Title: [Plugin: WordPress Exploit Scanner] Really needs a progress bar and end notification
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# [Plugin: WordPress Exploit Scanner] Really needs a progress bar and end notification

 *  [stvbaker](https://wordpress.org/support/users/stvbaker/)
 * (@stvbaker)
 * [16 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-wordpress-exploit-scanner-really-needs-a-progress-bar-and-end-notification/)
 * WordPress Exploit Scanner worked great for me up until a few iterations ago. 
   Since then, it’s been pretty much useless. Today I upgraded to .94 and got this
   message when trying to scan for a particular phrase:
 * “The server encountered an internal error or misconfiguration and was unable 
   to complete your request.
 * Please contact the server administrator, webmaster@[mysite].com and inform them
   of the time the error occurred, and anything you might have done that may have
   caused the error.
 * More information about this error may be available in the server error log.
 * Additionally, a 500 Internal Server Error error was encountered while trying 
   to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request.”
 * I find it very frustrating that I have no idea why WPES ends up taking so long
   and giving nothing back. Even without the error noted above, I’ll try a scan,
   get nothing back, and have *no* idea whether WPES has finished and found nothing,
   or is still using my Apache server.
 * Other plugins provide a progress bar. Why can’t WPES? Further, as far as I can
   tell, when nothing is found, there is no notification that WPES has finished 
   and found nothing, so I have no idea whether WPES has finished or is still working.
   WPES really needs some way to tell people that it is still working and to give
   a positive notification when it finishes.
 * I’m no coder, but WPES just seems designed to create frustration because of insufficient
   attention to keeping the user (me) continually updated on progress *and* upon
   finishing. Aaarrgghhhh.
 * [http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/exploit-scanner/](http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/exploit-scanner/)

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