Title: failing scan
Last modified: August 4, 2017

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# failing scan

 *  Resolved [christa575](https://wordpress.org/support/users/christa575/)
 * (@christa575)
 * [8 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/failing-scan/)
 * I’m running a scan on a new wp-engine hosted wordpress site and the scans keep
   failing…it looks like they’re still running but I’m getting the pink message 
   that it may have failed, the current one has been running for 54 mins.
    I tried
   adding this: <IfModule mod_security.c> SecFilterEngine Off SecFilterScanPOST 
   Off </IfModule>
 * to my .htaccess file, and I also increase the failure threshold in my wp-config
   file (couldn’t find the wordfence-waf.php file in the plugin folder).
 * Please let me know what else I can try.
    Thanks! Christa

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 *  Thread Starter [christa575](https://wordpress.org/support/users/christa575/)
 * (@christa575)
 * [8 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/failing-scan/#post-9381760)
 * Never mind, just found out that wordfence is blacklisted by this host. Will continue
   using it across other sites, thanks for a great plugin.
 *  [wfalaa](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wfalaa/)
 * (@wfalaa)
 * [8 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/failing-scan/#post-9394321)
 * Hi Christa,
    Thanks for understanding and using Wordfence on other sites you 
   have.
 * Have a nice day!

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