Potential Malware: Malware code can take any form - there's no such things as "malware coding standards". The malware scanner seeks out all PHP code that looks like malware so sometimes it might flag-up code that is legitimate.

False-Positives: A false positive is where Shield alerts us to a potential malware file, but it's actually legitimate code. Our goal is to reduce false positive results as much as possible, leaving you with only true malware results.

How We Reduce False Positives: Shield uses an extensive knowledge database of millions of files from across 1000s of WordPress sites, plugins and themes to automatically remove false positives from your scan results so you never even see them.

False-Positive Confidence: To help with you with malware results, Shield gives all potential malware files a false positive confidence score. The higher the confidence score, the more likely the file is "okay". The lower the score, the less we know about the file's contents and you should investigate it using the links/tools in the table below.

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