Title: Bizarre Admin Behavior (download window) Last modified: August 21, 2016 --- # Bizarre Admin Behavior (download window) * [birdog](https://wordpress.org/support/users/birdog/) * (@birdog) * [12 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/bizarre-admin-behavior-download-window/) * Using WP 3.7.1 * Here is one for the books– Clicking in the WPSmart tab in the left column of the admin page sometimes opens a download window!!!!! Yes, I have never experienced anything like that before. It freaked me out and I thought I got hacked and had to scan everything for hours, but I found nothing. * The download window only names the folder containing my blog. As an example if my blog is in a folder /blog within my main site, the download window just says blog with no file type indicated. The second time it happened, I decided to try to download it. So I designated a target folder on my drive and the file name is just “blog” with no designated type. Its file size is 21.4KB and it tests OK upon scanning it for malware. * Upon opening the file in Notepad, I see nothing but code, i.e the first few lines: wOFF Uœ Š@ FFTM U€ ^0êGDEF U` ) øOS/2 ¤ A`+®P…cmap P   Žu¿çgasp UX ÿÿ glyf Ø C’ kliö©‰head 0 3 6úÖ­œhhea d $Shmtx è g ÈÞ=.|loca ð æ æ înmaxp „ B vname Ml ¿ ±ÅXé|post O, + * But it doesn’t do this every time I click on the WPSmart tab. It seems totally random and it is extremely disconcerting. What could possibly cause this bizarre action with this plugin? * [http://wordpress.org/plugins/wpsmart-mobile/](http://wordpress.org/plugins/wpsmart-mobile/) Viewing 5 replies - 1 through 5 (of 5 total) * Plugin Author [WPSmart](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wpsmart/) * (@wpsmart) * [12 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/bizarre-admin-behavior-download-window/#post-4422688) * Hey birdog, * Wow, you weren’t wrong, that’s definitely one for the books! I honestly can’t say what the cause or the remedy of this is as that’s something I’ve never witnessed before with a WordPress plugin haha. But nonetheless we’ll do our best to take a look into it and see if we can replicate the issue on our end. * Did you try de-activating then re-activating the plugin and see if that behavior still occurs? * Thread Starter [birdog](https://wordpress.org/support/users/birdog/) * (@birdog) * [12 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/bizarre-admin-behavior-download-window/#post-4422790) * Thank you for the response. I tried your suggestion to de-activate and re-activate the plugin. Time will tell. As I said the behavior is random. The only pattern I can detect is that it happens early in a session, after logging into admin, and then clicking on the plugin tab first, or maybe right after clicking on the general plugins tab–but not every time. * Maybe I’ll try uninstalling/reinstalling the WPSmart plugin. Anyway, thanks for looking into it. You guys are great. * Thread Starter [birdog](https://wordpress.org/support/users/birdog/) * (@birdog) * [12 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/bizarre-admin-behavior-download-window/#post-4422807) * Well, it happened again. This morning, I loggedin to WP admin and the first thing I did was to click on the WPSmart tab to open the settings page, which indeed opened, along with a popup window asking what to do with the download. * It says the file is an “application/octet-stream (21.4KB. Ah, but this time the file name was not the name of my blog, it sported a new filename: dZT8dvYI just like that, no extension. It looks like a password, but its not one that I have ever used (or will). I opened the file in notepad and it appears to be exactly the same file. Every character and symbol in the first few lines of code are identical to the code I pasted in the previous post. Go figure. * Its the typical download window. This kind of thing makes me nervous. * OS= Windows XP Pro SP-3 Fully Patched FireFox v 25 * Plugin Author [WPSmart](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wpsmart/) * (@wpsmart) * [12 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/bizarre-admin-behavior-download-window/#post-4422810) * Hmm, I don’t think it’s anything to worry about, usually things like this just means the browser is having difficulty figuring out how to handle a certain file so instead of displaying it tries to download (thinking it’s a downloadable file). It could be a Windows XP + FireFox combination thing possibly? If you have other browsers (say Chrome), maybe try using that instead and see if the same issue pops up? * Thread Starter [birdog](https://wordpress.org/support/users/birdog/) * (@birdog) * [12 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/bizarre-admin-behavior-download-window/#post-4422815) * Thank you for your response and your time. It is always possible that something on my system could trigger the download window when clicking on this plugin tab in the admin area. * However, given your expertise in coding your wonderful plugin, I thought you would know something in the code that could be suspect, or at least a candidate for such a call to download a file. At the least, I thought you should know that something is different about this plugin, compared to a plugin baseline (i.e. recognize the code I posted). Since nothing else ever produced such a call in all my WP experience using my current system, thinking there is something unusual in the WPSmart code doesn’t seem to be a misplaced guess. * At any rate, I know you have bigger fish to fry, so I will not waste your time with this strange anomaly (it is intermittent, at any rate). If you don’t think there is a security risk with this plugin, then so be it. You can close this thread. You have kindly considered my request, at least, and I do appreciate your input. Thanks. Viewing 5 replies - 1 through 5 (of 5 total) The topic ‘Bizarre Admin Behavior (download window)’ is closed to new replies. * ![](https://s.w.org/plugins/geopattern-icon/wpsmart-mobile.svg) * [WP Smart Mobile Theme Plugin](https://wordpress.org/plugins/wpsmart-mobile/) * [Support Threads](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/wpsmart-mobile/) * [Active Topics](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/wpsmart-mobile/active/) * [Unresolved Topics](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/wpsmart-mobile/unresolved/) * [Reviews](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/wpsmart-mobile/reviews/) ## Tags * [admin](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/admin/) * 5 replies * 2 participants * Last reply from: [birdog](https://wordpress.org/support/users/birdog/) * Last activity: [12 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/bizarre-admin-behavior-download-window/#post-4422815) * Status: not resolved