PHP Malware Scanner

As its name suggests, PHP Malware Scanner is a straightforward and efficient Windows utility designed to help web developers detect unwanted malware presence in PHP and JavaScript files.

The application is designed to be as unassuming and as accessible as possible, hence its bare-bones command line-based GUI. It provides users with 3 basic options: 1. Scan malware with report, 2. Scan malware with report and quarantine, and 3. Find .ico malware.

Subsequent to a typical installation procedure and upon launching the utility, users are greeted by a set of basic system information such as the OS name, the OS version, and the malware signature.

Using PHP Malware Scanner is very straightforward as users simply have to copy their website sources to any folder, and run PHP Malware Scanner to scan the said folder. Simply launch the app and choose one of the three provided methods.

The scanning procedure ends with the app providing users with a comprehensive report which includes details regarding the number of files and folders scanned, the memory used, the number of skipped big files, various adware or spam links.

The utility also displays a report of all the critical shell scripts signatures detected, as well as a list of various warnings.

While it may not be the most visually appealing application out there, PHP Malware Scanner is a useful little app that should come in handy to amateur web developers working with PHP and JavaScript.