Malware scanner is a lightweight malware scanning component for Joomla. It baselines your site's files, flags suspicious patterns like injected eval/base64 code and known backdoor signatures, and gives you one-click quarantine and restore tools — all from your Joomla admin, no external service required.
Steps:
- Download and install the component file.
- Perform the scans
- Check the results
License
com_malscan (Malware Scanner for Joomla) is free software, licensed under the GNU General Public License v2, or any later version.
You are free to use, study, modify, and redistribute the source code of this extension under the same GPL terms — this is a right guaranteed by the license and cannot be revoked or restricted by us.
The fee charged on this page covers:
- The initial packaged download
- Access to new feature releases
- Support for installation and configuration questions
No additional restrictions are placed on the licensed code itself. In particular:
- There is no domain-locking or activation-key requirement to run the extension
- Security fixes are made available to all users, including those without active support, in line with GPL distribution requirements
The full text of the GNU General Public License v2 is included as LICENSE.txt in the extension package, and is also available at gnu.org.
Documentation
You can find the documentation here
Support
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