Dear lady-pirates and gentlemen-pirates! And here it is, this very moment we’ve been going to past 2+ years! Despite the COVID epidemic, lock down and its effects on all the processes. Despite all the sh*t happening now on our blue planet… we’ve been passing through with the new generation of Virusdie in our mind. That is the better way we think we may help make the life at least of a part of humanity better. And we’ve been working hard as you all know all these years, day-by-day to build the new Virusdie with all those things our clients asked for so many times. The new, much more powerful Virusdie for small and medium-size business web-application protection is here as open pre-beta! And if you have Virusdie account you can simply jump between old and new generation of Virusdie, using navigation on top-side of your dashboard! 🙂

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WordPress can be a great website platform. But it is also extremely popular, which means that hackers and malware authors target it.

WordPress is not easy to manage. To make things easier, you can use some WordPress maintenance and support services. These companies can help you maintain your WordPress website and take care of security, patches, backups and more.

If you are a serious website owner or an agency owner looking to expand your business, you have the solution out there. There are many WordPress maintenance and support services that offer white label site management.

One of the big problems that may arise for you when it comes to SEO is if your website gets infected with malware and you have no security tools/services to clean it up.

You cannot ignore the warnings if your website gets malware infection. You could be removed from search engines and your SEO rankings will take a big drop, which will lead to a big traffic loss and in consequence profit. Make sure your site is malware free by using some of the best security services that are available on the Internet.

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A few days ago, I received an email from our long-time client (we built his website and redesigned it several times over the years). He wrote something like the following:
“I think someone broke into my email or website. I received this as a test. Please check it out (ASAP)!”, (and he forwarded the problematic email he received).

After we checked everything necessary (including checking his website with Virusdie), I found that no one had broken into his website (or email).

The customer had received a fake email. But he could not recognize it and his first thought was that someone had hacked him.

That’s when I realized that I need to explain the whole process of email spoofing so that you can recognize such (fake) mails, but also (and more importantly) to protect yourself from email spoofing.

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Dear pirates! This spring, to scale Virusdie business, to protect it and to reduce many political risks, Elijah (CEO) and Helen (COO) made a work-trip to Tbilisi (Georgia). To establish one more international Virusdie company with this local residence in low tax zone. So the new company been established successfully. Here is the short video about that trip 🙂

Joy the trip video. Part 1: Play Video

Next step we’re going to relocate up to a half of our development crew from a number of countries – here to Georgia! Here the sun is shining. And mountains are tall. And fruits are so tasty. So looking for the new office location now. In Tbilisi or, in Baku – on a sea-coast.

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Dear customers.
We’re so happy to announce that now Virusdie integrated with World’s largest referral platform — CJ Affiliate. And now you can easily join it to start promoting Virusdie and earning money. And get your competitive commissions: 40% Commissions On New Subscriptions; 10% Commission On Renewal Subscriptions.

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Hiding/renaming your login does not do much, although you may think it is a great additional protection for your website. That is “security through obscurity” (STO), which is not really protection.

What does “security through obscurity” (STO) mean?

STO is primarily based on hiding important information and enforcing secrecy as the main security technique. Some people believe that by using security by obscurity, they can minimize the risk of an attack.

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Dear customers.
We’re so happy to announce that now you can pay for Virusdie by UnionPay bank cards! UnionPay is a Chinese financial services company that works in more than 180 countries. And now we support UnionPay cards for Virusdie subscriptions!

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Dear customers.
After the 3 month of reconfiguration the Virusdie’ infrastructure we may say that now Virusdie global service runs nodes in US and Europe. The DNS update for CDN now completed. Why we did that? It is simple: Better stability. Better performance. Reduce political risks.

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Dear customers and friends. On April 2022 we’re going to start the open BETA test for the new generation of Virusdie cloud website security tools. We’re almost ready for that. This BETA will be available for everyone by a click on your current Virusdie dashboard. I mean you’ll be able to jump (switch) between new and current User interface whenever you want to check that out how the new one works and help us make it better. Not all features ‘ll be available for BETA, but the majority of them!

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Dear customers. Due to Virusdie website firewall update on February 9th, 2022 there was a possible bug missed probably. Probably, that bug may cause a server error 500 on your websites for websites runs web-server PHP 8.1 with a combination of a specific set of other server-side software or plugins. So that may be possible not for all websites and not for all web-servers, but for web-servers runs PHP 8.1 and a number of installed additional software only.

WHAT NOW IF YOU FACED WITH ERROR 500?
If you face with an error 500 Yesterday,- you may turn off the website firewall to back website online immediately.

BUGFIX:
We made a patch and the rolling out process been initiated to fix all these possible issues in-place on your websites. Meanwhile, if you already faced with error 500 – your website firewall can’t update automatically. Please follow the instructions here below:

1. The new version of the firewall endpoint now rolling out across the Virusdie network. That takes several hours. All updates in place for websites.

2. For some cases for those who runs php 8.1 plus a combination of other software – If you found your site been resolved with 500 error previously, please turn off then turn on website firewall to initiate its update.

You may always ask our support for the help – just create a ticket via your dashboard.

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The workplace was a great place for people to work remotely, but as that became more difficult, many employees were burned out. Now that work and life have merged, this burnout is even more apparent. It affects employees’ decisions and impacts the way they work. Most security experts agree that access controls are the most important aspect of an organization’s IT security strategy. However, they disagree on who should control access and why.

Companies are feeling the effects of employee burnout. More than ever, employees need to stay healthy, stay safe, and stay productive while working from home. For most of us, the job we have today is the one we will have for the rest of our careers. Understanding how the workplace is changing can help us be more successful and efficient.

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Hey hey, brave pirates for Virusdie! Here is the new pack of upgraded features and fixed bugs to deliver more value to you with Virusdie stability and convenience! Upgrades for website firewall, security tools landing page, WordPress plugin and add-on for WHMCS. Bugs fixed for blacklist monitoring alerts and landing page!

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Hey hey, brave pirates for Virusdie! Here is the new pack of upgraded features and fixed bugs to deliver more value to you with Virusdie stability and convenience! Upgrades for website firewall and summary reports. Bugs fixed for summary reports and alerts and the website firewall as well!

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Hey hey, brave pirates for Virusdie! Here is the new pack of fixed bugs to deliver more value to you with Virusdie stability and convenience! Bugs fixed for scheduling scanning, website firewall, domains and reports.

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Why software vulnerabilities cause security risks? Running WordPress or any other CMS (content management system) without adequate security is like owning a warehouse and leaving the key under a mat for thieves. But even with security, hacking is becoming a new reality for many Internet entrepreneurs, content publishers, and digital media retailers.

Attackers can easily access your confidential and private data after hacking your digital property. You can lose significant market share once you learn that your websites and applications have been compromised.

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A WordPress plugin is an application that allows you to add new functionality to your WordPress site. Just like apps do for your smartphone.

If you are familiar with WordPress, you have probably encountered what’s called the “Repository of free WordPress plugins”. Essentially, the repository is a large digital repository of free WordPress plugins that can be installed with a few clicks through the admin interface of WordPress itself on any website that uses – WordPress.

Currently, the repository contains almost 60,000 plugins with over one billion and 240 million downloads. Each of these plugins (at least most of them) brings certain features to a WordPress website, to put it in layman’s terms – they enhance its capabilities. But are these plugins safe to use, who creates them, maintains them, and who even reviews the plugins before they appear in the official WordPress plugin repository?

The creator and co-founder of WordPress CMS is Matt Mullenweg while his company Automattic Corporation owns WordPress.com. Every plugin published there goes through a manual review before it becomes publicly available.

But is everything as secure and vetted? The recent interesting incidents suggest that there are loopholes in the WordPress plugin ecosystem that can be abused to hack and infect a large number of websites. Let us see how and why.

Authors of the WordPress Plugins

The authors of the plugins in the free WordPress repository are people with different profiles, from all over the world, with different programming skills, with different goals and intentions. It’s a motley crew that’s hard to describe in a few sentences.

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Hurray! We’re so excited to announce Virusdie plugin for WordPress websites! What is this? This is the most easiest automatic website security plugin for WordPress in the industry with highest performance in the industry! An explosion blend of simplicity and power you are all love!

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Logs are perhaps one of the most valuable tools available to troubleshoot issues with systems and applications. Logs are hardly new or controversial; in fact, both developers and administrators have been using them for a very long time to understand why things break down and how to fix them.

Logs come in all shapes and sizes, from security and performance logs to activity logs – different systems and processes collect different records. Regardless of the type, logs include a list of events that happen within the application’s or system’s confines, listed in chronological order. In particular, activity logs record activities occurring within a system or application, such as WordPress.

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All WordPress files: themes, plugins and downloads are stored on your website and can become a real mess.

What Are the Benefits of Understanding WordPress File and Directory Structure?

You don’t have to know anything about WordPress to run a WordPress website. You can, however, solve many common problems by understanding how WordPress saves files and uses directories.

You can achieve that by following this guide:

– Understand which WordPress files and folders are part of core;
– To understand how WordPress stores your images and media in a library;
– Where WordPress stores themes and plugins;
– Where WordPress configuration files are stored;
– With this information, you’ll also know which WordPress files should be backed up.

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SEO is a complicated, ever-changing game. If you find that traffic on your website has suddenly dropped, the culprit could be the search engine. This problem should be addressed as soon as possible, as a decline in search engine rankings can result not only in potential customers leaving, but also in lost sales.

Fortunately, there is truth to the matter. You can file a complaint and affect the penalties, but it is important to know how to recognize if your website has been penalized and how to check the result. Our article gives you some tips on how to accomplish that.

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