integrate maldet

[ollybee]

Maldet is *really* useful software for finding malware in hosting accounts.
I've installed it on hundred of plesk servers
Ability to manage maldet via the panel would be a genuinely useful feature.

 

[Nikolay.]

Last time I checked LMD couldn't detect even simplest PHP shells that I can find with grep. Does it make you feel safer to have it?

It's installation script is also a horrible mess, IIRC.

Also, there is http://plesk.uservoice.com for voting and proposal of features.

 

[Tozz]

We use maldet on all our servers and we find it pretty useful. Sure, t has some false positives and some false negatives but all in all we find it very usefull to detect compromised websites. We often detect compromised websites before actual abuse is coming from them (eg. spam). It's true the installation script needs work, and the Plesk implementation is incomplete (it only checks httpdocs IIRC).

 

[ollybee]

Last time I checked LMD couldn't detect even simplest PHP shells that I can find with grep. Does it make you feel safer to have it?

It's installation script is also a horrible mess, IIRC.

Also, there is http://plesk.uservoice.com for voting and proposal of features.

I find badness with maldet maybe not everyday but certainly more than once week. Compared to using a load of custom grep commands it's a different world.
I rarely use it for ongoing protection. Customers complain of server instability and I run it as a one off.
The install scripts has a reconfigured cron task with two lines of Plesk specific commands, it's not a big deal.
It can use it's own scanning engine or Clamav. Clamav is orders of magnitude faster, never run it without clam binary installed.