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Overview Warnings Check a page Site map Site health Outside websites Controls License & updates Start-up & schedule AI Prompt Assistant History Activity
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●Preview with sample data. This is how the console looks and behaves. On your PC, open the real one from the KesTivra icon on your desktop.
Security console

Your website

Check a page
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i Open License & updates
Show scan outputSee warnings
Overall safety-
VulnerableSafe
What was checked
    How this is worked out
      An estimate from what KesTivra can see from outside. 100% means no open warnings among the checks that ran, not a guarantee. The word next to it only says "Safe" when every check ran recently.
      Background monitor -
      Desktop popups
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      Vulnerability lookups
      Open warnings0

      Needs your attention

      All warnings

      Health

      Site review

      Warnings

      Accepted risks

      You chose to live with these. They are still present (accepted, not fixed). KesTivra still checks them; they're left out of the safety score.
      WarningWhyAccepted

      Your redirects

      Pages you said send visitors on to an address of yours. KesTivra doesn't warn about these, and warns again if one starts going anywhere else.
      PageGoes toAdded

      Recently resolved

      One-off check

      Check a page

      One ordinary request to that page: security headers, cookies, http:// leftovers, injected-code patterns, outdated scripts. It doesn't change the background monitor's warnings. Only your sites below can be checked.

      Result

      Your sites

      Sites the URL box may check
      The background monitor still watches your own website only. Added sites are for one-off page checks.
      Pages to watch

      Site map

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      Search engines

      Site health

      Things to look at

      Spam and hidden pages first. The small ones help Google show your pages well.

      Pages checked

      PageAnswerTitleProblems
      Code from other websites

      Outside websites

      Is it one of yours?Your shop uses some services from other companies, such as PayPal for payments or Jetpack for visitor stats. When a page starts loading something from a website KesTivra hasn't seen before, it asks you here.
      Yes, I use itPress Yes, I use this. KesTivra stops asking about it.
      Not sureLeave it here and press Ask my site manager. Unknown websites are how card-stealing code gets in, so it's fine to wait.

      Waiting for your answer

      Websites you've approved

      KesTivra won't warn about these. Remove one if you stop using that service.
      Parameters

      Controls

      Your website

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      The one website KesTivra watches.
      Change website

      Alerts

      Desktop popups
      Windows popups from the background monitor when something new is found.
      Popup for
      The lowest severity that raises a popup. Everything still shows here.
      Browser notifications
      Notify from this console while it's open, even in another tab. Saved in this browser only.
      Test a popup
      Shows one desktop popup so you can confirm alerts reach you.

      Timing

      Homepage check every
      10 to 3600 seconds.
      seconds
      Full scan
      The certificate, exposed files, versions and known vulnerabilities. Your domain's email settings (SPF, DMARC) are checked once a day and with every full scan you start.
      Full scan when I open KesTivra
      Also runs one each time you open KesTivra, unless one finished in the last 15 minutes.
      Remind me of open warnings every
      1 to 720 hours.
      hours
      Say "site down" after
      Failed homepage loads in a row, 1 to 100.
      failures
      Warn before the certificate expires
      1 to 365 days.
      days

      Pages and trust

      Extra pages to watch
      Comma-separated paths on your website, or pick them on the Site map page. Store pages are where card skimmers hide.
      Always-trusted hosts
      Comma-separated exact host names, e.g. stats.wp.com. Prefer approving them one by one under Outside websites.
      WPScan API token
      Lets the monitor look up known vulnerabilities (free plan: 25 lookups a day). Stored in config.json on this PC and never shown again.

      About & updates

      KesTivra
      To look for a newer version, open License & updates. Updating keeps your settings, warnings, approvals, schedule, history and license.
      Need help?
      Create a support report: one zip file with KesTivra's version, settings and logs, to send with your question. KesTivra removes the tokens and keys it knows about; you'll see the list of files before it's made.
      The zip will contain
        Website addresses, page paths and warning titles are included. Press Cancel if you'd rather not send them.
        iSaved settings reach the background monitor on its next check, within a minute. No restart needed.
        Background monitor

        Start-up & schedule

        When should KesTivra start?

        Switch off completely

        Uninstalling, or taking a long break?
        Most people never need this. Stop now only pauses KesTivra until the next start-up. This switches it off for good: it won't start with Windows or on its schedule until you save a start-up setting again. Use it before uninstalling KesTivra, or while your website is being rebuilt and would set off lots of false alarms. Your settings, warnings and history are kept.

        Python for the start-up task

        Did KesTivra say its start-up task uses a Python it doesn't recognise?
        KesTivra only changes a start-up task that runs this folder with a Python it approved, so nothing else can pose as KesTivra. If you installed a new Python, or set the task up yourself, press this button to let the task use the Python this console runs on. KesTivra first checks that this Python can run KesTivra and changes only which Python the task starts. A running KesTivra keeps running until its next start, except one started by a task from before KesTivra 1.6.1: that one is started again under KesTivra's own task name, so KesTivra can stop it later.
        Repairs

        AI Prompt Assistant

        Back to overview

        Copy and paste this into your AI assistant

        Works with ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini or Copilot.

        How to use it

        1. Pick the warnings to fix below. High ones first.
        2. Press Copy prompt and paste it into your AI assistant.
        3. Take the backup it tells you to take before changing anything.
        4. Follow one step at a time. If something looks different from what it describes, stop and tell it what you see.
        5. Never paste passwords, API keys or customer details into the chat.
        6. When you're done, come back and press Run full scan to confirm the warning has cleared.

        About you

        Your experience

        Warnings to include

        Your copy of KesTivra

        License & updates

        License

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        Your license
          Enter your product key
          It's in your purchase email and starts with SNTL-. KesTivra sends it once, over a secure connection, to activate this PC. It never saves the key or shows it again.
          No internet on this PC? Activate offline
          1. Press Save activation request. It saves a small file with this installation's ID (no key, no personal details).
          2. On any device with internet, open the offline activation page, enter your product key and this installation's ID, and download the activation file.
          3. Bring the file to this PC and choose it here:
          Check the license now
          Asks the licensing service for this license's current status. If the service can't be reached, nothing changes and monitoring carries on.
          Move KesTivra to another PC
          Removes the license from this PC so you can activate another installation. Scans here pause until a license is active again. Your history and settings stay.
          A KesTivra license is yours to keep: it never expires and includes free updates for as long as KesTivra is maintained. It doesn't include services from other companies that KesTivra can use, such as a WPScan plan, or your website hosting.

          Updates

          Installed version
          KesTivra only looks for updates when you ask. It never installs anything on its own.
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          Update channel
          Stable is recommended. Preview gets new versions a little earlier, for people who like to test.
          Check for updates
          
                    
          Recent updates

            User agreement

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            KESTIVRA

            A clear view of your website's security. One place to act.

            Welcome

            Let's set up KesTivra

            Cancel
            1
            Which website should KesTivra watch? The address people type to visit your site. KesTivra only ever looks at this one website.
            2
            Confirm it's yours
            3
            Accept the user agreement It explains what KesTivra does and doesn't do, and what you agree to when you use it.
            Read the KesTivra user agreement
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            iChanging website moves the current site's warnings, approvals and history to the previous-sites folder inside the KesTivra folder. Nothing is deleted.
            Over time

            History

            KesTivra summary

            Safety score

            At the end of each day, 0 to 100%

            Homepage speed

            Average seconds to load, each day. Lower is better.

            Day by day

            DaySafetyOnlineSpeedOpen warnings
            What ran

            Activity

            Back to overview See warnings

            Last console job

            Nothing has run from the console yet.

            Monitor log

            monitor.log, newest last