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I just tested two copies of an infected wordpress website.

Copy A: Ran a malware the free version of wordfence
Copy B: Ran a malware the Pro(Paid) version of itheme Security

Here are my findings:
1. Wordfence: was able to detect the malware (backdoors) in my website by performing a scan on my website
2. iTheme: did not find any malware, it said that there were no malware found.

After trying this numerous time I did not felt secure with iTheme as it did not detect a single malware. On the other hand Wordfence detected a over 30 malware in my website and was able to remove them all. Also, wordfence seems to be on top of virus scanning. I recently experience one of my website being hacked by a malware (CryptoPHP) which was a virus that was recently discover in November 10, 2014. After numerous of attempt to try to detect the file that was causing leaving the backdoor open I couldn’t get any help from the plugin iTheme Security.

This is when I started looking at Wordfence. Right away in their blog I saw a post about them talking about this new malware that it was spreading in themes and plugins. Wordfence intermediately included a new search algorithm that was able to scan images in search for the CryptoPHP file. They were successful to identified the source and point it out to us.

In my perception wordfence it is a lot more advance than itheme security.
I’m placing a copy in all my sites.

I would like to hear your experiences too,