rfe: max file size to scan

  • Resolved jnorell

    (@jnorell)


    7 years, 7 months ago

    Hello,

    I imagine a quick query of your scan databases could tell you, but how often is malware found in large (say >150MB) files? I suspect with the exception of backup archives, not very often. Would you add a “max file size” setting to wordfence so that it will completely bypass scanning of very large files?

    Background story: a webhost I’m helping has a bad combination of lots of wordpress sites creating backup files with updraft and also running wordfence scans; some of the backup sets are quite large and wordfence scans not only don’t complete, but are really affecting server performance. While you can add exclusions for that, it comes to mind that a generic max file size setting might be very useful for various scenarios. And after troubleshooting their newest server and finding their largest wordpress site somehow got it’s exclusion list reset so that it is again scanning gigabytes worth of updraft backups, I thought I’d request this feature. ??

    Thanks!

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  • Hi jnorell!
    I wouldn’t say malware files larger than 150MB are found very often but it does happen so we wouldn’t limit file size in scans by default. I don’t see why we couldn’t add that option though, so I’ll add a feature request for that in our system.

    I’m wondering how the “Exclude files from scan that match these wildcard patterns” option was emptied. That would indicate Wordfence was deleted and reinstalled, or something along those lines.

    Thanks for your feedback and hope you have a great week!

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