One-Click Hack Cleanups: How Daniel Duke Finds and Cleans Malware in Seconds
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Malware is always unexpected
Daniel migrated all of the sites he manages to WP Remote. As the sync completed, the scans showed some nasty surprises.
“So, I onboarded almost 60 sites at once. Right out of the gate, I had two websites with malware issues. Minor, thankfully. I’m pretty sure that they were just poorly written plugins that just needed to be cleaned up. WP Remote was able to help me find the malware, and get rid of it completely on one site. I needed a manual update for a plugin to solve the security issue on second.”
Hackers exploit vulnerabilities in plugins and themes to fill sites with malware. Good plugin and theme developers will release updates to patch vulnerabilities when they are discovered, so it is important to keep sites updated, as far as possible.
Early detection saves the day
Regular malware scanning is a must to save site admin and owners from nasty surprises.
“Thankfully, because I get the notifications so quickly, it’s resolved within a matter of minutes to hours. In the past, I’d have customers calling me and letting me know that there was crazy stuff going on on their site and then I’d have to go solve it. So that’s been huge.”
Malware can damage sites beyond recovery, if not detected in time.
Even if the site is recoverable after a hack, the damage to SEO, traffic, reputation, and occasionally revenue can be irreversible.
WP Remote firewall proactively blocks attacks
Malware is the result of a successful exploit, and that’s when WP Remote’s scanner and removal come into the picture.
However, the majority of attacks should be stopped even before they reach the site. That’s where WP Remote’s firewall comes in.
“Honestly, the IP blocking and firewall have been phenomenal. I use Wordfence on a lot of my sites and I’ve been getting notifications of a lot of attempts from a certain IP or range of IPs. Either WP Remote blocks them automatically, or I set up a block manually. Being able to block countries is amazing too.”
Site security doesn’t have to be exorbitant to be effective. It has to be effective to be effective.
“I don’t have it in WordFence because I use the free version. So it notifies me, but it doesn’t have IP blocking and country blocking in the plugin. So utilizing yours has been great because I’d much rather pay this price to be able to do those things than what WordFence is asking for.”
“I’m thrilled to have a security option that is affordable and works all kinds of magic for me.”
Daniel Duke
Great security gives sites a performance boost
A happy result of blocking bad bots before they reach a site is that the site’s server resources aren’t wasted on them. Less utilisation means that legitimate users find the site faster and more responsive. Plus the owners get a smaller hosting bill. Win-win-win.
“I’ve seen great performance from all of my sites because of the firewall blocking. We just don’t have the kinds of issues that we’ve had in the past. So I love that as well.
Bonus: tell customers how well their sites are secured
“Additionally, I like having all of this in one place where I get to actually report on it. That was another issue that I’d had in the past with reports that I was building on ManageWP; I couldn’t report a lot of these things.”
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