Title: Plugin Reported as Malware
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# Plugin Reported as Malware

 *  Resolved [steve-d](https://wordpress.org/support/users/steve-d/)
 * (@steve-d)
 * [16 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-reported-as-malware/)
 * Sucuri Scanner reports W3 Total Cache/0.8.5.2 as Malware.
 * Suspicious Redirect
    Content size differs from 2963kb to 19941kb when the referer/
   user agent is from Google

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 *  [Frederick Townes](https://wordpress.org/support/users/fredericktownes/)
 * (@fredericktownes)
 * [16 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-reported-as-malware/#post-1476953)
 * Can you provide more details? There’s not enough information to guess why this
   is happening.
 *  Thread Starter [steve-d](https://wordpress.org/support/users/steve-d/)
 * (@steve-d)
 * [16 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-reported-as-malware/#post-1476960)
 * I removed W3 Total Cache/0.8.5.2 and then a scan came up clean.
 * Here is the contact. [http://sucuri.net/](http://sucuri.net/)
 *  [Frederick Townes](https://wordpress.org/support/users/fredericktownes/)
 * (@fredericktownes)
 * [16 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-reported-as-malware/#post-1477015)
 * [http://sucuri.net/?scan=mashable.com&page=scan2](http://sucuri.net/?scan=mashable.com&page=scan2)–
   I’m not able to duplicate this. Nor am I convinced of the accuracy of this service.
 *  Thread Starter [steve-d](https://wordpress.org/support/users/steve-d/)
 * (@steve-d)
 * [16 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-reported-as-malware/#post-1477021)
 * Frederick, I have access to the full paid version of the scanner. If you want
   I can privately email you a jpeg snip of the scan. First thing that came to mind,
   that’s odd, is this scan is misinterpreting cached files as malware? Unless someone
   has compromised the plugin and other plugins in this Network Solutions fiasco,
   or it could be a flaw in their scanner.
 * I doubt it’s your plugin.
 *  Thread Starter [steve-d](https://wordpress.org/support/users/steve-d/)
 * (@steve-d)
 * [16 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-reported-as-malware/#post-1477023)
 * Just emailed you a link via your contact so you can run the full scan.
 *  Thread Starter [steve-d](https://wordpress.org/support/users/steve-d/)
 * (@steve-d)
 * [16 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-reported-as-malware/#post-1477027)
 * Okay after some more nose to the grindstone I think it may be a NS thing.
 * **SNAFU**
 *  [Frederick Townes](https://wordpress.org/support/users/fredericktownes/)
 * (@fredericktownes)
 * [16 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-reported-as-malware/#post-1477036)
 * Right, there’s no difference from the perspective of a security/virus/malware
   scanner between a cached page a normal WordPress page except for the headers.
 * Would you please mark this topic as resolved? You can still post any update afterwards.

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 * Last reply from: [Frederick Townes](https://wordpress.org/support/users/fredericktownes/)
 * Last activity: [16 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-reported-as-malware/#post-1477036)
 * Status: resolved

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