Title: Malware alert
Last modified: August 14, 2022

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# Malware alert

 *  Resolved [marianssen](https://wordpress.org/support/users/marianssen/)
 * (@marianssen)
 * [3 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/malware-alert-5/)
 * Hi,
 * I’ve just received a Malware alert from my hosting provided in regard to the 
   file located in /wp-content/plugins/page-scroll-to-id/includes/malihu-pagescroll2id-
   shortcodes.php.
 * According to their message, the file contains contains {HEX}Malware.Expert.function.
   function.

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 *  Plugin Author [malihu](https://wordpress.org/support/users/malihu/)
 * (@malihu)
 * [3 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/malware-alert-5/#post-15915619)
 * Hello,
 * Are you sure the malware alert that you got is legit?
 * There’s no such thing in plugin’s code. You can see the code in WordPress repo:
 * [https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/page-scroll-to-id/tags/1.7.5/includes/malihu-pagescroll2id-shortcodes.php](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/page-scroll-to-id/tags/1.7.5/includes/malihu-pagescroll2id-shortcodes.php)
 * If you browse the file code (only 39 lines of code) you’ll see that there no 
   such thing as {HEX}Malware.Expert.function.function. Not sure where they got 
   this from(?)
 * Is the file (includes/malihu-pagescroll2id-shortcodes.php) in your installation
   the same as the code above? Maybe it was modified in your site by a bad agent?
 * Let me know
 *  Thread Starter [marianssen](https://wordpress.org/support/users/marianssen/)
 * (@marianssen)
 * [3 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/malware-alert-5/#post-15916500)
 * Hi,
 * you’re right, there was no such thing in the code. I think the hosting malware
   agent just evaluated this as a false positive.
 * Regards
 *  Plugin Author [malihu](https://wordpress.org/support/users/malihu/)
 * (@malihu)
 * [3 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/malware-alert-5/#post-15916619)
 * Great 🙂
    I’m marking this as resolved but if you need more help, let me know.

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 * Last reply from: [malihu](https://wordpress.org/support/users/malihu/)
 * Last activity: [3 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/malware-alert-5/#post-15916619)
 * Status: resolved