Name: Hardening WordPress Website - MalCare Feature
Uploaded: 2018-08-22T12:13:18.000Z
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Description: Hardening WordPress Website - MalCare Feature

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Users of MalCare have experienced the relief of completely unhacking severely compromised websites, even in cases where the website admin was inaccessible. They have praised the excellent support provided by MalCare in resolving hacking issues and taking necessary actions on their behalf. This has solved the critical business problem of having a hacked website that may have been out of reach for the administrators, ensuring that their online presence is restored and protected.

In addition, users have found immense value in the all-in-one dashboard provided by MalCare. With easy access to website security, plugin updates, backups, and speed optimization, businesses no longer need to worry about hiring additional personnel to clean hacked sites. This has saved them both time and resources. The comprehensive features of MalCare, including security, speed optimization, and updates, have been highly appreciated by customers as they provide a holistic solution to tackle multiple aspects of website management. By effectively removing malicious files and scripts from websites, MalCare ensures website security and reduces the headaches associated with maintaining a secure online platform. Furthermore, users have received valuable feedback from MalCare on how to prevent future attacks, allowing them to proactively safeguard their websites against potential threats.

MalCare's effectiveness extends beyond individual websites. It has successfully cleaned up malware on high-traffic publishing sites, which is crucial for maintaining business continuity and preventing reputational damage. Moreover, users have found great value in having a snapshot of their site's health at any given moment. This solves the problem of monitoring website health and provides peace of mind for businesses.

Overall, MalCare has proven itself as an invaluable tool for solving critical business problems related to website security and maintenance. Its ability to completely unhack compromised websites, provide excellent support, remove malicious files, offer comprehensive features through an all-in-one dashboard, and give valuable feedback for prevention has made it a trusted solution for businesses looking to protect their online assets effectively and efficiently.

Poor Communication and Responsiveness: Some users have expressed frustration with the lack of communication and responsiveness from the MalCare team. They have reported difficulties in getting timely responses to their inquiries and issues, which has led to a sense of dissatisfaction and a perceived lack of support.

Incompetence and Poor Quality Product: Several users have voiced concerns about what they perceive as incompetence on the part of MalCare. They feel that the company did not meet their expectations in terms of providing an effective solution for cleaning malware from their websites. These users also believe that the overall quality of the product is subpar, leading to further disappointment.

Refusal to Fix Infected Sites and Provide Refunds: A number of reviewers have mentioned that MalCare did not successfully resolve their infected sites despite their claims. Moreover, these users felt let down when MalCare refused to provide them with a refund for their troubles. This has left them dissatisfied with both the efficacy of the product and the customer service provided by MalCare.

Effective Malware Detection and Removal: Several users have found MalCare to be highly effective in detecting and removing malware, including link injection malware. It has outperformed other security plugins that they have used in the past.

Good Support: Users appreciate the good support provided by MalCare. When the initial scan did not detect the malware, the subsequent scan successfully identified it. The quick response from the support team and their assistance during hacking incidents have been praised by multiple reviewers.

Wide Range of Tools and Features: Reviewers have highlighted the variety of tools and features offered by MalCare. These are easily accessible from a single dashboard, making it convenient for users to manage their website security. Some of these features include firewall protection, website backup function, Autoclean functionality, login protection, speed monitoring, scanning for viruses and malware, uptime monitoring, and plugin update notifications.

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Here is a quick overview on the working of MalCare!

Find out more about MalCare here - https://www.malcare.com

WordPress Firewall & Login Protection - MalCare Feature

MalCare’s WordPress Firewall and Login Protection works round the clock to keep unwanted visitors from accessing your site and improve WordPress security. 

- Website Firewall 

The web application firewall analyses every IP request to keep malicious traffic and hackers away from your site. MalCare also preemptively blocks IPs with malicious intent from even sending requests to your site.

- Login Protection

The WordPress Security Plugin protects your WordPress login from a number of WordPress security issues like brute force attacks and unwanted login attempts by automatically blocking fake login attempts via CAPTCHA-based protection. This ensures only authorized users can access your site.

MalCare is designed to fortify and protect your site using Firewall and WordPress hardening practices. 

Besides WordPress Firewall, MalCare offers a ton of other security features. It’s most notable features include:
* Powerful Scanner
* One-Click Automated Cleaner
* Login Protection
* Site Management
* Site Hardening
* White-Labeling & Client Reporting
* Uptime Monitoring & Performance Check

MalCare Scanner

MalCare comes with a Powerful Comprehensive Scanner that uses over 100 intelligent signals to look for the presence of malware on your WordPress website. It goes beyond signature matching to detect hard to find, complex malware.

MalCare Scanner runs on their own servers, which means that the performance of our website is never affected. To run the process on its own server, MalCare syncs your site to its server and daily tracks any changes that are not supposed to be there. This helps to locate malware with pinpoint accuracy and reduce false positives and enhance WordPress security.

MalCare Cleaner

MalCare Cleaner is an industry-first One-Click Cleaner that wipes off all traces to malware from your website. It’s painful to wait around for someone else to fix our website and to give away your credentials to an unknown security personnel. But with MalCare, all it takes is just one click to clean my site completely. 

MalCare does a complete malware removal making sure that malware cannot re-enter the website via a backdoor. Also with MalCare, you can clean out malware without affecting the rest of our site. That is, MalCare will only remove the files in the part of the site that are hacked. The other files are not changed.

Website Hardening

WordPress suggests many WordPress security tips to harden your website. MalCare makes it easy for you to take those steps. Based on the level of severity of security implementation required, MalCare divides Site hardening practices into 3 parts: Essentials, Advanced, and Paranoid. 

Under Essential measures, you can Block PHP Execution in Untrusted Folders, Change Database Prefix, and Disable Files Editor. Under Advanced, you can Block Plugin/Theme Installation. Under Paranoid, you can Reset all Passwords and Change Security Keys.

Website Management

MalCare comes integrated with a complete website management module that ensures better security to your website from a single dashboard. You can Update Outdated Plugins, Theme, and WordPress Core, and even Activate or Delete plugins and themes from the MalCare dashboard itself. Moreover, you can Add, Delete or Change User Roles of the Users of your WordPress website. 

Uptime Monitoring & Performance Check

The WordPress security plugin offers Uptime Monitoring feature that notifies you if a website goes down so that you can handle the situation before you start losing visitors. And Performance Check enables users to view the time your website takes to load fully.

White Labeling and Client Reporting 

MalCare offers a premium White-Label solution along with an ability to generate beautiful and detailed Client Reports for Developers and Agencies. 

Integrated Secure Backups

The WordPress security plugin also offers backups powered by BlogVault Backup Services. Secure automatic website backups ensure that you have access to your backups when you need them. Right from your MalCare dashboard. 

BlogVault takes Daily Automatic Backups that you can also Schedule as per your convenience and even take On-Demand Backups whenever you need. For large websites, it takes Incremental Backups and for WooCommerce sites, BlogVault offers Real-Time Backup feature. You can go back in time and Access up to 365 Days Backup and choose which one you want to restore with the One-Click Auto Restore feature. Not just that, there are options for Off-site Storage, and even Staging and Migration of sites.

For more information on MalCare, check out these pages: 
Website - https://www.malcare.com
MalCare FAQ - https://www.malcare.com/faq/ 
MalCare Help Docs - https://malcare.freshdesk.com/
WordPress Firewall - https://bit.ly/2DvbJ4Z 
How to Enable WordPress Firewall on My Site? - https://bit.ly/2zcvIlW

Hardening WordPress Website - MalCare Feature

With MalCare, Hardening WordPress website is easy. Secure your WordPress site by enabling the recommended WordPress Hardening best practices right from the MalCare dashboard. 

For hardening WordPress security, use MalCare to implement the following these measures:
1. Essentials Measures -
     - Block PHP Execution in Untrusted Folders
     - Change Database Prefix
     - Disable Files Editor
2. Advanced Measures -
     - Block Plugin/Theme Installation
3. Paranoid Measures -
    - Reset all Passwords
    - Change Security Keys

MalCare’s Site Hardening measures help you perform the following:

* Disable File Editor: 

Implement WordPress recommended website security tips and defend your site against the most common WordPress security issues. MalCare lets you disable file editing to remove file editing from the WP dashboard.

* Protect Uploads Folder: 

MalCare can help you block the execution of any PHP files in the uploads folder. This will help protect your sites from well-known security issues and WordPress vulnerabilities such as the MailPoet plugin vulnerability.

* Change Security Keys: 

Use MalCare to implement advanced site hardening measures like modifying the security keys in the wpconfig.php file to make your site more secure against hackers.

* Disallow Plugin Installation: 

Use the MalCare dashboard to disable plugin installations. This feature ensures hackers with access to your WordPress Admin panel cannot install a rogue theme or plugin.

Besides Website Hardening, MalCare a ton of other security features. It’s most notable features include:
- Powerful Scanner
- One-Click Automated Cleaner
- Intelligent Firewall
- Login Protection
- Site Management
- White-Labeling & Client Reporting
- Uptime Monitoring & Performance Check
- Integrated Secure Backups

MalCare Scanner

MalCare comes with a Powerful Comprehensive Scanner that goes beyond signature matching to detect hard to find, complex malware. MalCare Scanner runs on their own servers, which means that the performance of our website is never affected. The security plugin is able to locate malware with pinpoint accuracy and therefore reduce false positives.

MalCare Cleaner

MalCare Cleaner is an industry-first One-Click Cleaner that wipes off all traces to malware from your website. It’s painful to wait around for someone else to fix our website and to give away your credentials to an unknown security personnel. But with MalCare, all it takes is just one click to clean the site perform hardening WordPress security. 

MalCare Firewall

MalCare Firewall fortifies your website against external attacks. It intercepts every request made to your WordPress website to check if the request is malicious or safe. The request is allowed to pass through it, and only if the request is determined to be safe. Any IP address deemed bad is blocked from accessing your website.

Login Protection

MalCare triggers automatic CAPTCHA to protect your site from bots trying to gain unauthorized access to your site. For hardening WordPress website, the security plugin also keeps an audit log that identifies and records all instances of unauthorized access to your WordPress website. 

Website Management

MalCare comes integrated with a complete website management module that ensures better security to your website from a single dashboard. You can Update Outdated Plugins, Theme, and WordPress Core, and even Activate or Delete plugins and themes from the MalCare dashboard itself. Moreover, you can Add, Delete or Change User Roles of the Users of your WordPress website. 

White Labeling and Client Reporting 

MalCare offers a premium White-Label solution along with an ability to generate beautiful and detailed Client Reports for Developers and Agencies. 

Integrated Secure Backups

MalCare also offers backups powered by BlogVault Backup Services. Secure automatic website backups ensure that you have access to your backups when you need them. Right from your MalCare dashboard. It helps you further in hardening WordPress site.

BlogVault takes Daily Automatic Backups that you can also Schedule as per your convenience and even take On-Demand Backups whenever you need. For large websites, it takes Incremental Backups, and for WooCommerce sites, BlogVault offers Real-Time Backup feature. You can go back in time and Access up to 365 Days Backup and choose which one you want to restore with the One-Click Auto Restore feature. Not just that, there are options for Off-site Storage, and even Staging and Migration of sites.

MalCare’s strength lies in not only putting together existing security practices but also improving upon them.

For more information on MalCare, check out these pages: 
Website - https://www.malcare.com
MalCare FAQ - https://www.malcare.com/faq/ 
MalCare Help Docs - https://malcare.freshdesk.com/
Site Hardening - https://bit.ly/2RTSZQL

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