Perform a deep scan of your WordPress site daily

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The first pillar of WordPress security is to detect malware as soon as possible. You can do this by scanning your site with a WordPress malware scanner. We recommend installing MalCare, which has a free malware scanner and a ton of benefits:

Daily Automatic Deep Scan
Detects even the most well-hidden malware and backdoors
An advanced scanner that goes beyond the signature matching used by most other scanners
Identifies malware based on 100+ signals to assess risk
Scans WordPress core files , site database, and plugin and theme files and folders; both free and premium versions
Accuracy 95%+ with no false office 365 database positives
Does not use site resources to perform scanning
MalCare wordpress malware scanner

With MalCare, you will get a clear answer whether your site is hacked or not. Once you have the scan results, you can update the program and clean your site in minutes. Important: If you find malware on your site, clean it immediately. Malware gets worse over time as hackers have time to spread it through your site, steal your data, infect devices and other sites. It is very important that you remove malware as a priority, otherwise you risk Google blacklisting your site or your host suspending it. Malware scanners are not all created equal and have different levels of effectiveness. Most malware scanners use a signature database to detect malware on websites. They compare the code on the site to all the signatures, and if any of them match, the code is marked as malicious. There are several problems with relying solely on a signature database to detect malware . First, the database needs to be updated regularly. Since malware is code, it can have infinite variations, so a newer variant can slip through the scanners without being flagged. Second, the team maintaining the database needs to see the malware to add it to the database. This is easy to do with free plugins and themes, but premium software often goes unnoticed. We’ve seen malware go undetected in page builders like Elementor and Divi, or in popular themes from Envato and Themeforest for this very reason.