Title: Plugin fails to deactivate
Last modified: December 16, 2020

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# Plugin fails to deactivate

 *  [deckeraa](https://wordpress.org/support/users/deckeraa/)
 * (@deckeraa)
 * [5 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-fails-to-deactivate/)
 * I’m not sure how this plugin got installed on my site — maybe another plugin 
   pulled it in — but I ran into the same issue as cliffmwasho2020: it fails to 
   deactivate, stating that I have to first deactivate the (non-existent) premium
   plugin.
    -  This topic was modified 5 years, 5 months ago by [deckeraa](https://wordpress.org/support/users/deckeraa/).

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 *  [gkarogo](https://wordpress.org/support/users/gkarogo/)
 * (@gkarogo)
 * [5 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-fails-to-deactivate/#post-13878040)
 * Hi deckeraa, the issue has been resolved please trey again, thanks.
 *  [gvenditto](https://wordpress.org/support/users/gvenditto/)
 * (@gvenditto)
 * [5 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-fails-to-deactivate/#post-14046312)
 * This plugin somehow was installed on my site without my knowledge. As the other
   users explain, it can not be un-installed.
 * Anyone who is also getting hacked, beware. Parts of my site become un-available
   to certain users. I was able to remove it by deleting files from the server but
   I still have not been able to determine how it was installed. We did not have
   any new users registering.
 * I suspect that other plug-ins I had installed were corrupted. A few suspects 
   are: user registration, gravityforms and wp-optimize. I’ve seen mentions of simplelender
   hacks mentioned on gravityforms and wp-optimize pages.
 * If you have been dealing with this hack, please share so we can identify the 
   source.
 *  [bob.passaro](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bobpassaro/)
 * (@bobpassaro)
 * [5 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-fails-to-deactivate/#post-14314701)
 * Yeah, this is super weird. Discovered this on a site in development. Mysteriously
   installed. Won’t deactivate. Looking at the code, the simplemortgage_loader file
   looks like it actually hijacks Gravity Forms tables in the database and rewrites
   some Gravity Forms rows in the Options table. Not entirely sure what this is 
   doing overall, but it can’t be good.

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 * [Simplelender](https://wordpress.org/plugins/simplemortgage/)
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 * Last reply from: [bob.passaro](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bobpassaro/)
 * Last activity: [5 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-fails-to-deactivate/#post-14314701)