Sunday, 23 December 2012

How to scan and detect malware in blogs and websites online 

Mostly People Download Their Whole Data From Their Hosting And Then Check Locally On Their Computer  From Different Anti Malware Software . But Different Companies Providing Facilities To Check Your Website Or Blog Online If They Are Infected With Any Type Of threat.

There Are Different Tools That Detect Malware And Other Threats Form Your Website Or Blog

Sucuri  is a Service that offers a security service that detects unauthorized changes to network (cloud) assets, including web sites, DNS, Whois records, SSL certificates and others. It is also heavily used as an early warning system to detect Malware, Spam and other security issues on web sites and DNS hijacking.


Site Advisor is a service that reports on the safety of web sites by crawling the web and testing the sites it finds for malware and spam. The service was originally developed by SiteAdvisor, Inc, an MIT startup first introduced at CodeCon on February 10, 2006 and later acquired by McAfee on April 5, 2006. Since its founding, it has received criticism for its improper rating of some sites, and more importantly the length of time it takes to resolve complaints.

Tool for webmasters to get a health check on their websites or blogs

Google provides it’s own version of scanning and malware detection tool called Google Safe browsing api. Every webmaster gets alerted via Google webmaster page when there is any suspicious or malicious code found on your website. In order to perform the test type http://www.google.com/safebrowsing/diagnostic?site=yoursite.com URL in your browser and replace the domain name from yoursite.com to your domain.

2 = How to remove malware from your website or blog


In order to remove malware you can adopt one of the following approaches:

Use automated program to remove malware from your website or blog

This should be easy if you are technical enough to complete the setup. Use the software called iScanner.
This is a free software that can detect and remove malware automatically. This software needs to be installed directly on the server hosting your website or blog.

Use last backup to remove malware from your website or blog

This is one of the easiest way to remove malware. Here all you need to do is replace the website with a copy of your back up. This would remove malware infections fastest. If you have a WordPress blog then this could just means that you hit the update button in your WordPress dashboard. That should replace all your infected WordPress files with new ones from the WordPress repository. If you have any WordPress plugins and themes you can use the same mechanism of just replacing them. Since all the settings are in the database you should not lose them when you remove malware by this mechanism.

Perform manual cleanup to remove malware from your website or blog

The second option is to identify individual files that are causing the malware. Some of the tools like Sucurimentioned above can point out the files and lines of code causing the malware. You can then either remove the files or code causing the problem and in turn remove malware. This is definitely a time consuming option and should only be done if you do not have a non infected backup.

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