{"id":3412,"date":"2016-09-27T15:02:00","date_gmt":"2016-09-27T15:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.dream.press\/?post_type=announcement&#038;p=3412"},"modified":"2025-05-06T18:50:56","modified_gmt":"2025-05-06T18:50:56","slug":"introducing-dreamshield-website-malware-remover","status":"publish","type":"announcement","link":"https:\/\/news.dream.press\/news\/announcements\/introducing-dreamshield-website-malware-remover\/","title":{"rendered":"Introducing the DreamShield (formerly Malware Remover)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>DreamHost offers several ways to help you keep your website safe (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dreamhost.com\/blog\/introducing-extra-web-security-for-nginx-services\/\">Web Application Firewalls<\/a>,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/grsecurity.net\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">grsecurity kernels<\/a>,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dreamhost.com\/blog\/free-ssltls-certificates-at-dreamhost-with-lets-encrypt\/\">Let\u2019s Encrypt Certificates<\/a>, and&nbsp;more), and today we\u2019re continuing that trend by offering our DreamShield&nbsp;to you.&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dreamhost.com\/academy\/what-is-malware\/\">The Malware Remover<\/a>&nbsp;is another piece in a layered&nbsp;defense that helps to keep your website protected.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The DreamShield <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dreamhost.com\/blog\/what-is-malware\/\">Malware<\/a> Remover is actually software we originally wrote for ourselves. We needed more powerful tools to help keep our machines safe, and realizing there wasn\u2019t really anything out there that could do exactly what we wanted, we made our own. As you might imagine \u2014 being the home for over 1.5 million websites \u2014 we\u2019ve seen more than a few pieces of malware end up on customer websites.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This unfortunate fact, however, helps us know what to look for when we perform these weekly scans on your behalf, and because the internet is a scary place, we\u2019re seeing new things every day. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dreamhost.com\/blog\/enhance-dreamshield-security-audit-log\/\">Weekly scans for malicious code<\/a>, out of date software, and bad file permissions help you defend what is yours. We\u2019re not done with the Malware Remover either \u2014 we\u2019re still tweaking it and writing new features all the time. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Nightmare Labs team is excited to offer the Malware Remover to our customers, and we hope it makes a positive impact on the security and integrity of your website.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"article-cta-shared article-cta-small\">\n\t<div class=\"tr-img-wrap-outer jsLoading\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"js-img-lazy \" src=\"https:\/\/www.dreamhost.com\/news\/wp-content\/themes\/dhtheme2023\/assets\/img\/lazy-loading-transparent.webp\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.dreamhost.com\/news\/wp-content\/themes\/dhtheme2023\/assets\/img\/article-small-ad-cta-placeholder.jpg\"  alt=\"Ad background image\" \/><\/div>\n\n\t<a href='https:\/\/help.dreamhost.com\/hc\/en-us\/articles\/226704048-How-do-I-enable-and-manage-DreamShield' class='link-top'>\n\t\t<span>DreamShield<\/span>\n\t\t<svg xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" viewBox=\"0 0 384 512\" width=\"15\"><path d=\"M342.6 233.4c12.5 12.5 12.5 32.8 0 45.3l-192 192c-12.5 12.5-32.8 12.5-45.3 0s-12.5-32.8 0-45.3L274.7 256 105.4 86.6c-12.5-12.5-12.5-32.8 0-45.3s32.8-12.5 45.3 0l192 192z\"\/><\/svg>\n\t<\/a>\n\n\t<div class=\"content-btm\">\n\t\t<h2 class=\"h2--md\">\n\t\t\tProtect Your Website with DreamShield\n\t\t<\/h2>\n\t\t<p class=\"p--md\">\n\t\t\tFor just $3\/month, our premium security add-on scans your site weekly to ensure it is free of malicious code.\n\t\t<\/p>\n\n\t\t        <a\n            href=\"https:\/\/help.dreamhost.com\/hc\/en-us\/articles\/226704048-How-do-I-enable-and-manage-DreamShield\"\n                        class=\"btn btn--white-outline btn--sm btn--round\"\n                        >\n            Enable DreamShield        <\/a>\n\n\t<\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DreamHost offers several ways to help you keep your website safe (Web Application Firewalls,&nbsp;grsecurity kernels,&nbsp;Let\u2019s Encrypt Certificates, and&nbsp;more), and today we\u2019re continuing that trend by offering our DreamShield&nbsp;to you.&nbsp;The Malware Remover&nbsp;is another piece in a layered&nbsp;defense that helps to keep your website protected. 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