Title: Virus through Plugin?
Last modified: August 22, 2016

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# Virus through Plugin?

 *  [mikebw2000](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mikebw2000/)
 * (@mikebw2000)
 * [11 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/virus-through-plugin/)
 * Hello, I just received an email from my host 1and1 saying a file was uploaded
   in path wordpress-seo/xie.php and that it is a malicious file. Can anyone verify
   that this is a virus, or a false call from 1and1 Virus scanners?
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