Written by Panayiotis Mavrommatis, Security Team As part of Cyber Security Awareness Month, Google's Anti-Malware Team is publishing a series of educational blog posts inspired by questions we've received from users . October is a great time to brush up on cyber security tips and ensure you're taking the necessary steps to protect your computer, website, and personal information. For general cyber security tips, check out our online security educational series or visit http://www.staysafeonline.org/ . To learn more about malware detection and site cleanup, visit the Webmaster Tools Help Center and Forum . last post in this series, we explained Google's malware scanning process and how malware warning reviews work. It's not always clear to webmasters how to go about cleaning up their sites once they've been compromised, so this time we thought we'd share some best practices.1) Verify Your Site with Google Webmaster Tools added and verified your site's ownership with Google Webmaster Tools, you can view a partial list of URLs where our system has detected suspicious content on your site, as well as samples of the malicious code . Once you've thoroughly cleaned up your site and addressed the vulnerability that allowed it to be compromised, it's easy to request a review through Webmaster Tools. We recognize that some site owners may want to use these tools even if they haven't already signed up with Webmaster Tools. For that reason, we enable you to verify ownership of your sites at any time, even if our systems have listed them as potentially dangerous.2) If Your Site Has Been Compromised, Perform a Comprehensive Cleanup pages listed in Webmaster Tools . Be sure to identify and address the underlying vulnerability that led to the compromise, or else reinfection is likely to occur.Remember to Check Your Web Server Configuration Deleted & Error Pages: Dark Corners of Your Website Where Malware May Be Lurking similar problems . The recently-launched malware samples feature in Google Webmaster Tools could also come in handy.3) If You Switch Hosting Providers, Disable Access to the Old Version of Your Site Webmaster Forum and StopBadware's BadwareBusters can be good sources of help and information when cleaning up a compromised site.
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This is really informative, i got something here. Thanks.
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This is great news.Google Anti-Malware team is rally doing something to make safe use of internet.I'll defiantly follow these guidelines..Thanks for sharing.
- J.
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There are various websites that I visit regularly that have malware warnings, which I appreciate, but I don't always get the same warning screen and one of them makes it particularly difficult to access the site. It lists the URL that I was trying to reach, but it's not a link and there's no "check here to proceed" box. So, I have to copy and paste the URL and then I get the normal Malware warning with the red background and the option to proceed if I check the box. I don't know if this is just a glitch, but it makes browsing much more difficult for me because the websites generally don't have good internal search engines.
I am currently cleaning up malware on the server. Thanks for the tips!
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