Title: Deleted Wordfence
Last modified: September 20, 2016

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# Deleted Wordfence

 *  Resolved [ahamaton](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ahamaton/)
 * (@ahamaton)
 * [9 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/deleted-wordfence/)
 * Hi
 * I deleted wordfence from my list of plugins but I’m still receiving alerts that
   are apparently coming from my website. How is this happening ?

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 *  [bluebearmedia](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bluebearmedia/)
 * (@bluebearmedia)
 * [9 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/deleted-wordfence/#post-8201986)
 * You likely need to delete the Wordfence data from your WordPress DB, as well.
 * Re-enable Wordfence, go into the Wordfence Options, then click the checkbox for“
   Delete Wordfence tables and data on deactivation?”
 * Then delete the plug-in again, at which point, Wordfence data will be deleted
   as well.
 *  Thread Starter [ahamaton](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ahamaton/)
 * (@ahamaton)
 * [9 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/deleted-wordfence/#post-8202207)
 * Thanks
 *  [bluebearmedia](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bluebearmedia/)
 * (@bluebearmedia)
 * [9 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/deleted-wordfence/#post-8203403)
 * Sorry – quick re-wording…. deactivate the plug-in before deleting it to allow
   that setting to work!
 *  Thread Starter [ahamaton](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ahamaton/)
 * (@ahamaton)
 * [9 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/deleted-wordfence/#post-8205145)
 * Thanks
 * You have to do that anyway. It won’t let you delete before you deactivate.
 * I think it worked anyway
 * Cheers
 *  [WFSupport](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wfsupport/)
 * (@wfsupport)
 * [9 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/deleted-wordfence/#post-8205486)
 * Also make sure there isn’t a backup copy of your website in the public_html or
   www folder of your site. We had a couple of cases like yours where someone had
   made a copy of the site which was still pointing at the database and sending 
   alerts that way. What [@bluebearmedia](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bluebearmedia/)
   mentioned will work too but having a backup of the site that isn’t being updated
   is a security risk because it can be exploited.
 * tim

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