Remove Threatview WordPress

User
how to remove
threatview isntalled on the wordpress website
Assistant
To remove **ThreatView** (a security plugin) or any plugin from your WordPress site, follow these steps depending on your access level:

### 🔧 **Method 1: From WordPress Admin Dashboard**
> If you still have access to wp-admin:

1. Go to **Plugins → Installed Plugins**
2. Locate **ThreatView**
3. Click **Deactivate**
4. After deactivation, click **Delete**

### 🔧 **Method 2: Using FTP or File Manager (e.g., cPanel)**
> Use this if wp-admin is inaccessible or ThreatView is blocking admin access.

1. Connect to your site via **FTP** (e.g., FileZilla) or **cPanel → File Manager**
2. Navigate to:

wp-content/plugins/

3. Locate the folder named something like:

threatview

4. Delete the **entire folder**

### 🔧 **Method 3: Using WP-CLI**
> If you have SSH access to the server:

wp plugin deactivate threatview
wp plugin delete threatview

### ✅ After Deletion
– Clear your **site cache** (if using a caching plugin)
– Clear **Cloudflare** cache if applicable
– Check your `.htaccess` or `wp-config.php` to ensure no code was injected (security plugins sometimes leave traces)

Would you like me to help check if any leftover code or cron jobs are still running after removal?

User
Not its installed via ssh
Assistant
Got it — if **ThreatView** was installed manually via SSH (e.g. `git clone` or downloading files directly into `wp-content/plugins`), you can remove it directly from the server.

### 🧼 Steps to Remove ThreatView via SSH

1. **SSH into your server**:

ssh your-username@your-server-ip

2. **Navigate to the WordPress plugins directory**:

cd /path/to/your/wordpress/wp-content/plugins/

> Replace `/path/to/your/wordpress/` with your actual WordPress path, e.g., `/var/www/html/`

3. **List plugins to confirm the folder name**:

ls -l

Look for something like `threatview`, `wp-threatview`, or similar.

4. **Delete the plugin folder**:

rm -rf threatview

> Make sure you’re in the correct directory before running `rm -rf`.

5. **(Optional) Clean up any database entries**
Some plugins store data in the database. You can clean up using:

wp option list | grep threatview

Then remove using:

wp option delete option_name

6. **Clear cache & restart services** (if needed):

wp cache flush

Or restart PHP-FPM / Apache / Nginx if you suspect persistent caching.

If you’re unsure of the folder name, feel free to paste the output of `ls -l wp-content/plugins` and I’ll tell you which one to delete.

User
actually its install using
sh -c "$(curl -fsSL https://pkg.threatview.app/packages/install.sh/1eb5f0ad-3b70-4b51-be03-261f1944ae70) "‌")"
Assistant
Ah, thank you — that helps a lot. When ThreatView is installed via a command like:

sh -c "$(curl -fsSL https://pkg.threatview.app/packages/install.sh/<YOUR-ID>)"

…it typically installs itself as a **system-level agent** — not just a WordPress plugin. This means it **runs independently on your server** and can monitor multiple sites or applications.

### 🧼 To Fully Remove ThreatView from Your Server:

Run the following **uninstall command** (they provide a built-in uninstaller):

sudo /opt/threatview-agent/uninstall.sh

If that script exists, it will **clean up the agent, systemd service, and cron jobs**.

### 🧹 If the above doesn’t work or folder not found:

1. **Kill the process** (if running):

ps aux | grep threatview

Then kill the process if you see something like `threatview-agent`:

sudo kill <PID>

2. **Delete its files manually**:

sudo rm -rf /opt/threatview-agent
sudo rm -rf /etc/systemd/system/threatview-agent.service

3. **Remove it from system startup**:

sudo systemctl disable threatview-agent
sudo systemctl daemon-reload

4. **Check and remove any cron jobs**:

crontab -e

Look for any entries added by ThreatView and remove them.

### ✅ Optional Cleanup

– If it created a user (`threatview`), remove it:

sudo deluser threatview

Let me know if you want to verify whether anything related is still running or left behind. I can guide you through a quick sweep.

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