How to check the website for viruses

How to check the website for viruses

Viruses on the website – the phenomenon frequent. Often the owner does not even suspect that on its resource there are malicious applications which infect users. To avoid a similar situation, it is necessary to check the website for presence of viruses constantly.

First of all try to visit the website from different search engines. Robots learned to find dangerous content long ago and warn users. Most often similar information shows under the link and is colored in red color. Besides, search engines can independently notify you on the found viruses, sending the report to the web master's panels.

 

Antiviruses

 

The easiest to find viruses by means of an antivirus. There are special services which can check your website for availability of malicious applications and the code free of charge. For example, the antivirus of Dr. of WEB placed special on the resource undressed. In addition, there are services which check a resource by means of a set of antiviruses at once, but they, as a rule, paid.

 

You can check the website independently. Come on a hosting and download data of your resource. Then start a house antivirus and select full check. Good programs in addition to applications also analyze the code of pages and compare them with the database. If you need to check others resource, just specify the link to it.

Many hostings offer services of automatic check of the websites. Often it is paid service, however it is really useful. In this case you can does not worry for safety of a resource. And if there are any problems, you can just contact technical support and ask to eliminate a situation.

Other methods



Often other users can notify you on presence of viruses. For example, having left a comment in comments. If at your resource there are a lot of regular customers, then the malicious code or the program will hardly remain nezamechanny. If you look for information on the foreign website, then read responses on the Internet.

It is possible to install a special script which will analyze changes of files in a root folder of the website and in case of suspicions will notify you on mail. There is a lot of such scripts. Suitable for your CMS you will be able to find in the Internet.

The Google search engine has a special service intended just for fight against viruses. It is called "Safe viewing". By means of this service any user can learn whether there is a resource in the list suspicious what pages are infected whether the website is an intermediate link at spread of viruses or itself is their media.

Author: «MirrorInfo» Dream Team


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