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Wordfence Security Daily Malware Scans Are Not the Way to Clean Up a Malware Infection of a WordPress Website

If your WordPress website has been hacked and contains malware, a common suggestion for cleaning it up is to use the Wordfence Security plugin. There are a number of problems with that. One being that it won’t necessarily catch all the malware, as someone looking for help with the plugin recently noted: Hello, I’m using … Continue reading “Wordfence Security Daily Malware Scans Are Not the Way to Clean Up a Malware Infection of a WordPress Website”

Wordfence Care Failed to Resolve Reoccurring Malware Issue on WordPress Website

When it comes to cleaning up hacked WordPress websites, the most important part of doing that is often not done. That being trying to figure out how the website was hacked and fixing that. Sometimes you can get away with failing to do that, other times the problem is going to come back again and … Continue reading “Wordfence Care Failed to Resolve Reoccurring Malware Issue on WordPress Website”

Review of Wordfence Response Shows It Is a Terrible Option For Getting a Hacked WordPress Website Cleaned Up

The popular WordPress security plugin Wordfence Security is marketed with the claim that it will protect websites from being hacked: Powered by the constantly updated Threat Defense Feed, Wordfence Firewall stops you from getting hacked. Despite that, the developer sells two very expensive services for dealing with websites that have been hacked while using that … Continue reading “Review of Wordfence Response Shows It Is a Terrible Option For Getting a Hacked WordPress Website Cleaned Up”

The Wordfence Security Plugin Continues to Fail to Live Up to its Claim to Stop Websites from Being Hacked

A couple of hacked websites we were contacted about recently are reminders contrary the marketing of the most popular WordPress security plugin, Wordfence Security, that it “stops you from getting hacked”, it doesn’t accomplish that. In one of those situation we were provided a list of malicious files that had been supplied by the web … Continue reading “The Wordfence Security Plugin Continues to Fail to Live Up to its Claim to Stop Websites from Being Hacked”

Bad False Positives from Wordfence Security and Quttera Web Malware Scanner WordPress Plugins

We often have people contact us that believe that a claim that their website has been hacked is false because they ran a scanner over and it didn’t find anything. We are not really sure why they don’t ask for the evidence behind the claim and try to see if they can confirm if that … Continue reading “Bad False Positives from Wordfence Security and Quttera Web Malware Scanner WordPress Plugins”

Wordfence Employee Ridiculously Claims You Can Make Sites “invincible against all the attack methods that are associated with WordPress sites”

While we have seen the bad side of the security industry for a long time, certain things continue to be surprising to us despite having seen them many times before. One of those is sheer amount of lying that goes on (that is on top of the amount of the massive amount false and misleading … Continue reading “Wordfence Employee Ridiculously Claims You Can Make Sites “invincible against all the attack methods that are associated with WordPress sites””

Unlike Wordfence, We Fully Guarantee Our Hack Cleanups of WordPress Websites

One of the things that we often get asked about when it comes to hack cleanups, is how long we guarantee them. The answer is quite simple, if the issue comes back that means that we didn’t do something right and we wouldn’t charge anything additional to get it properly resolved. We would think that … Continue reading “Unlike Wordfence, We Fully Guarantee Our Hack Cleanups of WordPress Websites”

Wordfence Employee Admits the Company Knows Wordfence Security Won’t Stop All Hacks as They Continue To Claim Otherwise

What we have been noticing more and more is how much lying is done by the security industry. Considering that trust is an important part of security and you often have to rely on their claims about what protection their products and services might provide, that is a big issue. One glaring example of this … Continue reading “Wordfence Employee Admits the Company Knows Wordfence Security Won’t Stop All Hacks as They Continue To Claim Otherwise”

If Wordfence Security Doesn’t Find Any Malicious Files on Your Website It Doesn’t Mean That It Isn’t Hacked

When it comes to WordPress security plugins, one is by far the most popular. That plugin being Wordfence Security, which has over 2+ million active installs according to wordpress.org (the next most popular one has 800,00+ active installs). At least some of its popularity is based on people believing that the plugins is much more … Continue reading “If Wordfence Security Doesn’t Find Any Malicious Files on Your Website It Doesn’t Mean That It Isn’t Hacked”

Wordfence Pushes Their Less Effective Products and Services Over Doing a Security Basic

From dealing with a lot of hacked website we see the damage the security industry often causes. One of the problems we have run into over and over is that people are not interested in doing the basics of security and instead trying to rely on security products and services to protect them. Doing that … Continue reading “Wordfence Pushes Their Less Effective Products and Services Over Doing a Security Basic”