Are you wondering as to why your website is blacklisted or showing as dangerous when you or someone try to visit it? it is likely that your website has been hacked or infected with malware and that blacklisting is just a symptom to it being infected or hacked.
Whenever search engines (i.e: Google, Bing, Yandex, etc) and antivirus software providers (i.e: Norton, McAfee, Avast, etc) or even ISPs (Internet service providers) detect or find malware on your website, They will mark and classify your website as dangerous and unsafe to visit and will blacklist it. This action is to prevent access to your website to protect their users from being infected or affected if they visit your infected website because their computer, smartphone, tablet, etc may become infected or hacked.
The hacker may put a malware, virus, ransomware, etc on your website to be auto downloaded & executed upon visiting the page without their permission or knowledge to provide access to the hacker to fully control the visitors/users devices or send remote commands to it or use it in other attacks (i.e: DDoS, Dos, Denial of service attacks) or to cover their tracks to hide their real IP or location, hide or destroy evidence of their identity or their actions.
How to tell if your website has been Hacked or Blacklisted?
- Do you see any strange, unrecognized or inappropriate content on your site?
- Your site started consuming more resources or running slow?
- Do you see unrecognized users, admin users, FTP or email accounts on your site?
- Unrecognized files or folders?
- Customers reporting stolen credit cards after purchasing something from your website?
- Google Chrome, Firefox or other browsers showing a red warning when visiting your website?
- If your Antivirus is showing warnings or alarms when visiting your website.
- Do you see any unrecognized ads, popups or redirects to other sites?
- Your hosting provider suspended your hosting account?
- If your site is listed as hacked or harmful in Google searches.
- If you received a warning from Google webmaster tools or other blacklists.
- If Google Adwords suspended your running Ads.
- There are so many other signs!
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Browsers or search engines may block access to the website and show warning messages similar to the below ones:
- Deceptive site ahead
- This site may be hacked
- This site may be compromised
- This site may harm your computer
- Reported attack page!
- Suspected malware site
- Danger: malware ahead!
- The site ahead contains malware
- The website ahead contains malware!
- This website has been reported as unsafe
- The site ahead contains harmful programs
- This page is trying to load scripts from an unauthenticated source.
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