Comments on: Check WordPress For A Virus – Many Ways Of Doing It https://blog.tbwhs.com/check-wordpress-for-a-virus/ Tue, 13 Mar 2018 14:31:45 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.1 By: Garen https://blog.tbwhs.com/check-wordpress-for-a-virus/#comment-26960 Sat, 11 Feb 2017 09:35:15 +0000 https://tbwhs.com/blog/?p=5673#comment-26960 In reply to Dira.

Enterprise security is great, but a lot of WordPress security plugins can do the same thing. Also, there are a lot of free and paid WordPress backup plugins, too.

I would go over the cost and see which one would be better. Not just the cheapest, but one that suits your needs. Price is always a factor, though.

As far as plugins there is no magic number of plugins you should have. 5 plugins isn’t really a lot to be installed on a single WordPress installation. Ideally, the lower the better, but this isn’t always the case. If it doesn’t affect your site’s performance I wouldn’t worry about how many you have installed. I have about 20 installed on tbwhs.com 🙂

]]> By: Dira https://blog.tbwhs.com/check-wordpress-for-a-virus/#comment-26945 Thu, 09 Feb 2017 00:09:04 +0000 https://tbwhs.com/blog/?p=5673#comment-26945 Hi Garen,

Thanks for this post. I have learned a lot.
I am a beginner having a website hosted at Wealthy Affiliate. Reading your post got me thinking: I have a premium account and it includes enterprise security, bot net security and daily backups among other things. Do you still recommend to install Wordfence plugin?
Currently, I have already 5 plugins: All In One SEO Pack, Child Theme Configurator, Exclude Pages from Navigation, Open external links in a new window, Ultimate Social Media PLUS.
It is recommended to ‘keep your plugins below 5 to maximize the health of your site. What do you think of this?

]]> By: Garen https://blog.tbwhs.com/check-wordpress-for-a-virus/#comment-26019 Fri, 06 Nov 2015 20:02:00 +0000 https://tbwhs.com/blog/?p=5673#comment-26019 In reply to Martin.

I would check your site weekly.

]]> By: Martin https://blog.tbwhs.com/check-wordpress-for-a-virus/#comment-26018 Fri, 06 Nov 2015 19:21:00 +0000 https://tbwhs.com/blog/?p=5673#comment-26018 Nice job. Complete and easy to follow. I’m really impressed with the videos as I know enough to know it’s not easy but not enough to do it. Seems well researched and formatted. There should be an audience for this site as I’ve heard (from a bias source) that WordPress is susceptible to bugs. I’ve made a shortcut to this site for my future reference.

How often should I check WordPress for viruses?
Thanks

]]> By: Garen https://blog.tbwhs.com/check-wordpress-for-a-virus/#comment-25958 Fri, 08 May 2015 04:50:00 +0000 https://tbwhs.com/blog/?p=5673#comment-25958 There are a lot of WordPress viruses. There are many reasons there could be vulnerability issues with WordPress which will leave you wide open for attacks:

Outdated plugins, themes or WordPress version.
Using “admin” as the wp-admin login.
Poorly structured security settings.

Most commonly you will find these viruses that deface your index dot PHP file. You may also notice script on your website with a bunch of random code.

Hopefully, this helps you!

]]> By: Zachary https://blog.tbwhs.com/check-wordpress-for-a-virus/#comment-26618 Thu, 07 May 2015 05:48:00 +0000 https://tbwhs.com/blog/?p=5673#comment-26618 This is some great information I’ll use on my wordpress site. What viruses can wordpress get that you would need this for? I’ve never heard of wordpress viruses.

]]> By: Garen https://blog.tbwhs.com/check-wordpress-for-a-virus/#comment-25896 Mon, 20 Apr 2015 15:14:00 +0000 https://tbwhs.com/blog/?p=5673#comment-25896 In reply to siamjerry.

No, I don’t believe so. You probably want to install Wordfence security for protection.

For backups I do like to use Dropbox for WordPress. It’s a great plugin for backing up your data. Dropbox allows you to use 5 GB of data for free 🙂

]]> By: siamjerry https://blog.tbwhs.com/check-wordpress-for-a-virus/#comment-25895 Mon, 20 Apr 2015 09:02:00 +0000 https://tbwhs.com/blog/?p=5673#comment-25895 Hi Garen, is our WP site not also being protected by our WA host? What is the best way to back up the site? Cheers, Jerry

]]> By: debra https://blog.tbwhs.com/check-wordpress-for-a-virus/#comment-25894 Mon, 20 Apr 2015 07:52:00 +0000 https://tbwhs.com/blog/?p=5673#comment-25894 I appreciate all the information you have provided here, I am especially going to check out wordfence security with that backup function. It may be just what I need right now. Thank you again.

]]> By: Garen https://blog.tbwhs.com/check-wordpress-for-a-virus/#comment-25868 Thu, 16 Apr 2015 04:33:00 +0000 https://tbwhs.com/blog/?p=5673#comment-25868 In reply to Tasos Perte Tzortzis.

I don’t believe there are any known conflicts with WordFence and other plugins:
https://support.wordfence.com/support/solutions/articles/1000011131-what-known-plugin-conflicts-are-there-with-wordfence-

(WordFence does have very good support, though, so you could always ask them too)

However, if you want to test it out, you could install it and always deactivate one plugin if there are conflicts.

I believe Avast is just for your computer. It’s not going to scan your files on your server. You could always download your files through you FTP and then run a scan on them. However, your web host should be able to run a scan on your files, as well.

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