[Plugin: WordPress Exploit Scanner] Really needs a progress bar and end notification

WordPress Exploit Scanner worked great for me up until a few iterations ago. Since then, it’s been pretty much useless. Today I upgraded to .94 and got this message when trying to scan for a particular phrase:

“The server encountered an internal error or misconfiguration and was unable to complete your request.

Please contact the server administrator, webmaster@[mysite].com and inform them of the time the error occurred, and anything you might have done that may have caused the error.

More information about this error may be available in the server error log.

Additionally, a 500 Internal Server Error error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request.”

I find it very frustrating that I have no idea why WPES ends up taking so long and giving nothing back. Even without the error noted above, I’ll try a scan, get nothing back, and have *no* idea whether WPES has finished and found nothing, or is still using my Apache server.

Other plugins provide a progress bar. Why can’t WPES? Further, as far as I can tell, when nothing is found, there is no notification that WPES has finished and found nothing, so I have no idea whether WPES has finished or is still working. WPES really needs some way to tell people that it is still working and to give a positive notification when it finishes.

I’m no coder, but WPES just seems designed to create frustration because of insufficient attention to keeping the user (me) continually updated on progress *and* upon finishing. Aaarrgghhhh.

http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/exploit-scanner/