Malware Protection Powered by Imunify CloudAV

Did you know that ImunifyAV, ImunifyAV+, and Imunify360 come with powerful cloud-based malware detection?

The option allows suspicious files from your server to be automatically uploaded to Imunify’s secure cloud for in-depth analysis. Both automated systems and security experts review these files to quickly discover new malware variants across the entire Imunify network and produce cleanup solutions.

Overall, CloudAV helps to expand malware coverage, especially for cases where the classic signature approach isn’t effective enough. CloudAV can extract heavily packed malware that requires significant CPU/RAM resources, is capable of doing sandboxing, accessing & analyzing external resources used by hackers to store malware, and even detect backdoors in vulnerabilities hidden to look as unintentional.

Why Keep It Enabled?

By keeping this feature enabled, you:

• Help uncover emerging malware faster
• Receive detection updates sooner, reducing the time malware stays hidden on your server
• Eliminate threats before they can cause harm
• Benefit from global threat intelligence

At the same time, we care about your privacy. All data is encrypted, securely stored, and handled under strict security protocols. Files containing personal data are deleted as quickly as possible. In the case of concerns, any file containing personal or sensitive information can be requested for removal, with the prevention of any further upload attempts.

How to Control The Feature?

The feature can be managed via the UI: Imunify360 → Settings → Malware
In the General section, locate the option “Automatically send suspicious and malicious files for analysis” and ensure it is enabled (the checkbox should be ticked). However, disabling it may reduce malware detection speed and weaken your server’s protection.

It is also possible to control it over CLI. By default, this feature is enabled.

Command to enable:

Command to disable (Not Recommended):