Title: [Plugin: Wordfence Security] Error while scanning
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# [Plugin: Wordfence Security] Error while scanning

 *  Resolved [Con7e](https://wordpress.org/support/users/con7e/)
 * (@con7e)
 * [13 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-wordfence-security-error-while-scanning/)
 * I got an errore while clicking on “Scan” on the plugin:
 * […]
    Jun 15 21:15:26] Found 9 themes [Jun 15 21:15:26] Reading theme information
   from each theme’s style.css file [Jun 15 21:15:26] Sending request to Wordfence
   servers to do main scan. [Jun 15 21:15:27] **We could not fetch data from the
   API when calling ‘main_scan’: HTTP status 100 from server. Empty reply from server**
 * Any help?
 * [http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wordfence/](http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wordfence/)

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 *  Plugin Author [Mark Maunder](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mmaunder/)
 * (@mmaunder)
 * [13 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-wordfence-security-error-while-scanning/#post-2820908)
 * If you rescan do you get the same error? It may indicate that your WordPress 
   system can’t connect to the outside world. Do other plugins that make outside
   connections like Akismet work?
 * Thanks,
 * Mark.
 *  Thread Starter [Con7e](https://wordpress.org/support/users/con7e/)
 * (@con7e)
 * [13 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-wordfence-security-error-while-scanning/#post-2820909)
 * Akismet works just fine 🙂
 * I get the same error even now 🙁
 *  Plugin Author [Mark Maunder](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mmaunder/)
 * (@mmaunder)
 * [13 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-wordfence-security-error-while-scanning/#post-2820914)
 * Can you try to connect to:
 * [http://noc1.wordfence.com/](http://noc1.wordfence.com/)
 * From your server? This is our scanning server. You should get an error about 
   an invalid API key.
 * Our systems are working fine, so I think it’s something on your server that is
   not able to connect to noc1.wordfence.com. If you can figure out what it is it
   would be helpful. I’m happy to make any modifications to Wordfence we need to,
   like configuring a proxy server, but I need to know what’s causing this on your
   end. Also check your error logs if you can.
 * Thanks,
 * Mark.
 *  Plugin Author [Mark Maunder](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mmaunder/)
 * (@mmaunder)
 * [13 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-wordfence-security-error-while-scanning/#post-2820956)
 * Closing this as I haven’t heard from the user for 3 days.
 * Mark.

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 * Last activity: [13 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-wordfence-security-error-while-scanning/#post-2820956)
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