Malware Measures & Vulnerabilities

Site Security Monitor Adds Rescan Button

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If your day starts anything like mine then you open up your favourite RSS feeder and filter through a significant number of blog posts and newspaper articles related to hacking, hacker, malware and website infection.  In fact I am able to be specific enough with my reader to have it show me whenever people write to Google, Badware Busters, LinkedIn, etc.  to ask what they should do when their site has been flagged as being harmful or potentially dangerous.  And I am able to direct the infected parties toward the SiteSecurityMonitor's web site and free initial scan. 

In the past SSM customers would register for the free scan, see what a boon having the protection and seal of protection was for their site and many would become members and pay to have a regular system analysis performed.  Once they became our customers then they would receive a regular report to let them know where their site housed infections or vulnerabilities.  We all know what happens when a website gets hacked.  As Regina Smola, WordPress Security Expert, suggests, "it puts the webmaster in a tailspin, wondering what to do and what files have been infected. It puts the webmaster at risk of infecting their site visitors, getting blacklisted from search engines, and losing their website's trust and reputation. A hacked website requires an immediate response... detect, clean and close the vulnerabilities."

We have found our customers want the scan done and then, once they have made the necessary repairs to their content, they are interested in ensuring they have removed all of the malware.  They want another scan done sooner rather than later.  In the past SSM offered the scan to be completed on a regularly set schedule and the customer would have to wait to have a chance to see if they were in the clear.  Now we have a new option for SSM service users; a rescan button right on your My Site Reports page.

This is just the latest way that we can meet the needs of our growing client base.  Smola, an SSM customer since [date] continues to be a fan of our services too.  She encourages WordPress users to have their "website scanned at Site Security Monitor" and adds that it is the "first step to a safer and successful website."