teqniqal

OK, FINALLY found a note that made some sense. Go to WORDFENCE OPTIONS, and scroll down to ‘Scans to include’ and then UNCHECK ‘Scan images, binary, and other files as if they were executable’

Reran the scan and although it took 4 hours (WAAAAY too stinkin’ long!), it did complete. Here are the last few lines of the scan report:
[Dec 06 01:45:39] Scanned contents of 13079 additional files at 2.09 per second
[Dec 06 01:45:39] Asking Wordfence to check URL’s against malware list.
[Dec 06 01:45:39] Checking 1232 host keys against Wordfence scanning servers.
[Dec 06 01:45:40] Done host key check.
[Dec 06 01:45:40] Checking 170 URLs from 137 sources.
[Dec 06 01:45:41] Done URL check.
[Dec 06 01:45:42] Done file contents scan
[Dec 06 01:45:43] Examining URLs found in posts we scanned for dangerous websites
[Dec 06 01:45:43] Checking 14 host keys against Wordfence scanning servers.
[Dec 06 01:45:44] Done host key check.
[Dec 06 01:45:44] Done examining URLs
[Dec 06 01:45:45] Starting password strength check on 2 users.
[Dec 06 01:45:46] Starting DNS scan for https://www.teqniqal.com
[Dec 06 01:45:47] Scanning DNS A record for https://www.teqniqal.com
[Dec 06 01:45:47] Total disk space: 9090.5247GB — Free disk space: 8833.0864GB
[Dec 06 01:45:47] The disk has 9045080.44 MB space available
[Dec 06 01:45:50] ——————-
[Dec 06 01:45:50] Scan Complete. Scanned 16882 files, 13 plugins, 6 themes, 8 pages, 0 comments and 124538 records in 4 hours 3 minutes 51 seconds.
[Dec 06 01:45:51] Wordfence used 77.09MB of memory for scan. Server peak memory usage was: 153.40MB

I set the image files to be scanned as recommended and it solved the time-out or infinite loop failure. Scan still took A VERY LONG TIME (over 4 hours) for a VERY SMALL web site (8 simple mostly static pages).

Last few lines of scan report:
[Dec 06 01:45:39] Scanned contents of 13079 additional files at 2.09 per second
[Dec 06 01:45:39] Asking Wordfence to check URL’s against malware list.
[Dec 06 01:45:39] Checking 1232 host keys against Wordfence scanning servers.
[Dec 06 01:45:40] Done host key check.
[Dec 06 01:45:40] Checking 170 URLs from 137 sources.
[Dec 06 01:45:41] Done URL check.
[Dec 06 01:45:42] Done file contents scan
[Dec 06 01:45:43] Examining URLs found in posts we scanned for dangerous websites
[Dec 06 01:45:43] Checking 14 host keys against Wordfence scanning servers.
[Dec 06 01:45:44] Done host key check.
[Dec 06 01:45:44] Done examining URLs
[Dec 06 01:45:45] Starting password strength check on 2 users.
[Dec 06 01:45:46] Starting DNS scan for https://www.teqniqal.com
[Dec 06 01:45:47] Scanning DNS A record for https://www.teqniqal.com
[Dec 06 01:45:47] Total disk space: 9090.5247GB — Free disk space: 8833.0864GB
[Dec 06 01:45:47] The disk has 9045080.44 MB space available
[Dec 06 01:45:50] ——————-
[Dec 06 01:45:50] Scan Complete. Scanned 16882 files, 13 plugins, 6 themes, 8 pages, 0 comments and 124538 records in 4 hours 3 minutes 51 seconds.
[Dec 06 01:45:51] Wordfence used 77.09MB of memory for scan. Server peak memory usage was: 153.40MB

Hello? Anybody out there? I can’t believe this question has been posted for over two weeks without any one offering a suggestion. Please, HELP! I set the time-out to 6+ hours (22,000 seconds) and it ran for about 5 hours:
[Dec 05 21:03:20] Analyzed 28700 files containing 471.71 MB of data so far
[Dec 05 21:04:18] Analyzed 28800 files containing 473.23 MB of data so far
[Dec 05 21:05:12] Scan terminated with error: Wordfence file scanner detected a possible infinite loop. Exiting on file:

Seems amazing that there are that many files to support a simple 8 page mostly static web site . . . What the heck is it scanning? 6149 files for the Chinese site seem absurd, too.

I am having the same problem trying to get my WP security plugin to update on two sites I own. I am admitted newbie, so please forgive the ignorant questions. I logged into my site ftp and tried to look for the folder ‘wp-content/plugins’ to no avail. It does not exist. Any other suggestions that someone that doesn’t know what they are doing can do? This has happened before over the past few years, and eventually it seems to clear itself, but I’d rather get it done than worry about it as I get regular reports of hack attacks (fortunately, they are unsuccessful).
PS: site is hosted through startlogic, if that matters.