It was Monday morning and I was on a call with a dozen others who are my peers. Each of us helps the small business owner with their businesses in one way or the other. It was at the end of the call and we were each sharing our websites and going over how to make little improvements here and there. Time was running out and there was just enough time for one more website review, I volunteered. As my site was coming up for all to see suddenly the screen turned a maroon red with an outline of a security officer with his hand stretched out and the words of"don't precede malware danger." There was more but I was horrified to remember exactly what it said. I was concerned I had spent hours on being destroyed plus humiliated the people on the call had seen me so vulnerable.
Cloning your website is another degree in fix wordpress malware protection which may be useful. Cloning simply means that you've backed up your site to a completely different location, next (offline, as in a folder, so as not to have SEO issues ) where you can access it in a moment's notice if the need arises.
If you're one of the ones that are proactive, I might find it a little more difficult to crack your password. But if you're one of the ones that are responsive, I might just get you.
This is quite handy plugin, protecting you against brute-force attacks that are password-crack. It keeps track of the IP address of every login attempt. You can configure the plugin to disable login attempts for a selection of IP addresses when a certain number of failed attempts is reached.
If you're not currently running the latest version of WordPress, upgrade now. Like maintaining your door unlocked when you leave for vacation, leaving your website on an old version is.
These are a few of the things I do to protect my blogs. Fantastic thing is that they don't need much time to do. These are also options, which can be carried out.