Title: Malware Redirects
Last modified: August 27, 2017

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# Malware Redirects

 *  [jtgilroy](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jtgilroy/)
 * (@jtgilroy)
 * [8 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/malware-redirects/)
 * Recently needed to clean a database due to redirect malware live.traffic redirects.
   Installed Wordfence and noticed the same malware was found in the super cache
   file path found by Wordfence after database cleaning. I opened Super Cache and
   deleted cache. Went back to Wordfence and tried to delete but now Wordfence reported
   fiel as missing. I then Googled Super Cache and malware only to find that millions
   of sites have been effected by the malware and that I should use the latest version.
   I verified that I a using latest version. Next and last step was to disable and
   remove this plugin.
    -  This topic was modified 8 years, 8 months ago by [jtgilroy](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jtgilroy/).

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 *  Plugin Author [Donncha O Caoimh (a11n)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/donncha/)
 * (@donncha)
 * [8 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/malware-redirects/#post-9448235)
 * I think your site is infected by malware and using the cache directory to put
   it’s payload, OR, WP Super Cache is simply caching pages on your site that are
   infected with malware.
 * Unfortunately the plugin doesn’t know if a page has malware on it or not.

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