Even though your hosting providers protect your self-hosted WordPress blog on their servers, There is a chance viruses, worms and malware could easily attack your WordPress installation. Don’t worry, Just install AntiVirus for WordPress plugin, It will take care of your blog.

Installing AntiVirus plugin on your WordPress blog is simple. Login to your Admin page and click on Add New under Plugins section  and enter AntiVirus in Search Term and hit Search. You will see a description about the plugin , Here just click install under the options. The Plugin will install in seconds. Otherwise you can install plugin manually by downloading and uploading it to the plugin directory of your blog. Then activate the plugin. Done, you have successfully installed.

Now go to Installed Plugins section and click on settings of AntiVirus plugin. If you want to get automatic alert daily then check the option as in the graphic below and save changes.

The plugin is free with multilingual support and it is a smart and effective solution to protect your blog against exploits and spam injections. Via Amit.