{"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":"2026-08-06T04:52:37","modified_gmt":"2026-08-06T04:52:37","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\">Reinstalling Monarx can quickly resolve issues with your VPS malware scanner. This article provides a short, straightforward process for reinstalling <b>Monarx<\/b> through hPanel.<\/p><p class=\"no-margin\">\n<\/p><div class=\"intercom-interblocks-callout\" style=\"background-color: #e3e7fa80;border-color: #334bfa33\">See <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/8450363-hostinger-vps-malware-scanner\/\">Hostinger VPS Malware Scanner<\/a> for more on how Monarx works.<\/div><p>&nbsp;<\/p><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 hPanel, 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:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/55\/2026\/06\/2026-06-29_11-01-1024x96.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"96\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/55\/2026\/06\/2026-06-29_11-01-1024x96.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/55\/2026\/06\/2026-06-29_11-01-300x28.png 300w, https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/55\/2026\/06\/2026-06-29_11-01-768x72.png 768w, https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/55\/2026\/06\/2026-06-29_11-01-1536x145.png 1536w, https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/55\/2026\/06\/2026-06-29_11-01.png 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:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/55\/2026\/06\/2026-06-29_11-13.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1010\" height=\"416\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/55\/2026\/06\/2026-06-29_11-13.png 1010w, https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/55\/2026\/06\/2026-06-29_11-13-300x124.png 300w, https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/55\/2026\/06\/2026-06-29_11-13-768x316.png 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:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/55\/2026\/06\/2026-06-26_12-16-1024x578.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"578\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/55\/2026\/06\/2026-06-26_12-16-1024x578.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/55\/2026\/06\/2026-06-26_12-16-300x169.png 300w, https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/55\/2026\/06\/2026-06-26_12-16-768x433.png 768w, https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/55\/2026\/06\/2026-06-26_12-16-1536x867.png 1536w, https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/55\/2026\/06\/2026-06-26_12-16.png 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 class=\"intercom-content-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/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":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/472\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14630,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/472\/revisions\/14630"}],"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}]}}