Title: Feature Request: Kill before Scan
Last modified: August 21, 2016

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# Feature Request: Kill before Scan

 *  [Scott Dayman](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sdayman/)
 * (@sdayman)
 * [11 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/feature-request-kill-before-scan/)
 * I’m again running into frequently hung scans: never-ending scans, cron key mismatch.
   It’d be nice if Wordfence would automatically kill a running scan when the next
   scan begins.
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