Cron events running even with plugin uninstalled

  • Resolved kurdi

    (@kurdi)


    8 years, 4 months ago

    I had aiowps running on my site before deciding to remove it a couple of weeks ago. However, I installed a plugin “WP Crontrol” that logs cron events and I am seeing that “aiowps_hourly_cron_event” is running every hour. Is this normal? Why would this be the case when the plugin is gone and deleted, with nothing to refer to it in .htaccess and all the databases (manually) removed?

    I am wondering if this might be something malicious disguising itself as aiowps. (My site is freewaregenius.com.)

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  • Plugin Contributor mbrsolution

    (@mbrsolution)

    Hi, can you make sure that all tables are removed from your database. Can you carry out the following instructions.

    – Log into phpMyAdmin and locate the database for the website you are having problems with. Look for any table entry with the following name aiowps and delete those tables.

    There should be 5 tables associated with this plugin:
    aiowps_events
    aiowps_failed_logins
    aiowps_global_meta
    aiowps_login_activity
    aiowps_login_lockdown

    Plugin Contributor wpsolutions

    (@wpsolutions)

    The AIOWPS plugin has code in it to detect a deactivation event and essentially if you deactivated this plugin via the WordPress Plugins menu then this code will automatically remove those wp_cron events.

    How did you deactivate this plugin?
    If you renamed the folder via FTP then this will not trigger the standard WordPress deactivation hook which consequently means that the code which clears the cron events will not be executed.

    Thread Starter kurdi

    (@kurdi)

    Hi guys, thanks for your responses.

    I was unable to deactivate the plugin normally, as I was faced with a white screen of death every time I tried to do so, and I eventually removed it via FTP. I then removed all of the aiowps_ tables from the db manually.

    Are there other items that need to be removed, aside from the hourly and daily cron events?

    Thanks

    Plugin Contributor mbrsolution

    (@mbrsolution)

    @kurdi did you remove any entries found in the .htaccess file from this plugin? For example delete and remove any code found between the following tags and including these tags.

    # BEGIN All In One WP Security
    # END All In One WP Security

    If you have carried out the above and deleted the plugin folder via FTP and deleted all the plugin tables found in the Database then the plugin is completely removed.

    If you still see the following “aiowps_hourly_cron_event” then that means that you did not completely delete all the tables from your database.

    Plugin Contributor wpsolutions

    (@wpsolutions)

    If that plugin “WP Crontrol” allows the deletion of cron events then try deleting the ones you don’t need.

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