Remove Viruses, Trojans and Malware from your site,
for as little as £120!
More frequently then ever websites are getting hacked into and infected with Virus, Malware and Trojans. The effect and severity of this varies, but needless to say it’s not something that will reflect well on your business and your website. In the worst cases, where the issue is not dealt with swiftly it can lead to search engines blocking your site. To add to the problem personal virus scanners will often pick up threats like this and prevent users from viewing the site.
The other issue, that’s often not realised, is that it generally means that someone else has control of your site. Nine times out of ten a hacker will leave a ‘back door’, allowing them to get into your site again easily in the future. For most businesses that’s an unacceptable risk. Do you trust a stranger with your data, or your public face?
So how do you know if your site been infected?
There are several ways of flagging up if your website has a Virus or Malware. The best way is to keep a virus scanner on your personal computer up-to-date and ensure that you are regularly viewing your site. Often however, these viruses my be fairly harmless meaning not all virus scanners will flag them up. More often than not, it is a customer that will let your know that there is a problem.
If your site is based around a CMS (Content Management System) such as WordPress you might find that key areas of your site, such as your admin pannel, appear stop working or appear to be acting strangely.
For the more tech-savy the apearance of rogue code in the source of a site is a clear indicator. It will tend to appear as a string of random characters, normally between two <script> tags.
If you would like your site checked or would like to know how vulnerable your site is, please get in touch with me.
A quick solution.
Keeping down time to a minimum is key. I have scripts and procedures in place to rapidly scan a site and remove the rogue code, Viruses, Malware and Trojans. This returns the site to a functioning state in the quickest possible time. Its also an inexpensive solution, (as low as only £120) and quickly gets your business back up and running.
“Keeping down time to a minimum is key.”
Once the site is up and running I can then work through a copy of the site, thoroughly checking for problems or hunting for that elusive ‘back door’. Alternatively if a recent backup is available I can work from that, checking for problems and any updates required.
Which ever way the site is restored, I then work through the site, looking for security holes, and hardening it against future attacks, before replacing your live site with a safer, hardened version.
You can contact me here if you would like to uses this service.
What can you do to help prevent this happening?
The first, and most important, thing is to ensure that you have regular incremental backups of your site. – At least then if you do get infected, it’s easy to go back to a working state. Please get in touch if you would like help setting this up, or making it an automated process. As part of my hosting solutions I am able to offer Off Site Managed Backups.
Secondly, I can examen and hardened your site against this sort of attack. This can be done at any stage in a site’s life. Please get in touch if you would like a quote for this service.
