Title: Virusdie &#8211; One-click website security
Author: Virusdie
Published: <strong>November 7, 2021</strong>
Last modified: January 30, 2026

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# Virusdie – One-click website security

 By [Virusdie](https://profiles.wordpress.org/virusdie/)

[Download](https://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/virusdie.1.1.8.zip)

 * [Details](https://wordpress.org/plugins/virusdie/#description)
 * [Reviews](https://wordpress.org/plugins/virusdie/#reviews)
 *  [Installation](https://wordpress.org/plugins/virusdie/#installation)
 * [Development](https://wordpress.org/plugins/virusdie/#developers)

 [Support](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/virusdie/)

## Description

ONE-CLICK WEBSITE SECURITY WITH VIRUSDIE WORDPRESS PLUGIN

### Welcome to the most anticipated website security plugin – Virusdie WordPress Plugin!

Managing website security like malware scanning and removal, website hardening, 
patch management, real-time website protection against online attacks, and blacklist
monitoring – is an automatic pleasure and we can prove it!

 * **More than 3 million** connected websites!
 * **99.87% malware and vulnerabilities detection rate.** The best detection rate
   in the industry. Virusdie detects as many threats as possible, including new 
   kinds of threats
 * **No false positives.** False positives rate — less than 0.0002%. You can always
   be sure that your antivirus won’t mislead you)
 * **Website cleanup in one click.** The industry’s safest automatic cleanup procedures
   ensure that your site will remain stable after cleanup (automatic malware removal)
 * **Real-time website protection** against attacks by Website Firewall (protection
   against bad bots, DoS, XSS, SQL injections, suspicious uploads and activities,
   etc.)
 * **Virtual and real patch management** (website hardening). It makes a virtual
   patch automatically or updates your vulnerable plug-ins and other site components
   in seconds, minimizing the risk of future problems.
 * **Blacklist monitoring and blacklisting tool** that help you save time for unblacklisting
   by an automated un-blacklist wizard.
 * **Smooth onboarding:** only dashboard with all you need. Manage Virusdie tools
   in a click! Your website is in full view: entire web-security status on one page.
 * **Friendly and responsive Virusdie support team.** We are welcome to help you
   and answer your questions.

To avoid interruptions to your business, you need to keep your site free of viruses.
As they say, shit happens — but when it does, you have to clean it up, and fast.
Today, Virusdie makes it possible to resolve 100% of the security issues most businesses
face, either fully or partially automatically. We’ve taken powerful website security
tools and made them friendly and automatic in WordPress plugin format. Now, you 
can scan, clean, and protect your site from a single panel with just one click of
the mouse. What’s more, you won’t need any help to use Virusdie. This means that
you’ll save tons of time while keeping your site’s security under your control!

#### Free plan feature list:

1. Antivirus:

 1. No extreme server CPU load while scanning!
 2. Instant malware database update. The antivirus database is automatically updated
    in the background, so you won’t even have to think about doing anything manually
    to be sure you can eliminate as many viruses and vulnerabilities as possible.
 3. Scans once a month:
 4.  * Scanning website files for malware: all website files (not just CMS’ files),
       themes, plugins, PHP, JS, HTML, images, files with no type, any binary files
       and system files, .htaccess, and files with custom types and archives.
     * Scanning website database. Scan posts and comments for bad URLs and suspicious
       content, scan posts and comments for malware and injections.
     * Scanning for malware types (threats): malware, malicious redirects, Trojans,
       backdoors, shell scripts, malicious codes, bad URLs and SEO spam, defaces, code
       injections, browser coin miners.
 5. Detailed scan reports with malware and threats description and recommendations.
 6. Add files to the exclusion list to ignore them in future scans.

Find out more about [Virusdie Antivirus](https://virusdie.com/tools/#3rdPage)

2. WAF:

 1. Don’t slow down your website while you’re using WAF!
 2. Instant Firewall rules database update.
 3. Bad requests, hacks attempts and attacks detection.

Find out more about [Virusdie Firewall](https://virusdie.com/tools/#6page)

3. Patch Management (website hardening)

 1. Instant vulnerabilities database update.
 2. Check site (files, themes, plugins and components) for known security vulnerabilities
    and alerts you if found.
 3. Scan once a month.

Find out more about [Virusdie Patch Manager](https://virusdie.com/tools/#4rdPage)

4. Blacklists Monitoring

 1. Checking your website more than 60+ blacklists automatically.
 2. One-click to un-blacklist.

Find out more about [Virusdie Blacklist Monitoring](https://virusdie.com/tools/#7page)

#### Premium plan feature list:

(In addition to the free plan’ feature list)

1. Antivirus:

 1. Daily scans and Unlimited scans.
 2. Automatic malware removal: The safest in the industry automatic malware removal–
    Your website continues to run stably after the automated cleanup.
 3. Unlimited site cleanups.
 4. File editor.
 5. Malicious code highlighting in the file editor.
 6. Pre-cleanup file backups.
 7. Exclusion list to add files and ignore them in future scans.

Find out more about [Virusdie Antivirus](https://virusdie.com/tools/#3rdPage)

1. Firewall:

 1.  Basic bad request protection.
 2.  XSS and SQL injection protection.
 3.  DoS-attacks protection.
 4.  Brute force protection by limiting login attempts.
 5.  Content scraping protection.
 6.  Malicious uploads prevention.
 7.  IP whitelisting/blacklisting.
 8.  URL blocking.
 9.  Country blocking.
 10. History of blocked requests.
 11. Make custom rules to block requests based by: IP Range, Hostname, User Agent and
     Referrer.
 12. Make custom rules generic type for POST/GET requests.

Find out more about [Virusdie Firewall](https://virusdie.com/tools/#6page)

Patch Management:

 1. Daily and Unlimited scans.
 2. Automatic virtual vulnerability patching (website hardening).
 3. Automatic real patch management.

Find out more about [Virusdie Patch Manager](https://virusdie.com/tools/#4rdPage)

#### Coming soon:

 * **Teamwork:** you will be able to share access to your site with your team. Simple
   and secure!
 * **Website sharing.** You’ll be able to share your website access with your digital
   agency who manage your website security – with one click!
 * **Website insurance and security expert marketplace:** for being confident that
   in the event of a complex website infection or damage to your site, getting help
   from third-party security experts to restore your site won’t cost you any more
   than the minimum cost in your insurance policy.
 * **Firewall statistics and attack attempts reports will be available on the free
   tier plan!** Keep your finger on the website pulse even for free!

Join us on [Facebook Community](https://www.facebook.com/groups/WebSecCommunityVirusdie)
and find out more about Virusdie cloud security tools.

## Screenshots

 * [[
 * Welcome page
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 * First Scan page
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 * Free dashboard page
 * [[
 * Premium dashboard page

## Installation

Upload the Virusdie plugin to your site and activate it.

## FAQ

### How to create a new VDWS_Virusdie account via the Virusdie WordPress plugin?

Just click on the link “[Create Account](https://myaccount.virusdie.com/user/signup/)”
at the bottom of the plugin authorization page.

### Can I use my current account for the Virusdie WordPress plugin?

Of course. But be sure that the tariff plan of your account lets you connect one
more site. If you need to upgrade your plan, please, go to the billing section in
the Virusdie complete dashboard. If there’s any problem with signing in, [contact our support team](https://wordpress.org/plugins/virusdie/support@virusdie.com?output_format=md).

### Is there a free version of the Virusdie WordPress plugin?

Yes, of course. There are two versions of the plugin – Free and Premium.
 In the
Premium version, you have full access to all Vithrusdie tools such as daily and 
unlimited scans, auto-cleanup, patch management, WAF, black- and whitelisting, blacklists’
monitoring, file editor and malicious code highlighting, pre-cleanup backups, reports.
In the Free version, you can scan your site files for malware, malicious redirects
and code, trojans, backdoors, shell scripts and so on once a month; you can also
get detailed scan reports with malware and threats description and recommendations.

### What if I see a “Sync problem” status near my website domain?

First of all, go to the Virusdie complete dashboard. And then follow the [instruction](https://virusdie.com/faq/syncproblems/).
If you can’t handle the issue yourself, you can request our support team to help
you.

### How can I go to Virusdie complete dashboard?

There are two ways to access the Virusdie complete dashboard.
 The first one is 
clicking on your avatar, which is in the upper right corner of the plugin area, 
and then clicking a menu item “Dashboard”. Or you can click on the link “Jump to
complete dashboard >” in the Website health monitor dashboard in the plugin area.

### How can I upgrade my Free plan to a Premium one?

Just click “Upgrade Plan” or “Buy premium” in the Virusdie WordPress plugin. Or 
go to the Virusdie complete dashboard, to the billing section. Then choose a tariff
plan you need and follow the instructions of the payment system.

### How can I get in touch with the Virusdie support team?

You can click the “Send request to support >” link in the plugin area. Or you can
send an email to our support team via [support@virusdie.com](https://wordpress.org/plugins/virusdie/support@virusdie.com?output_format=md)

### How often does Virusdie scan my website?

On the Free plan: Your website is scanned once a month.
 On the Premium plan: You
have unlimited scans for your website. Just switch on “Daily scans” on the plugin
area. Also, you can adjust scheduled scanning (in the Virusdie complete dashboard):
daily, weekly, monthly. Or you can run scanning manually.

### Why does the first scan go longer than the following ones?

Because we use the Virusdie Fast Scan engine. When you add a website to your account
for the first time, Virusdie scans your website entirely with a full scan tool and
makes a website snapshot. Then, it runs the fast scan engine for future scans.
 
Here you can learn more about the Virusdie Fast Scan engine.

### What should I do if threats were detected during the scan?

Calm down! Because there is an automatic malware removal tool in Virusdie, the safest
one in the industry. To remove a threat (or threats), you should jump to Virusdie
complete dashboard and click the green button “Clean Up’ opposite an infected site.
Next, turn on the Automatic website cleanup feature in the Virusdie WordPress plugin
or the Virusdie complete dashboard to remove all threats during scanning automatically
next time. You can learn more about how the Virusdie antivirus works [here](https://virusdie.com/faq/antivirus/).

And, yes, we have Pre-cleanup file backups. Click [here](https://virusdie.com/faq/backups/)
to find out more about backups.

Please, notice the auto-cleanup is available only on Premium.

### Is the Virusdie WordPress plugin able to find and patch vulnerabilities in my website?

Yes, sure! To maximize the protection of your website, you can turn on Website Antivirus
for real patching and turn on both Website Firewall and Patch Manager for website
hardening.

You can read more about patch manager [here](https://virusdie.com/faq/patchmanager/)
and about website hardening [here](https://virusdie.com/faq/virtualpatching/).

### Where can I see the Virusdie Terms of Use and Privacy Policy?

You can find both documents on our official website via links: [Terms of Use](https://virusdie.com/rules/termsofuse/)
and [Privacy Policy](https://virusdie.com/rules/privacypolicy/).

## Reviews

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s=60&d=retro&r=g)

### 󠀁[One Time Password](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/one-time-password-5/)󠁿

 [malthead](https://profiles.wordpress.org/malthead/) October 15, 2025

I have requested a one-time password several times. Unfortunately, I didn’t receive
any and nothing arrived in my spam folder.

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s=60&d=retro&r=g)

### 󠀁[Great, but… still not for agency](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/great-but-still-not-for-agency/)󠁿

 [Nelmedia](https://profiles.wordpress.org/nelmedia/) October 11, 2025

As mentioned before (i.e. 3 years ago), even as of today (October 2025 with new 
version 1.1.5) it is still not suitable for agency… You need to provide your email
address, so the account is linked to your account… The problem is when they click
on a link for details, it takes them to the Virusdie web site, where they can see
and manage all of your accounts… Not too good…! It would be okay if the link (that
includes special characters to point to the right place in your account) included
something that would limit the access to JUST that account/web site. So, for now,
the manual way is probably still the best way (though your clients can’t see it).

![](https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/73fb47c48b5f30a1f8c3da47e4b2219b89a9e97d2c064e6e46222bbc0d974778?
s=60&d=retro&r=g)

### 󠀁[Great plugin](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/great-plugin-40936/)󠁿

 [peterbach2](https://profiles.wordpress.org/peterbach2/) October 11, 2025

Great secuirty plugin guys, keep up the good work and the updates for the WodPRess
plugin! 🙂

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s=60&d=retro&r=g)

### 󠀁[Wow, this plugin…](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wow-this-plugin-2/)󠁿

 [allways4backup](https://profiles.wordpress.org/allways4backup/) November 22, 2024

saved my ass. Got 2 vulnerable plugins. Solved 🙂

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### 󠀁[Fantastic function, semi-automatic safety tool.](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/fantastic-function-semi-automatic-safety-tool/)󠁿

 [Anders Granholm](https://profiles.wordpress.org/bcmain/) December 19, 2022

I have used VirusDie (VD) for 3 months now. Installed on our own pages as well as
most of our customers websites as well. The install is super easy. Either install
the plugin. Add admin-email address, receive code to that e-mail address. Copy, 
and paste in customers plugin-settings. Done. orInstall small php-file in root of
customers hosting via for example ftp, or the hosting companies file manager. Then,
if you like, you have your own admin dashboard to make adjustments to each site.
You can set interval for scanning, change the power of the firewall, enable automatic
patching of security glitches, and so on. Super great tool to have. So great to 
add to customers site, since we are experts in making great web sites, not expert
in making sure EVERY security details is sorted out. As well as we now can say we
take care of our customers web sites as part of a good support contract. Please 
note, VD is super friendly when it comes to support. And they are top notch to improve
VD with better features and faster services month after month. I am not paid by 
them (I pay them). I am not part of the company or the team. I do not know any of
them. Please not I will not use “super” for the next 3 months, starting now.

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s=60&d=retro&r=g)

### 󠀁[Plugin Not suitable for agency accounts](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/not-suitable-for-agency-accounts/)󠁿

 [peakperformancedigital](https://profiles.wordpress.org/peakperformancedigital/)
November 29, 2021 2 replies

The dashboard has lots of great information but also shows pricing information and
controls that non-administrators shouldn’t see. The worst part though is that clicking
the manage subscription link on the dashboard will take my clients into my agency
virusdie dashboard where they have access to my entire account!

 [ Read all 9 reviews ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/virusdie/reviews/)

## Contributors & Developers

“Virusdie – One-click website security” is open source software. The following people
have contributed to this plugin.

Contributors

 *   [ Virusdie ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/virusdie/)
 *   [ matveevartem ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/matveevartem/)

“Virusdie – One-click website security” has been translated into 1 locale. Thank
you to [the translators](https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/virusdie/contributors)
for their contributions.

[Translate “Virusdie – One-click website security” into your language.](https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/virusdie)

### Interested in development?

[Browse the code](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/virusdie/), check out
the [SVN repository](https://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/virusdie/), or subscribe 
to the [development log](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/virusdie/) by [RSS](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/virusdie/?limit=100&mode=stop_on_copy&format=rss).

## Changelog

= v 1.1.8

_Release Date – 31 January 2026_

 * Improved plugin security and stability.

= v 1.1.7

_Release Date – 30 December 2025_

 * The API key verification procedure and the procedure to get access to security
   plugin been updated. To deliver more stability and safety.

= v 1.1.6

_Release Date – 12 December 2025_

 * Error handling has been reworked.
 * More detailed error messages.

= v 1.1.5

_Release Date – 03 October 2025_

 * Fix login issues.
 * Updated Virusdie API interaction.

= v 1.1.4

_Release Date – 11 July 2025_

 * Potential vulnerability fix.

= v 1.1.3

_Release Date – 20 Mar 2024_

 * Updated Virusdie API interaction.

= v 1.1.2

_Release Date – 26 October 2023_

 * Updated Virusdie API interaction.

= v 1.1.1

_Release Date – 13 October 2023_

 * Bugs are fixed.

= v 1.1.0

_Release Date – 26 July 2023_

 * Added the new.virusdie.com integration.
 * Added website database scan results.
 * Bugs are fixed.

= v 1.0.16

_Release Date – 06 July 2023_

 * Fixed broken links to the Virusdie account.
 * Fixed wrong paths to external files (scripts, css, pictures).
 * Restored compatibility with older versions of PHP (5.2 is supported now).
 * And other fixes.

= v 1.0.15

_Release Date – 12 February 2022_

 * We have added an autotest to check the WAF availability.
 * We have added fixes for some issues with WAF on PHP 8.x.

= v 1.0.14

_Release Date – 02 February 2022_

 * We have performed some code optimizations.

= v 1.0.13

_Release Date – 20 January 2022_

 * Added cURL support.
 * Added a page with the instructions when there’re no required PHP settings in 
   the system.

= v 1.0.12

_Release Date – 06 January 2022_

 * The code has been optimized.

= v 1.0.11

_Release Date – 05 January 2022_

 * The code has been optimized.

= v 1.0.10

_Release Date – 23 December 2021_

 * The code has been optimized.

= v 1.0.9

_Release Date – 07 December 2021_

 * Fixed a bug with attacks blocked by the firewall when the indicator of the found
   vulnerability was displayed.

= v 1.0.7

_Release Date – 06 December 2021_

 * Fixed a bug when the site was not displayed in the dashboard and switches did
   not work

= v 1.0.5

_Release Date – 02 December 2021_

 * We changed the order of connection styles

= v 1.0.4

_Release Date – 26 November 2021_

 * We’ve added notification about the absence of a email subscription during the
   authorization.

= v 1.0.3

_Release Date – 26 November 2021_

 * Support WordPress Multisite
 * UX improved

= v 1.0.2

_Release Date – 25 November 2021_

 * We have fixed some issues in php 8.x

= v 1.0.1

_Release Date – 10 November 2021_

 * We fixed some discovered bugs:
    - A problem with a toggle switch was fixed

= v 1.0.0

_Release Date – 28 October 2021_

 * Initial release with autorization at virusdie.com and free and premium control
   panels.

## Meta

 *  Version **1.1.8**
 *  Last updated **3 months ago**
 *  Active installations **2,000+**
 *  WordPress version ** 5.0 or higher **
 *  Tested up to **6.8.5**
 *  PHP version ** 5.6 or higher **
 *  Languages
 * [Dutch](https://nl.wordpress.org/plugins/virusdie/) and [English (US)](https://wordpress.org/plugins/virusdie/).
 *  [Translate into your language](https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/virusdie)
 * Tags
 * [antivirus](https://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/antivirus/)[firewall](https://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/firewall/)
   [malware scanner](https://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/malware-scanner/)[security](https://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/security/)
   [security plugin](https://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/security-plugin/)
 *  [Advanced View](https://wordpress.org/plugins/virusdie/advanced/)

## Ratings

 4 out of 5 stars.

 *  [  6 5-star reviews     ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/virusdie/reviews/?filter=5)
 *  [  0 4-star reviews     ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/virusdie/reviews/?filter=4)
 *  [  1 3-star review     ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/virusdie/reviews/?filter=3)
 *  [  1 2-star review     ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/virusdie/reviews/?filter=2)
 *  [  1 1-star review     ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/virusdie/reviews/?filter=1)

[Your review](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/virusdie/reviews/#new-post)

[See all reviews](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/virusdie/reviews/)

## Contributors

 *   [ Virusdie ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/virusdie/)
 *   [ matveevartem ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/matveevartem/)

## Support

Got something to say? Need help?

 [View support forum](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/virusdie/)