Last Scan Status

This is a bug in my last release in the code that reads your wp_options table. I will have that fixed in the next release.

Ok, great. Thanks for the response, Eli. I just wasn’t sure, the plugin was installed to find the source of all the spam I’m getting and that login file was a mind bender for me. I have no idea what normal code looks like compared to the fake stuff.

On a side note, I could really use some help finding the bad code! Ive been looking all day. I did find a bunch of .filename.php files and when opened the showed some real crazy code so i deleted them all. I assume the plugin didn’t find them because they were considered hidden using the . ?

My plugin searches hidden files so it mus have been some other reason it did not flag them as malicious, maybe they were not bad at all. Can you send me one of those files that you deleted so I can tell you if it’s bad? If it is bad I will add it to me Definition Update so that it can be automatically removed in the future. If you need help send me and your WP Admin Login (and a donation would be great too).

My direct email is: eli AT gotmls DOT net

Aloha, Eli

I’m pretty sure they were evil files. Since deleting them last week I haven’t had a single spam comment. I would like to show you but I don’t know how to recover them from cPanel. They. Use be in one of my backups, I’ll check them when I get a chance. But is it safe to extract a backup with these corrupt files onto my desktop?

I will definitely send you a donation soon, it’s a very good plugin.

Thank you.

Yes, it’s safe to extract those infected PHP files onto your desktop, just don’t execute them if you have PHP installed on your local machine.

Aloha, Eli

I just released a new version of my plugin that fixes that bug where it always says “Last scan never started”.

Sorry, I have been very busy lately and have not had time to dig up those files. However I sent out a small donation this week, I hope it got to you. Hopefully this weekend or sometime during the holidays I will get to that. Please keep the thread open until then.

Hi Eli, I just sent you a zip file with some of those hidden and corrupt looking files. Please let me know when you recieve it.