I have had two WordPress blogs hacked into in the past. That was at a time when I was doing very little internet marketing, and until I found time to address the situation (months later), these sites were penalised in the search engines. They were not removed, but the rankings were reduced.
Since scare tactics appear to be what drives some people to take fix malware problems free a little more seriously, or at the very least start thinking about the issue, let me shoot a scare tactics your way.
If you're among the ones that are proactive, I might find it somewhat more difficult to try here crack your password. But if you're among those responsive ones, I might just get you.
You also need to place the"Anyone Can Register" in Settings/General to off, and you should have some type of spam plugin. Akismet is the old standby, the one I use, but there are lots of them nowadays.
Make a note of your password! I suggest the free or paid version of the protected software *Roboform* to remember your passwords.
These are only some. Thing is that they don't require much time to do. These are also easy options, which can be carried out easily.