"The Site ahead contains Malware" and now my site doesn't exist

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my website: psesdsu.org

It was working fine a few weeks ago and then got suspended. I found out it got suspended for malware.

If you go to the link, a red page appears telling you "The site ahead contains Malware" and then you can click again to access it. Once you access it, all it says is "Index of /" AND MY WEBSITE IS GONE.
I use Wordpress to edit it and that doesn't exist. I have no idea what happened to my website and I'm freaking out. I'm not really familiar with x10hosting so I have no idea if it still exists or not.

Please someone help ):
 

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For full disclosure, I did detail this in your dispute - your files have been moved to a new folder, public_html_compromised, as a result of your outdated Wordpress install being compromised. You can still recover the files, but I do NOT recommend doing so, as that version was 3.9.2 if memory serves - that is literally more than 1 year out of date (8/6/14), and is not a safe version to run under any circumstances given Wordpress's popularity with hackers/exploiters.

You would be recommended to reinstall from fresh, vendor supplied files of the latest version only, as anything older is a security risk, and we cannot guarantee unsuspension if this happens again, especially if it's due to restoring old files that are not secure.
 

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For full disclosure, I did detail this in your dispute - your files have been moved to a new folder, public_html_compromised, as a result of your outdated Wordpress install being compromised. You can still recover the files, but I do NOT recommend doing so, as that version was 3.9.2 if memory serves - that is literally more than 1 year out of date (8/6/14), and is not a safe version to run under any circumstances given Wordpress's popularity with hackers/exploiters.

You would be recommended to reinstall from fresh, vendor supplied files of the latest version only, as anything older is a security risk, and we cannot guarantee unsuspension if this happens again, especially if it's due to restoring old files that are not secure.
I never got that message nor do I know what that means. If I shouldn't access the old files, how do I edit the website then? I guess I can start from scratch.
 

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The database is intact so if you reinstall Wordpress with the same database username/password it -should- be fine, however due to the version mismatch (latest is 4.3) it may not be able to update it like normal. If that's the case you'd need to start over, but you should still be able to make a database backup since that isn't stored under public_html.
 
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