Best virus scanner plugins for WordPress

The most popular virus scanner plugins for WordPress in November 2026, in WordPress.org’s own popular order, which follows active installs. Nova Scan Lite leads with fewer than 10 active installs. All 1 plugins tagged “virus scanner” are below, with figures from WordPress.org that update every day.

Installs aren’t everything: a recent release, a “Tested up to” that matches the current WordPress, and support threads that get resolved show a plugin is looked after. Open any plugin for its downloads, rank history and alternatives.

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Top 1 virus scanner plugins

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Nova Scan Lite
The most installed virus scanner plugin, with fewer than 10 active installs. No reviews yet, updated 2 months ago.

All 1 plugins tagged “virus scanner”

Nova Scan Lite
Down in the last 7 days:4,894#61,802
by SephX2 months ago
Lightweight WordPress malware scanner. Detects PHP backdoors, webshells, and injections with signature-based detection and core file integrity checks.
Installs
<10
Rating
–
Downloads
0/day