How to know if your blog/site is under a malware attack
If you are running a blog, you probably know that search engines play a crucial role in reaching your site to the public or visitors. However, if when searching on a search engine, your blog's address shows a message like "This site may harm your computer" or warns of risks, visitors may hesitate to visit such a site or blog. If a visitor attempts to open a blog without reading the warning, they will encounter this message. Perhaps you've faced this message too.
Not only that, Google may also blacklist your blog or site, and until your blog or site is free from malware, this error message will continue to appear on the internet.
What should you do?
If you're seeing this message on your site, don't panic; it's possible that some code or advertising service you used may have caused this incident. First, change the passwords for your blog, email, etc. Your password might have been hacked too.
Now, open Google Webmaster Tools. If you have a Gmail account, you can sign in with it; otherwise, you'll need to create an account. Go to the Home tab of Google Webmaster Tools.
On the Home tab, you'll see an 'Add A Site' button. Click on it and type or paste the URL of your blog or site.
Then, you'll be asked to verify ownership of your site. For this, a special code will be provided to you, which you need to paste after <html> <head> on your site.
After that, go back to Google Webmaster Tools and verify.
Now, on the home page, you'll see a dashboard for your site. Here you'll see many options; one of them will be the 'malware' tab. Click on it. If your site has malware, it will show you all the URLs and codes that you need to remove from your site or blog. If malware is detected, print it out or copy it to your computer.
Now, open your blog. Go to the template and open it in HTML mode. Use Ctrl+F to find all those codes and delete them. Save the template. Once again, go back to Google Webmaster Tools and check if all the URLs have been cleared of malware. If malware is not showing there, understand that the malware has been removed from your site.
But you still have one more task because Google is still showing a warning that malware has been found on this site. For this, you need to send a Request to Google for Site Review stating that all malware has been removed by me. The malware warning will be removed a few hours after sending the request.
If you want to check if your blog is blacklisted or not, paste your blog's URL into your browser instead of the URL written in red.
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