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How to get recover from a hacked website
1.
2. WHAT TO DO
WHEN YOUR
WEBSITE IS
HACKEDTHINGS YOU NEED TO
KNOW & FOLLOW
3. Your website is hacked,
what will you do now?
There are thousands of websites that get
hacked, and the owners get it back in their
original form.
4. Apprise your Web Hosting
company
Very first need to know that your website is
hacked is the hosting company of your site.
In most cases, your web host will be able to
fix this.
In case if your host is not able to help you out,
try to find out somebody who is specialized in
retrieving hacked website.
5. Quarantine the website
The next most important step is to turn off
your website and quarantine it offline till
you are sure the problem is fixed.
6. Analyze the attack?
A hacker can attack your site in a
number of ways:
Check out how bad the attack was,
this can be done by looking at the
information in the Massage Center in
the search console.
7. Check for the File
System
This is for more in-depth investigation, to
find out the maximum damage the
hacker could have done to your website
includes modifying the website and other
file systems.
8. Identify the vulnerability
Now analyze your website for
vulnerability, there may be more
than one to be fixed.
Fix all the errors. Keep searching for
the odds, and ensure that the
antivirus has scanned all the
vulnerabilities.
9. Maintain and clean your
website
Keep your website clean and updated. Secure it
with the best security software like cWatch and
never miss to perform the maintenance.
10. Clean your server
Clean the site’s content on the new
backup file system, but make sure
this is not on the server.
11. Map your performance
Make sure you do have a long-term
maintenance plan and not paying attention
will expose you to even more attacks in the
future.