Title: Detect malicious
Last modified: July 23, 2017

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# Detect malicious

 *  Resolved [junglejim620](https://wordpress.org/support/users/damndramaqueen/)
 * (@damndramaqueen)
 * [8 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/detect-malicious/)
 * Hi BBQ,
 * Ok, I installed this plugin, seems to be 100% rating btw.
 * A mean I don’t want to deactivated the plugin just to test how malicious and 
   etc threads it looks like attacking the site? But how do I know is working or
   not for protection? It’s a big chance to take!
 * Any hints? Thanks

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 *  Plugin Author [Jeff Starr](https://wordpress.org/support/users/specialk/)
 * (@specialk)
 * [8 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/detect-malicious/#post-9346535)
 * Hello, glad to help. Are you asking how to verify that the plugin works? If that
   is correct, you can grab any of the patterns included in the main plugin file
   and append them to any of your site’s URLs. For example, `eval(` is one of the
   patterns that is blocked, so you can append to your site’s URL like so:
 * `https://example.com/eval(`
 * And that will trigger a 403 Forbidden error, which indicates that the plugin 
   is working properly. Likewise, you can test other patterns. Just be mindful of
   the following:
 * – Remove the escaping slashes from each pattern before testing
    – The query-string
   patterns need tested as a query string, for example:
 * `https://example.com/?localhost`
 * – Likewise, the user-agent patterns need to be tested as such (there are various
   online tools available for testing user agents)
 * I hope this helps. Let me know if I can provide any further infos.
    -  This reply was modified 8 years, 10 months ago by [Jeff Starr](https://wordpress.org/support/users/specialk/).
 *  Thread Starter [junglejim620](https://wordpress.org/support/users/damndramaqueen/)
 * (@damndramaqueen)
 * [8 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/detect-malicious/#post-9351840)
 * Hi BBQ,
 * I spoken with the hosting and tech guy, he hook me up and tested it. he recommended
   me to use your plugin. Even they have their own package, etc feature but costly!!!
 * Thanks for the information for testing. Great job!

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 * [protection](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/protection/)
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 * Last reply from: [junglejim620](https://wordpress.org/support/users/damndramaqueen/)
 * Last activity: [8 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/detect-malicious/#post-9351840)
 * Status: resolved