During the last few years, Imunify products utilized several ways of handling malicious files in the Malware Scanner, giving users an option to choose a way that fits them best (Delete permanently, Quarantine file, Cleanup, Just display in dashboard).
At first glance, it might not be obvious why the legacy “Quarantine” or “Delete” actions are no longer effective, so we prepared a short explanation on the Pros and Cons of using the “old-school” methods in comparison with safe and reliable malware cleanup.
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Option |
Drawbacks |
Benefits |
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Delete permanently |
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Quarantine file |
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Cleanup |
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As you can see, the Cleanup option includes everything needed to make the malware removal process safe and effective, and the websites remain operational afterward, unlike the quarantining and deletion of malicious files. None of them can deal with injections, which are roughly half of all malicious entries found on infected websites, but the cleanup can.
If you had a chance to test our Malware Scanner a couple of years ago, you might face the issues with an automatic cleanup. Since we’ve fixed everything that may cause issues, we’re confident regarding the stability and reliability.
The Cleanup feature is used by most of our customers and we have not received any negative feedback for a long time. (Details how it works you can find in the Blog post).
Thus, taking into account features, drawbacks, and benefits, we decided to gradually remove Delete and Quarantine options from the Imunify Malware Scanner during the next releases.
The features removal will go gradual and divided into three phases:
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Phase |
Description |
Version |
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1 |
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v5.4 |
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2 |
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v5.6 |
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3 |
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v5.8 |
The option Cleanup,
Quarantine as fallback, will also be replaced by the - Cleanup, which is more effective.The feature Try to restore from backup first remains available because it can be combined with the Cleanup option.
Please give our product team feedback on these changes, or share your ideas and feature requests via feedback@imunify360.com.
If you encounter any problems with configurations, please send a comment or request to our Imunify support team via cloudlinux.zendesk.com.
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