The article describes the SiteLock scanning preferences options and features located in the SiteLock dashboard >> Site Settings tab >> Scanning Preferences:
Also, these settings can be found in the Security Report tab as well as the detailed report of scan results:
NOTE: naturally, scan duration may drastically differ depending on the size of the website/database (depending on scan type). For bigger websites spanning gigabytes of content, it may take hours, while taking minutes for some smaller websites.
Once the scan is over, you will receive the message that can be found in the Messages tab:
The SMART Database Scan section contains the options regarding the item types that should be removed:
Here you can select what SiteLock should do in case some of these types are detected: just warn or automatically remove them at once.
NOTE: if you enable the automatic removal at once, SiteLock will remove it without any warnings.
Spam Code is code that typically consists of HTML that is used to hide links. Spam Link is a link to a website that has been marked as spam. Malware is a malicious code that can potentially affect a visitor to the site. Edit conflict arises when the record has been modified after SiteLock finds the issue but before they try to fix the record.
Allows to detect and patch vulnerabilities in WordPress and Joomla websites:
NOTE: Although SMART Patch can help bridge the gap between leaving a vulnerability active on the website and performing full updates (Plugins, themes, core files, etc), it is critical to the site's health to perform regular updates. These updates are primarily intended to resolve security issues, so failing to perform updates is recognizing that there is a potential security issue for the site and choosing to ignore it. This can impact the reputation of search engines like Google and can lead to the website becoming compromised by malware attacks.
