Title: cannot perform scan
Last modified: August 21, 2016

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# cannot perform scan

 *  Resolved [foisya](https://wordpress.org/support/users/foisya/)
 * (@foisya)
 * [12 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cannot-perform-scan/)
 * I have installed Wordfence on a few sites and it has always worked well.
    However
   I’m having a problem running it on a particular site and the only difference 
   is that WordPress is installed in a subdirectory and not at the root of the homepage.
   I’ve read a few forums and this had been reported as an issue in the past and
   was fixed in an earlier Wordfence update. However it doesn’t seem to be working
   for me. I click on scan and it displays Requesting a New Scan and it turns for
   a few seconds the does nothing. Nothing appears in the Detailed Activity. I know
   for a fact that my site contains a Trojan and would love to be able to fix it
   with Wordfence.
 * [http://wordpress.org/plugins/wordfence/](http://wordpress.org/plugins/wordfence/)

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 *  Plugin Author [Mark Maunder](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mmaunder/)
 * (@mmaunder)
 * [12 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cannot-perform-scan/#post-3962931)
 * Hi,
 * Please make sure you’re not running a maintenance mode or under-construction 
   plugin as this will break scanning.
 * Regards,
 * Mark.

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 * [trojan](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/trojan/)

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 * Last reply from: [Mark Maunder](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mmaunder/)
 * Last activity: [12 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cannot-perform-scan/#post-3962931)
 * Status: resolved