Your store is defaced, redirecting, or skimming cards. We get it clean and back online, evict the backdoor, and harden it so it doesn't come back. From $390.
Search “opencart malware removal” and you get scanners, free downloads, and a few shops promising to clean your store for $30. The scanner finds the infected file and deletes it. The store breaks, or worse, the infection comes back the next day because nobody found the thing that let it in.
That’s the part most malware removal misses on OpenCart. The visible infection (the redirect, the spam, the skimmer on checkout) is the symptom. The backdoor is usually hiding in a modification file, a planted admin user, or a patched core file the scanner waved through. Delete the symptom and leave the backdoor, and you’re cleaning the same store every week.
We do restoration, not a quick scan. We find how they got in, clean the store properly, rebuild from a known-good OpenCart core, and harden the way back in. Then it’s actually clean.
Defacement, SEO spam in the catalog, pharma keywords, or customers redirected to another site. Ugly and obvious, and usually the easiest part to clean once we find the source.
JavaScript injected into the checkout or a payment template, quietly copying card numbers at the point of sale. This is the one with breach-notification weight, and the one we look for first.
The part that brings the malware back: a backdoor in an ocmod or vqmod file, a planted admin account, a modified core file, or a scheduled task re-downloading the payload. If this survives, nothing else matters.
Most cheap cleanups handle the first layer and miss the third. That's why stores get reinfected. We don't close the job until the way back in is gone.
Every recovery starts with a backup of the store as-is, even infected, so we have a forensic copy and a fallback. Then the full clean.
You get the store back online, clean, and a short write-up of how they got in and what we changed. If card data was exposed, you get that called out plainly, because it changes what you owe your customers.
Back online, infection gone, extensions reapplied, checkout verified clean.
How they got in, what they touched, and whether card data was exposed, in plain English.
The infected copy preserved, so there's a record if you need it for a payment processor or insurer.
The exact holes we closed and what to watch, so it doesn't happen again.
Thirty minutes to go through what happened and what to do next.
We start with triage the same day, give you a fixed quote before any real work, then clean and harden. Most stores are back online within 24 to 72 hours.
You give us admin, SFTP, and database access. We find the infection and the likely entry point first.
Hour 1 — cause identifiedWe stop the bleeding, take a forensic backup, and send you a fixed quote before the full clean.
Same dayRemove the malware and backdoor, rebuild core from a known-good copy, reapply legit extensions, and verify the checkout.
Day 1-3Close the entry point, lock the store and config, request blacklist removal, and walk you through it.
On completionTriage and containment is $390. That gets you the cause, a forensic backup, and the bleeding stopped, often within a few hours. If that’s all you need, that’s where it ends.
A full clean and rebuild starts at $890, depending on how deep the infection went and how many modifications need rebuilding. You get the fixed number before any of that work starts, not a surprise at the end.
If there’s a skimmer copying card numbers, every day it runs is more exposed customers and more liability. Tell us it’s a live skimmer and we treat it as an emergency: triage same day, checkout cleaned first. Once you’re clean, an OpenCart security audit closes the gaps that let it in.
This is the OpenCart version of our restoration and recovery service. The pattern is the same one we run on any hacked site: find the entry, clean properly, rebuild from known-good, harden the way back in. If you want the platform view, our OpenCart support overview covers the maintenance and upgrade work that keeps a store from getting here in the first place.
Cleaning is only half the job. Once the store is clean, the OpenCart security audit is what stops a repeat, and the two usually run back to back on the same engagement. If the whole server is involved, not just the store, our Linux server recovery handles the box underneath.
The store sits on a Linux server, and a compromise often starts there. Our Linux server support page covers that layer. There’s no point cleaning a store while the server it runs on is still handing out keys. Running WordPress rather than OpenCart? We also handle WordPress malware removal.
Deciding whether to upgrade first? We weigh up OpenCart 3 vs 4 and when the move is worth it.
We'll triage the same day. Send context, screenshots, error messages — whatever you have. No sales calls, no chatbots.
