📘 Introduction
Imunify360 is a powerful, AI-driven security suite designed to protect Linux-based web servers. One of its core components is malware scanning, which detects and optionally cleans malicious code from hosted user accounts. This guide provides the key command-line operations for managing malware scans directly on the server.
🚫 Stopping Scans for All Accounts
If you need to stop all active malware scans across all users (e.g., during high server load or maintenance), run:
imunify360-agent malware on-demand stop --all✅ This halts all ongoing on-demand scans across the server.
🔍 Running a Malware Scan for a Specific User
To initiate a targeted malware scan for a single cPanel user, run the following command. Replace USERNAME with the cPanel username:
imunify360-agent malware on-demand start --user USERNAME✅ Scans only the home directory and relevant files of the specified user.
📄 Checking Scan Results for a Specific User
Once the scan is completed, view the malicious file detections for that user with:
imunify360-agent malware malicious list --user USERNAME✅ Outputs a list of all detected threats under that user’s account, including paths and threat types.
🧰 Additional Useful Commands
View Overall Malware Scan Statistics:
imunify360-agent malware statusClean All Malicious Files Automatically for a User:
imunify360-agent malware cleanup all --user USERNAME⚠️ Use with caution — this may delete or quarantine legitimate but flagged files. Always verify before cleanup.
List All Currently Running Scans:
imunify360-agent malware on-demand list📚 Additional Resources
- Imunify360 Malware Scanning Documentation
- CLI Reference:
imunify360-agent malware --help
✅ Summary
By using Imunify360’s CLI tools, administrators can:
- Start and stop scans efficiently.
- Target specific users.
- Review and clean detected threats.
- Maintain server performance and security in real-time.
For automation, consider integrating these commands into your cronjobs or monitoring scripts.