It sounds scary, right? Imagine finding out your website is redirecting to malware or bad software. Before you know it, you’re getting emails from regular readers about spammy and virus problems. That’s not a good way to stay trustworthy with your audience. It also kills your credibility with new visitors. What would you do? Where would you even start?
I haven’t had that experience on any of my personal sites, but I did have it on a client website. I was redesigning their current website, which was built with WordPress. I found out that their mobile site was redirecting to malware and 3rd party websites, which is unacceptable.
Detect & Remove Malware from WordPress
So how do you get started in even detecting malware on WordPress? As I told you before, I was testing it on mobile, and found that it was redirecting.
The problem is that I couldn’t figure out where it was coming from. Was it the WordPress install itself? Did some hacker inject code or add something to a directory inside of WordPress? If so, there are tons of files in a WordPress site.
Take a Systematic Approach
To start, its a good idea to run a scan of your website. Sucuri provides a free malware
Source: https://managewp.org/articles/14163/how-to-detect-remove-malware-from-wordpress-websites-creative-beacon
source https://williechiu40.wordpress.com/2017/01/09/how-to-detect-remove-malware-from-wordpress-websites-creative-beacon/
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