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AntiVirus
A tiny scanner that occasionally leaves the back door wide open.
HealthyDeclining
59/100
Serious reports of missed malware and site crashes undermine the decent star rating.
Active installs
~35,000
our estimate · wp.org shows 30k+
Rating
4.1★
23 ratings
Trend · vs a year ago
-19%
Declining
59 → 48 installs/day
Downloads over time
real new installs per day · release spikes shown separately from the trend2025-04-302025-08-082025-11-162026-02-232026-06-03
organicrelease spikerelease tailorganic trend · 14d rolling median
Declining · -19% in the last year
59/day a year ago→48/day today
Reviews
what people actually sayAntiVirus is a free WordPress security plugin that earns cautious goodwill for basic theme scanning, but is undermined by credible reports of missed threats, a quarantine feature that crashes sites, and rude support that refuses refunds.
What people like
- +Free to use with no cost barrier×2
- +Basic theme/malware scanning works for some users without issues×4
- +Described as easy and smooth to run×2
Common complaints
- −Missed real threats — failed to detect an active spam injector and reported no infected files on a site that was sending security alerts×2
- −Quarantine feature crashed a website when activated
- −Customer support described as extremely rude, and refunds are refused
- −False positives flagging legitimate theme files as threats
- −UI bug: dismissing one warning in a row closes all warnings, forcing a full rescan
- −Scanning scope is limited — does not scan all folders, only themes
- −One reviewer alleges the plugin itself installs a backdoor and persists after uninstallation
Review trustMostly organic
- 4.09★Verified rating — holds steady vs the raw 4.10★
- 0%One-shot reviewers — most reviewers are active community members
- past spikeReview timing — up to 50% of all reviews landed in a single month
Reviews per month · 5★ vs lower
2023-11-172025-03-112026-06-04
5★ reviews1–4★ reviews
All-time ratings · 23 total
Latest reviews · 23 analyzed
- 2026-05-05★★★★★muy malofranksysgfx
- 2023-11-17★★★★★bug in the new versionilijagl
- 2020-08-19★★★★★Nice onealmma
- 2020-08-17★★★★★Excellent Antivirus WordPress plugin.raulmuroc
- 2018-08-29★★★★★Nice pluginnhantam
- 2015-08-23★★★★★TrafficJustNec
- 2015-03-27★★★★★Crashed websitecawebdesign52
- 2015-01-19★★★★★quite misleading, detects some threat but cannot find infected filesip11166
- 2015-01-10★★★★★Eine Sorgen weniger die WordPress Seite Virenfrei zu halten.BirgerKlaus
- 2014-07-24★★★★★Perfect Support for a great utilityBego Mario Garde
Releases
recent versions from WordPress.org SVNAlternatives to AntiVirus
Top Security plugins, ranked by score.For developers & the curious
the raw signals behind the grade — none of this is on the friendly summary aboveDownload signals
Baselines are computed on organic days only — release spikes and their tails are excluded, so they're not inflated by the auto-update wave.
47
Baseline · median of last 7 organic days
49
Prior 7-day baseline
37
Floor · 25th percentile over 14 days
55
Latest day · 2026-06-03(organic)
-4.1%
Week-over-week organic trend
Review signals
Concentration and drive-by metrics drive the review-burst and fake-review flags. 30–40% solo reviewers is normal; we only flag the extremes.
50%
Max month share · biggest single 30-day window
3.87
Distribution CV · <0.6 even, >1.5 bursty
65%
5★ share in analyzed sample
0%
Solo reviewers · only this one wp.org activity
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Volume velocity · last 6mo vs prior 6mo
4.09 → 4.09★
Sample avg · raw → solo-filtered