Website recently received a "Deceptive Site" notice from Google. I am WordPress

Navjot Singh answers:

Use FTP to take a backup of your themes/plugins/uploads folders and then delete all uploads, plugins and the inactive themes from your server. Also delete the wp-admin and wp-content and remaining wordpress files from the root folder except for wp-config.php and replace them with the files from a freshly downloaded wordpress install.

Also look for any suscipious file or a recently modified file which you didn't modify in the themes folder or the root wordpress folder.

After making these changes, try to log back in your site.

Arnav Joy answers:

Please check this
https://www.getastra.com/blog/911/remove-deceptive-site-ahead-warning/
and this
https://www.hostinger.in/tutorials/fix-site-ahead-contains-harmful-programs-error

Monit Jadhav answers:

It seems like a malware, Check for any weird looking files on FTP root remove them if possible

Comprehensive guide here

https://smackdown.blogsblogsblogs.com/2008/06/24/how-to-completely-clean-your-hacked-wordpress-installation/

Detailed tutorial similar to what Navjot said

Wordpress Guide on hacked sites

https://wordpress.org/support/article/faq-my-site-was-hacked/

Hardening Wordpress so as to avoid future mishaps of this kind

https://wordpress.org/support/article/hardening-wordpress/


A word from google on how to fix this

https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/99020?co=GENIE.Platform%3DDesktop&hl=en

Also check out these two links below as well

https://dzone.com/articles/what-is-deceptive-site-ahead-warning-in-chrome-and

https://www.getastra.com/blog/911/remove-deceptive-site-ahead-warning/

Hope this solves the issue

Let me know if the problem persists

Bob answers:

Can you share your website url?
What does google webmaster/console report says?

You can find many tutorials on youtube to cleaning wordpress files.
Here is one.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8XvXsRnFTY0

Sometime Hackers inject Scripts in database so you have to check that also.
There could be Malicious script in your theme or upload directory files so before restoring/uploading it with new wordpress files please check them also.

Many hosting provider can help you to clean infected website/files you can ask their help also.

After cleaning website you need to go to google website/google search console to let google know that website is clean now.

Don't forget to check your .htaccess file too. sometime redirect code is added there.

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Hariprasad Vijayan answers:

Hi there,

Checkout these links

https://securityboulevard.com/2020/03/how-to-easily-repair-hacked-website-complete-guide/
https://sucuri.net/guides/how-to-clean-hacked-wordpress/

https://wordpress.org/support/article/faq-my-site-was-hacked/

Regards,
Hari

Cesar Contreras answers:

install your backup of the most current website from ftp