Managing Websites in SiteInspector
In the Websites area, an administrator can add websites for daily blacklist monitoring and / or daily malware scanning services. The administrator also can remove, enable or disable websites from the list in this interface and view reports.
Click on the ' Websites' tab in the interface. By default, the 'Websites' interface will open after logging-in to the SI service.
In the 'Websites' interface, the following tasks can be carried out:
Adding websites for daily blacklist monitoring service
Major search engines including Google, Yahoo. Bing blacklist websites if they find influx of any malware in the sites. Once enrolled in the blacklist, the sites will not be shown in their search results, preventing access to the sites through their search engines. Blacklist Monitoring service in SiteInspector watches the blacklists of all major search engines for the status of your website on a daily basis at a predetermined time. Emails will be sent by SiteInspector daily to you regarding the status of your website and if blacklisted by any of the major search engines, enabling you to take immediate remedial action.
To add a website for daily blacklist monitoring service
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Click the 'Websites' tab at the top of the interface.
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Select 'Daily BlackList Monitoring'.
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Enter the URL of the website that you want to add for daily blacklist monitoring service in the text box and click 'ADD SITE' button.
The website will be added for the service and a success message will be displayed.
Repeat the process for adding more websites in your account. If the number of websites exceeds the subscription plan for your account, a warning message will be displayed while adding a website.
If you want to add websites without changing your subscription plan, disable a website that is currently in the list and repeat the process for adding a website. See the section 'Enabling / Disabling a website for a particular service' section for more details.
Once website(s) have been added, the daily blacklist monitoring will begin at a predetermined time. After the first scan is completed, 'Report' links will be displayed beside the respective websites list in the interface. See the section 'Reports' for more details.
SI will be sending emails daily regarding the status of your websites, which will help you to take immediate remedial action in case of blacklisting any of your websites by major search engines. An example of a notification email is shown below.
Adding websites for daily malware scanning
Daily Malware Scanning service by SI performs automated scans on your website(s) exhaustively for intrusion of any malware and provides you immediate alert if any malware enter your site(s). The scan report provides granular details of the infection and enables you to take action on time in order to disinfect your site, before the search engines blacklist your site.
To add a website for daily malware scanning service
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Click the 'Websites' tab at the top of the interface.
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Select 'Daily Malware Scanning'.
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Enter the URL of the website that you want to add for daily malware scanning service in the text box and click 'ADD SITE' button.
The website will be added for the service and a success message will be displayed.
Repeat the process for adding more websites in your account. If the number of websites exceeds the subscription plan for your account, a warning message will be displayed while adding a website.
If you want to add websites without changing your subscription plan, disable a website that is currently in the list and repeat the process for adding a website. See the section 'Enabling / Disabling a website for a particular service' section for more details.
Once website(s) have been added, the daily malware scanning process will begin at a predetermined time. After the first scan is completed, 'Report' links will be displayed beside the respective websites list in the interface. See the section 'Reports' for more details.
SI will be sending emails daily regarding the status of your websites, which will help you to take immediate remedial action in case of malware infection in any of your websites. An example of a notification email is shown below.
Viewing report for a particular website
Reports of daily malware scanning or daily blacklist monitoring of your websites provide you the information for remedial action if any is required. You can view the report of a particular website or of all the websites in your account in the 'Reports' section. Refer to the section 'Reports' for more details. A new website added to your account will not display 'Report' immediately and will be displayed only after the first daily blacklist monitoring or daily malware scanning is completed at a predetermined time.
To view report for a particular website
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Click the 'Websites' tab at the top of the interface.
The list of websites in your account will be displayed.
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Click the 'Report' link beside the website that you want to view the report.
The summary of report for the selected website will be displayed.
Refer to the section 'Reports' for more details.
Enabling / Disabling a website for a particular service
If you want to add certain number of websites for daily blacklist monitoring or daily malware scanning services than allowed for your account, you have to first disable the same number of websites in the current list. Refer the sections Adding websites for daily blacklist monitoring service and Adding websites for daily malware scanning for more details on how to add websites.
To enable / disable a website for a particular service
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Click the 'Websites' tab at the top of the interface.
The list of websites in your account will be displayed.
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Click the Enable / Disable link beside a website that you want to change the status from enabled to disabled or vice-versa.
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Click 'OK' or 'Cancel' in the confirmation dialog.
The status of the selected website will be altered per your changes and a notification will be displayed.
The pictures below display notification for a website disabled for daily blacklist monitoring service...
...and for a website enabled for daily blacklist monitoring service.
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Note: If you have changed the state of a website from 'Enabled' to 'Disabled', the website will still be available in the list and you can enable it anytime. |
Removing a website for a particular service
If you wish to remove websites from the list for daily blacklist monitoring or daily malware scanning services, this can be easily done from the SiteInspector interface.
To remove a website for a particular service
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Click the 'Websites' tab at the top of the interface.
The list of websites in your account will be displayed.
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Click the 'Remove' beside a website that you want to remove from the list.
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Click' OK' to remove the website from the list.
A notification will be displayed stating that the website has been removed from the selected service.
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Note: The reports generated for the removed website will still be available in the 'Reports' tab. Refer the section 'Reports' for more details. |