https://www.wordfence.com/blog/2017/08/wordfence-launches-short-circuit-scan-signatures/
This entry was posted in Wordfence on August 30, 2017 by Mark Maunder 1 Reply
In October 2016, the Wordfence team started chatting about a way to radically boost the speed of scans once we grow beyond a certain number of scan signatures. As a reminder, a scan signature is a pattern that recognizes a certain kind of malware.
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