How Do I Get Google To Uncrawl Malware Pages? Do I Still Have Malware?

spark_sara

My WordPress website was hacked. I had built a drupal website on the same server without security and they took out all the websites on my server. I found out all this happened when google ads pulled my ads because my website had malware. I looked over the website and found that my /post-sitemap.xml page was flooded with urls that contained malware. For example: https://example.com/2oLKWmhnU I went in and removed the malware and it kept sneaking...

Originally asked by Leonard Treman on Stack Exchange (webmasters) (CC BY-SA 4.0).

uphilltech

Great question — answering as the UphillTech team:

I may be missing something, but I don't see any unexpected behavior here. The malware created those pages and then Google indexed them. Then, you removed the malware. Naturally, Google re-crawls the pages as it does for every page in its search index. It found them to be 404, which is the first step towards removing them from the index. After Google performs repeat crawls of the 404 URLs a few times (to confirm they are actually permanently removed), then they will naturally drop out of the index. Davidgo is on the right track about expedited removals, however Google's removals tool that I am aware about only supports URL entry one by one as far as I know. So it might not be particularly...

Full answer by Wolfy: https://webmasters.stackexchange.com/a/144969 (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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