Malware is a piece of code that is injected into your website by the attackers and your website may behave in the following ways.
- Your website goes down
- The homepage is replaced with a foreign page
- Your website redirects to porn or other malicious websites.
- Your website starts sending spam and ultimately is blocked by the hosting company.
- Your website does not show any visible sign of malware but starts downloading malicious code to the user’s computer.
In all of the above cases, Google and other anti-virus vendors will block your website with a message which asks the users not to open your website as it hosts malicious code, which leads to loss of business/customer base.
The malware attacks are visibly on the rise and one must know how to handle the situation if your site ever comes under malware attack and how to protect against them. I will also discuss how you can protect your website against malware attacks.