Concerns regarding new files being added to folder

  • Resolved maestroc

    (@maestroc)


    6 years, 11 months ago

    My server’s CSXWatch (virus and malware scanning) program alerted me to some files that were added to the mailoptin plugin folder today. When I went in there I am seeing lots of strange, suspicious folder names such as a5hleyrich, soundasleep, and guzzlehttp, etc. All of which seem to have been added or updated when I updated the plugin recently. The files are only in the mailoptin folder. Specifically the vendor folder such as:

    public_html/wp-content/plugins/mailoptin/vendor/soundasleep/html2text/tests/pre.html’

    What are these folders?

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  • Plugin Author Collins Agbonghama

    (@collizo4sky)

    Soundasleep is a library MailOptin uses to automatically generate a text version of HTML email. We use it in our email automation feature.

    The folder a5hleyrich is a library we use to perform task at the background asynchronously without hurting your page load.

    While guzzlehttp is a library for making HTTP requests.

    Most of these library has a “test” which contain codes to auomtate testing with phpunit.

    The files/folder are safe and not virus as indicated by your antivirus.

    Thread Starter maestroc

    (@maestroc)

    Thank you for the prompt response. I was hoping that was the case but with such suspicious sounding folder names I was concerned and wanted clarification.

    Plugin Author Collins Agbonghama

    (@collizo4sky)

    In future, we will add a step to our deploy script to remove all test folders of libraries we depend on.

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