Scan or Check Website for Malware or Virus

There is nothing worse than having your website flagged by Google for containing Malware. Thankfully, there are many free tools you can use to protect your site from Malware and Viruses. In this tutorial I'll show you how to protect yourself.

Free AVG Web Page Scanner

AVG LinkScanner will check any web page for suspicious code. To use this tool go to http://www.avg.com.au/resources/web-page-scanner/

AVG Scan or Check Website for MalwareThis is a real time check of the page, not a dated previous check, which is very nice. You can click the image to the left for a larger view.

Just type in the captcha code and the web page you want to analyze and hit the scan button. Hopefully your happy with the results that are returned?

AVG also offers free virus protection for your computer on their site.

Google Malware Website Check

Google Scan or Check Website for Malware or Virus. Google also provides a tool that will check your entire domain for Malware. Just type http://www.google.com/safebrowsing/diagnostic?site=yourdomainname.com in your browser. Make sure you type your domain name in the area I have highlighted in blue.

You hopefully will receive the same results I did in this image. If your results are positive you are probably safe from the Google ban, but try the next scan to make sure.