A straightforward malware cleanup typically costs $250-$600 flat rate. Deeply embedded infections, blacklisted domains, and sites without clean backups take longer and cost more - sometimes considerably more.
What drives the price
- How the attackers got in, and how deep they went. Spam links injected into one file is a short cleanup; backdoors seeded across a database take longer to find and remove all of them.
- The damage outside your site. If Google has flagged the domain, clearing the warning is extra work on top of the cleanup.
- Whether a clean backup exists. Without one, content and settings have to be recovered from the infected site itself, carefully, file by file.
The hidden costs people forget
Lost sales while the site is down or flagged. The traffic that doesn't come back on its own. The customers who saw the "this site may be hacked" warning and bought elsewhere. The cleanup fee is often the smallest part of the real bill - which is why prevention costs so much less.
What our cleanup includes
We find the way in, remove the malware and the backdoors, rebuild the core files from the official originals, patch the hole, and resubmit the site to Google if it was flagged. Flat rate, agreed after we've looked and before we start.
A real example
Two hacked sites, very different bills. A small brochure site infected through an outdated plugin took a standard cleanup: malware removed, backdoor patched, blacklist review requested - a flat-rate job. A WooCommerce store that was quietly skimming customer data for three weeks before anyone noticed needed forensic review of orders and customer records on top of the cleanup, roughly tripling the cost. The honest answer to "how much" depends on what the attacker touched, which is why diagnosis comes before the quote.
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Hacked Site Cleanup
From $249, flat rate. You approve the price before we start.