Anti-Malware Security and Brute-Force Firewall
This Anti-Malware scanner searches for Malware, Viruses, and other security threats and vulnerabilities on your server and it helps you fix them.
4.9(781 reviews)
·100K+ active installs·Updated 3 weeks agoAs of April 2026, Anti-Malware Security and Brute-Force Firewall is a WordPress scanner plugin with 100K+ active installations and a 4.9/5 rating from 781 reviews. It has been downloaded 7.6M+ times in total. Requires WordPress 3.3+ and PHP 5.6+. Available on WordPress.org since 2012. Actively maintained — updated within the last month. Downloads are down 6% this week. Support resolution rate: 75%. Top alternative: Wordfence Security – Firewall, Malware….
4.9/5781 reviews
100K+active installs
75%resolved
14 yearssince 2012
Overview
Features:
- Download Definition Updates to protect against new threats.
- Run a Complete Scan to automatically remove known security threats, backdoor scripts, and database injections.
- Firewall block SoakSoak and other malware from exploiting Revolution Slider and other plugins with known vulnerabilites.
- Upgrade vulnerable versions of timthumb scripts.
Premium Features:
- Patch your wp-login and XMLRPC to block Brute-Force and DDoS attacks.
- Check the integrity of your WordPress Core files.
- Automatically download new Definition Updates when running a Complete Scan.
Register this plugin at GOTMLS.NET and get access to new definitions of “Known Threats” and added features like Automatic Removal, plus patches for specific security vulnerabilities like old versions of timthumb. Updat…
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Recent Reviews
The best!
by slawek7013·1 month ago
it works! 🙂
- This topic was modified 1 month, 1 week ago by slawek7013.
Amazing Plugin
by kjcomparaz·1 month ago
It works all the time!
Great Plugin
by rimmer100·2 months ago·1 reply
Highly recommened and well woth the donation, pulled me out of a hole wordfence didnt spot.
Saved my bacon on NUMEROUS occasions!
by greymouse·3 months ago·1 reply
I can’t say enough good (be sure to donate to get even STRONGER protection) about Anti-Malware plugin. It has been able to clean up several of my sites over the past few yrs with very little effort after some malicious infiltrations.
THANK YOU!!!
Found threats another popular plugin couldn’t
by ngmcadmin·4 months ago
Does the job better than another ‘more popular’ plugin failed to do! Great community and support too!
Download Trends
Today: 1KYesterday: 1KThis week: 8KPeriod total: 779K
Compatibility
| WordPress | 3.3+ requiredTested up to 6.9.4 |
| PHP | 5.6+ required |
Version Adoption
v4.23
82.0%
Other
10.7%
v4.21
7.3%
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Frequently Asked Questions
Changelog
4.23.88
- Fixed PHP Object Injection vulnerability with DB Scan.
Contributors
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