Title: Virustotal
Last modified: November 12, 2018

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# Virustotal

 *  Resolved [Иван](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ivanass/)
 * (@ivanass)
 * [7 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/virustotal/)
 * Why Virustotal shows virus?
    [Screenshot](https://dl-navigator.by/pics/redirection.jpg)
   Is it normal? Thanks

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 *  [lechon](https://wordpress.org/support/users/lechon/)
 * (@lechon)
 * [7 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/virustotal/#post-10873030)
 * [@ivanass](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ivanass/)
    Same thing here. I 
   have deactivated and deleted the plugin for now until I can figure out what is
   going on.
 *  Plugin Author [John Godley](https://wordpress.org/support/users/johnny5/)
 * (@johnny5)
 * [7 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/virustotal/#post-10874829)
 * I do not know why and as all the other scanners are not detecting a problem this
   suggests it’s a false positive.
 * You can see here that Akismet (bundled with WordPress) is also flagged with the
   same ‘virus’:
 * [https://wordpress.org/support/topic/akismet-4-0-8-is-vex-webshell/](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/akismet-4-0-8-is-vex-webshell/)
 *  [lechon](https://wordpress.org/support/users/lechon/)
 * (@lechon)
 * [7 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/virustotal/#post-10877441)
 * Hi [@johnny5](https://wordpress.org/support/users/johnny5/)
 * Thanks for the explanation, I understand.
 * Cheers!

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 * Last activity: [7 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/virustotal/#post-10877441)
 * Status: resolved