Title: Site Security Scanning
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# Site Security Scanning

 *  [jonikw](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jonikw/)
 * (@jonikw)
 * [15 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/site-security-scanning/)
 * In general does external site security scanning done by such as [http://sitelock.com](http://sitelock.com)
   or [http://wpsecuritylock.com](http://wpsecuritylock.com) provide an adequate
   level of monitoring for malware and other site exploits?
 * As a WP site admin who does not want to be losing sleep at night worrying about
   potential threats – would you suggest paying an annual fee for one of these services?
 * Thanks!

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 *  [TheNet](https://wordpress.org/support/users/thenet/)
 * (@thenet)
 * [15 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/site-security-scanning/#post-1510607)
 * I’m not sure about you, But in general there are many ways that you can protect
   you data and your server from hacking.
 * You can do backups con jobs, Making your passwords harder would help too.
 * You can sign up for google’s webmaster tools that will tell you if google is 
   detecting some sort of malware in your site.
 *  [Mark Ratledge](https://wordpress.org/support/users/songdogtech/)
 * (@songdogtech)
 * [15 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/site-security-scanning/#post-1510614)
 * You’re better off being with a good Linux host (not particularly GoDaddy and 
   the rest of the cheap ones) and doing your own hardening: [Hardening WordPress « WordPress Codex](http://codex.wordpress.org/Hardening_WordPress).
   This looks useful, too: [WordPress › WordPress File Monitor « WordPress Plugins](http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wordpress-file-monitor/)
 * [@thenet](https://wordpress.org/support/users/thenet/): Backups mean nothing 
   in terms of security; one does need them to recover from a hack or a crash, but
   they do not prevent anything. And Google takes weeks to crawl sites and flag 
   malware; by then, it’s too late.
 *  Thread Starter [jonikw](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jonikw/)
 * (@jonikw)
 * [15 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/site-security-scanning/#post-1510632)
 * [@songdogtech](https://wordpress.org/support/users/songdogtech/) thanks for the
   info – unfortunately my client is hosting on GoDaddy (I tried to “suggest” a 
   switch, but to no avail). I’ll check out the File Monitor plugin.

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