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On top of any plugin, you can also have your site scanned regularly by Sucuri, a great malware scanning service.
In addition, if you do get effected, you can pay for their service and they will help remove the malware from your site.
I definitely recommend Sucuri for anyone that needs malware protection … which is pretty much everyone