There are couple of options available in terms of Free (no support included) and commercial edition available.
You can search for this extensions on your Plesk server and install it directly.
Free Antivirus / Malware for Plesk include the following, with their own limitations
VirusTotal WebSite Check (Compatible for both Windows and Linux environment ) - this extensions will scan all the domains on your server for viruses, worms, trojans and other malware.
- Scan all domains or select individual domains you want to scan.
- View the scan report for each scanned domain.
- Enable email notifications.
- Add a widget with scan notifications to the Plesk Administrator home page.
- Disable domain resolving during scanning.
To activate the scanning:
- Register for free account at VirusTotal website.
- Get your FREE API key.
- Type your FREE API key into the "VirusTotal Public API key" field.
The public API which is the FREE have limitations as outlined at VirusTotal Dev documentation.
Sucuri Website Scanner (Compatible for both Windows and Linux environment ) - The Sucuri Security Scanner remotely detects website security issues, blacklist warnings, and malware visible in the source code. You can set a custom scan time and the alerting mechanism will notify the server administrator if any warnings are detected.
- How does the Sucuri Security Scanner work?
The extensions used the Public API of Sucuri SiteCheck to scan and detect any malicious content on your website.
- What is the scanning policy?
You can execute a manual scan through the extensions with the limitation that it will scan up to 3 domains per minute through the Public API.
If you run and host your customers websites on your Plesk server and looking for a more complete security protection without any hassle on doing troubleshooting work as in the Free options available, consider the following Commercial Plesk Virus / Malware extensions supported. This extensions works out of the box and has been the top pick by most of the Plesk users.
ImunifyAV+ (Only for Linux environment) - An intelligent antivirus and security monitoring tool for websites with one-click automatic malware cleanup, domains reputation monitoring and blacklist status check.
- This extension is available with Free and Commercial edition. We recommend going with the Commercial edition. Check out the full comparison here.
- The commercial version enables one-click automatic cleanup, scheduled websites check, admin and users notifications on malware detection as well as enables user permissions management and introduces User tab with a summary and scanning results.
- Monthly cost $4.40/mo (Plesk retail $4.90/mo)
Imunify360 (Only for Linux environment)
- An advanced firewall/WAF with machine-learning rulesets;
- IDS/IPS;
- Automatic virus & malware scanning and removal;
- Malicious PHP script detection and blocking ("Proactive Defense" component);
- Rebootless kernel patch updating ("KernelCare" component);
- Web host panel integration.
- Brute-force attacks at both network and HTTP levels;
- Vulnerability exploitation, including 0-day attacks;
- DoS (denial of service);
- Port scanning;
Imunify360 comes with a different packages that protects base on number of users on your Plesk users - 1 User / 30 Users / 250 Users and Unlimited Users. Check out more details on Imunify360 at https://www.imunify.com/imunify360
