Malcare FREE is mainly buy bait

  • The firewall and offsite scanning are pretty good in the FREE version.
    Honestly it spotted an injection my other tools (before today) had not.

    But when they find an issue, they won’t even tell you what file it is, without upgrading to their minimum continuity, currently at $99 per year for ONE site.

    So I had to install WordFence to find the offending pastebin injection. Which IMHO is crazy! I try to avoid wordfence if I can, because I find it quite a resource hog.

    If you only run one site, then perhaps the subscription is worth it? But I run over 100 wordpress sites, so any cost soon adds up and is quite painful. But there are endless unpaid and GPL options for WAF firewalls, file scanners and so on. Some of them are really great!

    When all you really get is a WAF and a scanner which “alerts” (but not even to which file) I have to question why anyone would bother with this? IMHO it’s just a tease to the paid subscription.

    Honestly I’d have thought they’d get enough business from their premium cleanup service and people who then see the value in being more protected with a subscription. Not forcing people to pay to find out what file they might have found – which could be a false positive. Ouch!

    I’ve since found my own 2 best free options and I’ll be un-installing malcare on every site I own.

    Plus they send a LOT of emails trying to cajole you, until you unsubscribe. Nothing much in life any good is free and the urban word for that is “malcare” as in bad customer care disguised as on-boarding and tips.

    CAVEAT EMPTOR:
    The product is probably fine, but this is mainly marketing buy bait.

    So the point of this is just be aware, that all you’ll get is a VAGUE ALERT and lots of hammering to go premium.

    Shame.

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