Title: Not scanning plugins
Last modified: March 26, 2018

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# Not scanning plugins

 *  [royv1981](https://wordpress.org/support/users/royv1981/)
 * (@royv1981)
 * [8 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/not-scanning-plugins/)
 * If I use Anti-Malware Security and Brute-Force Firewall, theme scanning is going
   well. If I wanted to check on plugins, it going to try, but after 20 seconds,
   it hangs and doesn’t do anything.
 * The page I need help with: _[[log in](https://login.wordpress.org/?redirect_to=https%3A%2F%2Fwordpress.org%2Fsupport%2Ftopic%2Fnot-scanning-plugins%2F%3Foutput_format%3Dmd&locale=en_US)
   to see the link]_

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 *  Plugin Author [Eli](https://wordpress.org/support/users/scheeeli/)
 * (@scheeeli)
 * [8 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/not-scanning-plugins/#post-10116614)
 * Your server might not be configured to allow PHP enough memory to run the Quick
   Scan on the whole plugins directory. You could try asking your host to increase
   the memory_limit in the php.ini file on your server or you can just run the Complete
   Scan on plugins. The Complete Scan will take longer but it is more thorough and
   was designed to overcome these kind of memory limits by breaking up the scan 
   process into smaller jobs.

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 * Last reply from: [Eli](https://wordpress.org/support/users/scheeeli/)
 * Last activity: [8 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/not-scanning-plugins/#post-10116614)
 * Status: not resolved