Title: worked while another highly rated security plugin failed
Last modified: November 18, 2022

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# worked while another highly rated security plugin failed

 *  [lar](https://wordpress.org/support/users/larclericalpluscom/)
 * (@larclericalpluscom)
 * [10 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/worked-while-another-highly-rated-security-plugin-failed/)
 * MANY MANY YEARS AGO ====
    a couple of weeks ago, a client at a ‘questionable’
   hosting company got spam injected . . . a problem I had never had at any of my
   other customer sites at other more reputable hosting companies – so I went to
   the google genie and researched security plugins, and as we all know, there are
   basically 3 that are highly rated and downloaded . . so I choose the first one,
   installed it, ran it and if found nothing . . . I then un-installed it and went
   to the next one, WordFence, and it found 2 ‘bad’ files which I deleted – it found
   the exact location of the spam injection in my client’s core WordPress code ...
   which I then was able to manually delete – wow – this plugin is just fantastic–
   thanks for creating this – I will consider buying your premium version, just 
   to pay you something as I feel guilty of what it did for me, for free 11/17/22
   update ==== above was years ago (I have no idea how many) – I have been using
   this product for years now on all my sites – FANTASTIC I recently had a problem
   that was detected with the free version, deleted and repaired all files and the
   site crashed and burned decided to try premium to fix it – ran it, found errors,
   fixed it (repaired and deleted files), expanded scan, found more error, fixed
   it – BAABLAM – all fixed can’t say enough about the quality of this product or
   the service they provide YOU CAN’T GO WRONG TRYING THIS PLUGIN!`
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