The purpose of these tools and monitoring applications are to review the health of your systems and remove malware if in the event your hosting provider cannot. We have seen many times hosting providers (blue host especially) shut down web locations with embarrassing messages before they contact the site owners or, maintainers to alert them of malware residing on the system.
Worse yet? These companies will hold your web site hostage forcing you to sign up for tools like sitelock and others before they will unlock your domain. These tools were specifically designed to help small businesses avoid the entrapment of such services. To learn more about how you can protect your web location from malware and other malicious scripts please click the link to
Web Site Malware Protection
Maintaining the security for a few web locations we have seen this play out quite a few times. Your site is either hit with a malvertising campaign, a web shell is installed or if you're hosting a start-up security location (blog) and you have some hacking tools, your site is flagged. Not only is it wearing the Scarlet A. You're many times locked out of your site (ssh, ftp, sftp, and other access) and the only way in is to call your host to reset your password. That's not all! If you end up speaking to a representative with some form of ethics, he or she will unlock your site without further issue. However, many of them are told to up-sell you on a service that is $250.00 U.S.D or more to remove the "malware"! If that is not bad enough, once the site is "unlocked" and you can't hunt down where the infection is, or you don't get all the offending files. You're going to get locked out again!
The damage of having malware on your web site goes further than just a simple lock, an embarrassing look but it can also damage your Google, Bing, and Yahoo! search ranking. By the time you're able to clear it up, if you're on of the lucky ones and it doesn't happen again it's approximately a few hours later and you're finding yourself changing all of your passwords.
What Can be Done?
If you are on a VPS or, shared hosting Network Defense Solutions can scan your web location 24/7 to help discover where malware may be hiding. If malware is found, our monitoring services will archive the malware, analyze it and then assist you in creating a remediation strategy so it doesn't happen again! Best part is? It's far less than the ransom you'd be "forced" to pay for larger names without any guarantees!
With our monitoring solution(s) your site will be scanned without the fear of your host shutting down your web site. If malware is detected it's removed an alert is sent to both you the site owner, and an analyst at Network Defense Solutions. If you are subscribed to Threat Defense, we will provide you with a summary of the malware, and provide you with a report as to how the malware may have ended up on your system. All with limited down time to your web location and or business!
If you are interested in remote monitoring for your web location please feel free to contact us for more information. We would be more than happy to help!
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