Website recovery

We check the hosting provider first: many keep their own copies from the last few days without the customer knowing. Then come search engine caches and web archives. Structure and copy can usually be saved, though not always everything.

Typical signs: some visitors are redirected elsewhere, pages you never created appear, the host complains about spam, or the browser shows a warning. Sometimes the only symptom is a sudden drop in Google traffic.

Once the threat is removed and a review has been requested, it usually disappears within a few days. It drags on if Google finds malicious code again, which is why the clean-up must be thorough rather than superficial.