June 14th, 2009

Tags: Antivirus, WordPress Antivirus, WordPress Security

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Roseli A. Bakar (4 comments.) says:

6/14/2009 at 11:55 am

There’s no harm in trying this.
Misao (6 comments.) says:

6/14/2009 at 11:58 am

Wow, this is great. Thank you very much!
Rockstar Sid (1 comments.) says:

6/14/2009 at 2:57 pm

Yes, this plugin is great. There is another version of this available which also finds the exploit from the template!
Mike (1 comments.) says:

6/14/2009 at 4:33 pm

Thanks for the info.

Definitely will try this plugin out.

wordpress-firewall.seo plugin is highly recommended for SQL injections, etc.

Lockdown plugin is also quite good.
Webdev (11 comments.) says:

6/14/2009 at 4:43 pm

You just got a five star This is a very useful plugin as there are lots of “theme injection viruses” putting iframes in templates.
Thanks!
Glenn Reffin / Redcentaur (1 comments.) says:

6/14/2009 at 5:20 pm

This is an interesting post – I hadn’t thought about anti-virus for blogs before.

I was considering downloading and installing it until I saw on the wordpress.org/extend/plugins/ page that it was compatible up to WordPress version 2.7.1. As I have just upgraded to 2.8, I’m not sure I want to risk trying to install this plugin until it has been tested and updated for 2.8.

Regards

Glenn
The Frosty @WPCult (11 comments.) says:

6/14/2009 at 6:09 pm

Wow, that’s cool.
MileHighTechGuy (2 comments.) says:

6/14/2009 at 11:09 pm

This looks like another great tool to put in the arsenal.

Once I test it out (to see if it works with 2.8) I’m going to add this to the list of resources where I’ve outlined several security measures for hardening WordPress:

http://milehightechguy.com/how.....-websites/
- MileHighTechGuy (2 comments.) says:
  
  6/15/2009 at 1:44 pm
  
  This plugin seems to be working fine with WP 2.8.
Ryan A. Smith (7 comments.) says:

6/15/2009 at 1:03 am

I don’t understand how this plugin will help, if the computer has anti-virus installed.
- Keith Dsouza (82 comments.) says:
  
  6/15/2009 at 1:35 pm
  
  @Ryan – This plugin just provides a way to scan your themes and see if there are any problems with it.
  
  It is not a replacement for your computer’s antivirus software, and also your antivirus software will not scan your blogs files, however it will protect you when something is being downloaded to your computer.
George Serradinho (107 comments.) says:

6/15/2009 at 1:37 am

Wow, this is cool.

Won’t this be similar to Security Scan plugin in a way?
Jaydip Parikh (2 comments.) says:

6/15/2009 at 8:47 am

Hi ! This is really grate plubing for all people who are serious about own blog. thanks for sharing this wonderful information.
Carson (46 comments.) says:

6/15/2009 at 9:50 am

If you’re not having a problem with viruses why would you want to slow down the loading of your pages by using this plug-in? I haven’t tried this one but anti-virus software generally adds a huge overhead. Sometimes it seems like Norton has taken over my computer.
- Keith Dsouza (82 comments.) says:
  
  6/15/2009 at 1:36 pm
  
  @Carson – This plugin does not actually slow down your pages since it runs in the background if you choose to run daily scans, however you can also manually perform a scan which is pretty fast.
maskuncoro (2 comments.) says:

6/15/2009 at 2:02 pm

Wow… this is a good program. Thx for sharing…
TK says:

7/3/2009 at 7:21 pm

This plugin actually works. To test it I installed a theme that is known to contain spam links in the footer through the use of obfuscated code. The obfuscated code even contains the eval function which can give someone remote access to one’s blog. After activating the theme I scanned it using the antivirus plugin and sure enough it cleared all files except footer.php giving multiple warning for the file.

I would encourage anyone to use this plugin along with the various firewall plugins that are available out there. I know someone whose blog kept getting hacked via sql injection attacks but after installing wp-firewall (free from seo egghead) the hacking stopped. This plugin in conjunction with that one would check for code that may have been left by a hacker after the infiltration.
shaunjudy (1 comments.) says:

7/22/2009 at 11:26 pm

Thanks for the share.. I just downloaded this plugin and will give it a chance. You can never be to safe!
Jessica (1 comments.) says:

6/6/2012 at 1:45 am

What will happen after this plugin detecting malwares/viruses? Does this have a feature to remove viruses? It seems this plugin is nice to try..

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6/14/2009 at 3:45 pm

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Esherido (Dirk Gadsden) (1 comments.) says:

6/14/2009 at 4:16 pm

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6/14/2009 at 5:09 pm

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sparun (Arun Balasubramanian) (1 comments.) says:

6/14/2009 at 5:16 pm

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young_yang (????) (1 comments.) says:

6/15/2009 at 4:12 am

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