Title: Installer.php picked up as malicious code
Last modified: July 27, 2026

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# Installer.php picked up as malicious code

 *  [lanceh1412](https://wordpress.org/support/users/lanceh1412/)
 * (@lanceh1412)
 * [2 weeks, 6 days ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/installer-php-picked-up-as-malicious-code/)
 * I am using siteground and it tells me that installer.php is malicious software.
   I’m not sure you can do much about that. I tick the box to remove installer after
   upload but it doesn’t get removed. I can manually remove it ok but it also picks
   up installer.tmpl as malicious so I had to remove that as well.
 * Is there any work around for this?

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 *  Plugin Support [Bruce](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ninjateamwp/)
 * (@ninjateamwp)
 * [2 weeks, 6 days ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/installer-php-picked-up-as-malicious-code/#post-18976014)
 * Hi [@lanceh1412](https://wordpress.org/support/users/lanceh1412/) ,
 * Thanks for coming.
 * Please note that the installer file is 100% safe, and your antivirus is picking
   a false-positive response with it.
 * You can safely whitelist the plugin from the antivirus.
 * Regards,

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 * Last activity: [2 weeks, 6 days ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/installer-php-picked-up-as-malicious-code/#post-18976014)
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