Skipped files
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Can you help me understand why my Plugins folder is being skipped?
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Thanks for the screenshot! so it looks like the plugins folder is not being skipped because all the files listed there (that are being skipped) are in sub-directories of plugin folders that are inside the “plugins” folder. You can hover your mouse over any of those skipped files and it will tell you why it was skipped, but form the file extension I can tell you that those in the screenshot are likely all being skipped because they are SVG files (which are images) and cannot contain executable code to be executed directly by your server. You can change the default list of file extension to be skipped but that would just make the scan take a lot longer and use a lot more of your server’s resources for no reason.
- What would be the reason for skipping the database?
- This site is weird since I know it has malware on it (it has the same “symptoms” as other infected sites, including an inability to see the WordPress users) but it is the only site where the malware is not being identified.
- Without more info I can only assume that you must not have the “Database Injection” checked under “What to look for:”, but I cannot make any better guesses without seeing more of your setting. Your screenshots are so specifically cropped in on a very small section of the screen that there is not enough data for me to determine anything other than that does appear to be skipping the Database.
- That is weird indeed. Given the assumption from Question #1 I would be inclined to suggest the possibility that you have not download any of the definition updates and are possibly only scanning for “Potential Threats”. If this is the case than you need download the latest definition updates and then run another Complete Scan with all the categories in the first column check, then I would bet that it will find this undetected threat. If not then please send me as much data about the scan setting and all the results from that scan, as well as any known info about this infection or any affected files that you have found.
You can also contact me directly with any data that you feel is too personal to share on this public forum:
eli AT gotmls DOT net
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