Signs your site needs cleanup
Compromised websites often show strange redirects, spam pages in search results, browser warnings, unknown admin users, modified theme files, suspicious cron jobs, or disabled security plugins. Cleanup should include both visible symptoms and likely entry points.
- WordPress malware, injected script, backdoor, and redirect investigation
- Unknown admin user, plugin, theme, and file-integrity review
- Hosting account checks for cross-site contamination and stale installs
- Browser warning, search-result spam, and post-cleanup verification support
- Hardening recommendations, backup review, and rebuild planning when needed
Cleanup approach
The goal is not just deleting obvious infected files. Work starts by preserving useful clues, checking core and extension integrity, identifying common persistence mechanisms, cleaning active infection, and documenting what should be patched, removed, replaced, or rebuilt.
Virginia Beach service area
Cyber Duct Tape provides remote WordPress and CMS cleanup for Virginia Beach businesses with hosting, domain, CMS admin, FTP, SFTP, SSH, or control-panel access.