Wp-inspect problem activate

  • brunhenk

    (@brunhenk)


    5 years ago

    I installed the plugin wp-inspect
    and had the following problem.
    It installed but did not activate. It was just on load.
    With that, he crashed my machine, deleted my user profile and lost all information from my localhost and documents. Luckily, I back up often.
    Plugin not approved.

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  • Unfortunately i did not read the message above and ran in almost the same problem. This plugin is plain dangerous and needs to be remove from this directory. Luckily i did not loose any date like brunhenk but if i did not stop the server going haywire i might have had the same problem.
    Stay as far away as you can from this plugin.

    Hi, I found a solution to uninstall WP Inspect (formerly known as hooker). It didn’t show up in my CPanel under that web site plugins. So I ran my FileZilla FTP app and navigated inside my httpdoc folder, then went to: wp-content/plugins
    I renamed: wp-inspect to ~wp-inspect and went to CPanel and stopped my IIS App Pool and restarted my ISS App Pool, then my site would run again without getting the dreaded error 500. I run my site on HostGator shared Windows Server. You may have to do something else on a Linux or other Unix type WordPress server. I am guessing on these other platforms that you would need to stop and restart the web server there? Not sure.

    So I went to my site’s admin and under plugins I could see WP Inspect, so while there I went back to FileZilla and renamed ~wp-inspect back to wp-inspect . Then I went back to my admin for my site and deleted the WP Inspect. (It had never activated.) But I evidently had FileZilla inside the wp-inspect folder or something, because it didn’t really uninstall. Eventually I was able to uninstall (delete) this plugin.

    For me when I got this problem I couldn’t run the Admin of my site! But I was able to delete it and use my site again, without having to restore it to a backup that was a few days old.

    • This reply was modified 4 years, 4 months ago by johnfoll.
    • This reply was modified 4 years, 4 months ago by johnfoll.
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