Title: “WordPress core file modified:” deleted comments only
Last modified: November 15, 2016

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# “WordPress core file modified:” deleted comments only

 *  Resolved [danicalc](https://wordpress.org/support/users/danicalc/)
 * (@danicalc)
 * [9 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-core-file-modified-deleted-comments-only/)
 * Greetings! I am seeing these 2 “critical” errors today, but when I click to view
   how the files have changed it does not seem malicious. Typically when I see modifications
   of this nature they are at the “Warning” level and not “Critical” as they are
   due to plugins adjusting the core files. Is anyone else having this issue?
 * WordPress core file modified: wp-includes/compat.php
    Change: removed ” * Retrieves
   the registered autoloader functions. ”
 * WordPress core file modified: wp-includes/class-http.php
    Change: removed “* 
   [@since](https://wordpress.org/support/users/since/) 2.7.0 ”
 * I don’t want to restore the original files unless this is malicious.
 * Thanks for your help!

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 *  [wfalaa](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wfalaa/)
 * (@wfalaa)
 * [9 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-core-file-modified-deleted-comments-only/#post-8449657)
 * Hi danicalc,
    It has the flag “critical” because it’s a modification on WordPress
   core files, as long as these lines are just comments it’s okay to ignore these
   issues, knowing that if you downloaded a pure copy of WordPress from [here](https://wordpress.org/download/),
   you will find these lines.
 * If you aren’t sure who did that, I suggest contacting your web host, it’s not
   normal at all to have some files modified and you don’t know about that. (even
   if they are only code comments).
 * Thanks.
    -  This reply was modified 9 years, 8 months ago by [wfalaa](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wfalaa/).
 *  Thread Starter [danicalc](https://wordpress.org/support/users/danicalc/)
 * (@danicalc)
 * [9 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-core-file-modified-deleted-comments-only/#post-8465412)
 * Thank you for your reply!

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 * Last reply from: [danicalc](https://wordpress.org/support/users/danicalc/)
 * Last activity: [9 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-core-file-modified-deleted-comments-only/#post-8465412)
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