hides in the database as often as in files.

Backdoor hunting

Unknown admin accounts, malicious scheduled tasks, modified .htaccess, injected functions.php code, and PHP files hiding in the uploads directory.

Entry point identified

We work out which vulnerability was used and patch it. Without this step the cleanup is temporary and you already know how that ends.

SEO spam cleanup

Injected pharmaceutical or casino links, cloaked pages served only to Googlebot, and spam pages in your sitemap — the damage that outlasts the malware itself.

Blacklist review submitted

If Google, McAfee, or a browser vendor flagged you, we submit for review and confirm removal so visitors stop seeing warnings.

Hardened afterwards

File-integrity monitoring, login hardening, and the updates that should have been running. Removal without hardening is a rental, not a fix.

Questions people actually ask

How long does malware removal take?

Most cleanups finish within 24 hours of starting. Sites infected for months, or several sites sharing one compromised server, take longer — cross-infection between sites on the same hosting account is common and all of them have to be cleaned together or they simply reinfect each other.

Will you find the backdoor?

That is the part we treat as the actual job. Visible malware is straightforward; persistence mechanisms are what require care. If a site has been cleaned before and came back, a missed backdoor is essentially always why.

My site was cleaned before and got reinfected — why?

Either the backdoor was missed or the original vulnerability was never patched. A cleanup that removes the symptoms without doing both is guaranteed to fail; the only question is how long it takes.

Do you guarantee the site stays clean?

We guarantee the cleanup: if the same infection returns within 30 days we fix it at no charge. We cannot guarantee a site stays clean indefinitely if nothing is keeping plugins updated afterwards — which is why hardening is included and maintenance is offered, not required.

Can you remove the Google warning?

Yes. Once the site is clean we submit for review through Search Console. Reviews typically clear within a few days, and we confirm the warning is gone rather than assuming.

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