{"id":472,"date":"2024-10-24T21:31:20","date_gmt":"2024-10-24T21:31:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.hostinger.io\/support\/2024\/10\/24\/10043136-reinstalling-monarx-malware-scanner-on-your-vps\/"},"modified":"2026-10-29T14:40:44","modified_gmt":"2026-10-29T14:40:44","slug":"10043136-reinstalling-monarx-malware-scanner-on-your-vps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/10043136-reinstalling-monarx-malware-scanner-on-your-vps\/","title":{"rendered":"Reinstalling Monarx Malware Scanner on your VPS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"no-margin\">To reinstall the Monarx malware scanner on your Hostinger VPS, uninstall Monarx from the Malware Scanner section in Hostinger dashboard, then click the banner and follow the instructions to install it again. Reinstalling Monarx can quickly resolve issues with your VPS malware scanner.<\/p><div class=\"intercom-interblocks-callout\" style=\"background-color: #e3e7fa80;border-color: #334bfa33\">See <a data-click-id=\"hgr-post-content-link-hostinger-vps-malware-scanner\" href=\"\/support\/8450363-hostinger-vps-malware-scanner\/\">Hostinger VPS Malware Scanner<\/a> for more on how Monarx works.<\/div><h2 class=\"no-margin\" id=\"h-reinstall-monarx\">Reinstall Monarx<\/h2><ul>\n<li class=\"no-margin\"><b>Uninstall Monarx<\/b>: Go to the <b>Malware Scanner<\/b> section in Hostinger dashboard, click on <b>Uninstall<\/b>, and follow the prompts to complete the removal.<\/li>\n<\/ul><div class=\"intercom-container intercom-align-center\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-12060 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/imagedelivery.net\/LqiWLm-3MGbYHtFuUbcBtA\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/55\/2026\/06\/2026-06-29_11-01.png\/w=1024,h=96,fit=scale-down\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"96\" srcset=\"https:\/\/imagedelivery.net\/LqiWLm-3MGbYHtFuUbcBtA\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/55\/2026\/06\/2026-06-29_11-01.png\/w=1024,fit=scale-down 1024w, https:\/\/imagedelivery.net\/LqiWLm-3MGbYHtFuUbcBtA\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/55\/2026\/06\/2026-06-29_11-01.png\/w=300,fit=scale-down 300w, https:\/\/imagedelivery.net\/LqiWLm-3MGbYHtFuUbcBtA\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/55\/2026\/06\/2026-06-29_11-01.png\/w=768,fit=scale-down 768w, https:\/\/imagedelivery.net\/LqiWLm-3MGbYHtFuUbcBtA\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/55\/2026\/06\/2026-06-29_11-01.png\/w=1536,fit=scale-down 1536w, https:\/\/imagedelivery.net\/LqiWLm-3MGbYHtFuUbcBtA\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/55\/2026\/06\/2026-06-29_11-01.png\/w=1912,fit=scale-down 1912w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/div><div class=\"intercom-container intercom-align-center\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-12061 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/imagedelivery.net\/LqiWLm-3MGbYHtFuUbcBtA\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/55\/2026\/06\/2026-06-29_11-13.png\/public\" alt=\"\" width=\"1010\" height=\"416\" srcset=\"https:\/\/imagedelivery.net\/LqiWLm-3MGbYHtFuUbcBtA\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/55\/2026\/06\/2026-06-29_11-13.png\/w=1010,fit=scale-down 1010w, https:\/\/imagedelivery.net\/LqiWLm-3MGbYHtFuUbcBtA\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/55\/2026\/06\/2026-06-29_11-13.png\/w=300,fit=scale-down 300w, https:\/\/imagedelivery.net\/LqiWLm-3MGbYHtFuUbcBtA\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/55\/2026\/06\/2026-06-29_11-13.png\/w=768,fit=scale-down 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1010px) 100vw, 1010px\" \/><\/div><ul>\n<li class=\"no-margin\"><b>Reinstall Monarx<\/b>: After uninstallation, navigate back to the <b>Malware Scanner<\/b> section, click on the banner, and follow the instructions to reinstall Monarx.<\/li>\n<\/ul><div class=\"intercom-container intercom-align-center\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-12009 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/imagedelivery.net\/LqiWLm-3MGbYHtFuUbcBtA\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/55\/2026\/06\/2026-06-26_12-16.png\/w=1024,h=578,fit=scale-down\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"578\" srcset=\"https:\/\/imagedelivery.net\/LqiWLm-3MGbYHtFuUbcBtA\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/55\/2026\/06\/2026-06-26_12-16.png\/w=1024,fit=scale-down 1024w, https:\/\/imagedelivery.net\/LqiWLm-3MGbYHtFuUbcBtA\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/55\/2026\/06\/2026-06-26_12-16.png\/w=300,fit=scale-down 300w, https:\/\/imagedelivery.net\/LqiWLm-3MGbYHtFuUbcBtA\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/55\/2026\/06\/2026-06-26_12-16.png\/w=768,fit=scale-down 768w, https:\/\/imagedelivery.net\/LqiWLm-3MGbYHtFuUbcBtA\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/55\/2026\/06\/2026-06-26_12-16.png\/w=1536,fit=scale-down 1536w, https:\/\/imagedelivery.net\/LqiWLm-3MGbYHtFuUbcBtA\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/55\/2026\/06\/2026-06-26_12-16.png\/w=1964,fit=scale-down 1964w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/div><div class=\"intercom-container intercom-align-center\"><\/div><p class=\"no-margin\">If you have previously <b>purchased a license<\/b>, it will <b>automatically be reattached<\/b> after reinstallation. If you don&rsquo;t have a <b><a data-click-id=\"hgr-post-content-link-license\" class=\"intercom-content-link\" href=\"\/support\/8450363-hostinger-vps-malware-scanner\/#h_c34ced49bf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">license<\/a><\/b>, the auto-removal feature will remain inactive, and you will need to remove malicious files manually. After these steps, the Monarx malware scanner should be working again.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Guide on how to reinstall Monarx for your VPS<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":581,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"include_on_kodee":true,"footnotes":""},"categories":[199],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-472","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-vps-management"],"hreflangs":[{"locale":"en-US","link":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/10043136-reinstalling-monarx-malware-scanner-on-your-vps","default":1}],"include_on_kodee":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/472","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/581"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=472"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/472\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22474,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/472\/revisions\/22474"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=472"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=472"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}