0498 70 98 60“Dangerous Site” Warning on Your Website
“Dangerous Site” Warning on Your Website? Here’s What to Do
Visitors see a red screen in Chrome, “Dangerous site” or “Deceptive site ahead,” before reaching your website, or Google shows “This site may be hacked” in search results. Most visitors turn back. A “Dangerous site” warning and similar alerts come from Google Safe Browsing and Google Search when they detect malware, phishing or hacked content. They can be lifted, but only after the site is clean and Google has reviewed it.
Signs of a “Dangerous site” warning
A red warning page in Chrome, or in other browsers that use Google Safe Browsing such as Firefox and Safari
“This site may be hacked” or “This site may harm your computer” under your result in Google
A security issue reported in Google Search Console
Your Google Ads disapproved for “Compromised site” or “Malicious software”
Your host or email provider flags your domain
“Dangerous site” warning: what to do right now
- Open Google Search Console > Security issues to see what Google found and the sample URLs.
- Don’t request a review before cleaning. If Google still finds harmful content, the review is rejected and the warning stays in place longer.
- Change all passwords (hosting, WordPress, FTP, database) and enable two-factor authentication.
- Pause Google Ads pointing to the site if they’re disapproved or sending users to a warning page.
- Contact us with screenshots of the warning.
What we do
- Find and remove malware, phishing pages, injected scripts and malicious redirects
- Close the entry point and harden the site
- Verify the site is clean from Google’s perspective
- Request a review in Search Console with a clear description of the fixes
- Monitor until the warning is lifted
Learn more about our Google blacklist removal for WordPress and our full hacked WordPress site repair service. If the hack also created junk URLs, see spam pages in Google.
How long does it take?
Cleanup can start as soon as we have access. Once the review is requested, Google processes it on its own timeline. Google’s documentation indicates that phishing reviews take about a day, malware reviews usually a few days, and reviews of sites hacked with spam can take several weeks. We can’t control that delay, but a clean site and a clear request help avoid a rejected review.
Send us a screenshot. We’ll clean the site and handle the Google review request.
Your questions, answered
Google Safe Browsing detected malware, phishing, unwanted software or hacked content on your domain, usually injected after a security breach.
Clean the site completely, fix the vulnerability, then request a review in the Security issues report of Google Search Console.
Only after cleaning. Google checks the site, and a rejected review slows things down.
Yes. Ads pointing to a compromised site are typically disapproved until the issue is resolved. See Google ad disapproved.
Not reliably. Google needs to confirm the site is clean, so the safest route is to request a review in Search Console after the cleanup, with a short description of what was fixed.