Website owners need to periodically scan their website for malware as most of the time an infected website goes undetected. Security professionals / consultants will also benefit from this process. If you are new to this, you can pick up these skills and offer WordPress Malware Removal Services to your clients.
In this video we look at a hacked website, hunt down the malware on the site, inspect the malicious code, and clean up after it.
Critical Steps in WordPress Malware Infection Removal
- 1:33 — Approaches to fixing a hacked WordPress website
- 2:24 — Important things to keep in mind
- 5:20 — Critical steps before starting
- 8:36 — Choosing the scanner
- 9:50 — Scanner Features & Usage
- 14:14 — Starting the website malware scan
- 17:54 — Making sense of the infection
- 18:44 — How do websites get infected
- 23:28 — Reviewing the scan-results
- 24:12 — Inspecting the infected files
- 27:20 — Decoding the malware infection
- 28:52 — The clean-up process
- 32:26 — The effect of this type of malware on the website
- 34:36 — Alternatively, running the scanner using WP-CLI
- 36:16 — Alternative ways to scan
- 36:44 — Verifying that the site is clean
- 37:22 — Making the site available to visitors again
- 38:24 — Documenting proof of a clean site
- 38:34 — Precautionary steps / gotchas / preventive steps for future
- 40:10 — Educating & sensitizing the customer
- 41:24 — Monitoring the site for recurrence of infection