Title: False Positive
Last modified: September 15, 2020

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# False Positive

 *  Resolved [Alan Jacob Mathew](https://wordpress.org/support/users/alanjacobmathew/)
 * (@alanjacobmathew)
 * [5 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/false-positive-17/)
 * Hi,
 * It took me around 30 days to find it but this pluign is flagging [Protect upload](https://wordpress.org/plugins/protect-uploads)
   plugins as a malware. I will also report it to the plugin developer to sort the
   issues.
    -  This topic was modified 5 years, 9 months ago by [Alan Jacob Mathew](https://wordpress.org/support/users/alanjacobmathew/).

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 *  [bvnigel](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bvnigel/)
 * (@bvnigel)
 * [5 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/false-positive-17/#post-13416923)
 * Hi there,
 * Thanks for reaching out to us.
 * Could you please share your website URL so that we can check this?
 * Looking forward to hearing from you.
 *  Thread Starter [Alan Jacob Mathew](https://wordpress.org/support/users/alanjacobmathew/)
 * (@alanjacobmathew)
 * [5 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/false-positive-17/#post-13417160)
 * Hi
 * Unfortunately i deleted the protect uploads plugin from my website. But anyway
   the url is trackntack[dot]com
 *  [bvnigel](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bvnigel/)
 * (@bvnigel)
 * [5 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/false-positive-17/#post-13422774)
 * Hi there,
 * Could you please let me know the date when the plugin was deleted? I will check
   the scan results for that date to inspect further.
 *  Thread Starter [Alan Jacob Mathew](https://wordpress.org/support/users/alanjacobmathew/)
 * (@alanjacobmathew)
 * [5 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/false-positive-17/#post-13442082)
 * Hi, I did a scan today with both the plugins installed again, and ths time it
   shows the site is clean. Thank you for the support.
 * So resolving the issue as solved for the time being.

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 * Last reply from: [Alan Jacob Mathew](https://wordpress.org/support/users/alanjacobmathew/)
 * Last activity: [5 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/false-positive-17/#post-13442082)
 * Status: resolved