diff --git a/ui/media/js/main.js b/ui/media/js/main.js
index d22d3169..27da7b2a 100644
--- a/ui/media/js/main.js
+++ b/ui/media/js/main.js
@@ -1159,7 +1159,7 @@ async function getModels() {
             previewPane.style.textAlign="center"
             previewPane.innerHTML = '<H1>🔥Malware alert!🔥</H1><h2>The file <i>' + models['scan-error'] + '</i> in your <tt>models/stable-diffusion</tt> folder is probably malware infected.</h2><h2>Please delete this file from the folder before proceeding!</h2>After deleting the file, reload this page.<br><br><button onClick="window.location.reload();">Reload Page</button>'
             makeImageBtn.disabled = true
-	}
+        }
         let modelOptions = models['options']
         let stableDiffusionOptions = modelOptions['stable-diffusion']
         let vaeOptions = modelOptions['vae']
diff --git a/ui/server.py b/ui/server.py
index 154fc6cd..07464242 100644
--- a/ui/server.py
+++ b/ui/server.py
@@ -208,13 +208,17 @@ def getModels():
             os.makedirs(models_dir)
 
         for file in os.listdir(models_dir):
-            scan_result = picklescan.scanner.scan_file_path( os.path.join(models_dir, file))
-            if ( scan_result.issues_count >0 or scan_result.infected_files >0):
-                rich.print(":warning: [bold red]Scan %s: %d scanned, %d issue, %d infected.[/bold red]" % ( file,  scan_result.scanned_files, scan_result.issues_count, scan_result.infected_files) )
-                models['scan-error'] = file
-                return models
-            else:
-                rich.print("Scan %s: [green]%d scanned, %d issue, %d infected.[/green]" % ( file, scan_result.scanned_files, scan_result.issues_count, scan_result.infected_files ) )
+            try:
+                scan_result = picklescan.scanner.scan_file_path( os.path.join(models_dir, file))
+                if ( scan_result.issues_count >0 or scan_result.infected_files >0):
+                    rich.print(":warning: [bold red]Scan %s: %d scanned, %d issue, %d infected.[/bold red]" % ( file,  scan_result.scanned_files, scan_result.issues_count, scan_result.infected_files) )
+                    models['scan-error'] = file
+                    return models
+                else:
+                    rich.print("Scan %s: [green]%d scanned, %d issue, %d infected.[/green]" % ( file, scan_result.scanned_files, scan_result.issues_count, scan_result.infected_files ) )
+            except Exception as e:
+                print('error while scanning', os.path.join(models_dir, file), 'error:', e)
+
             for model_extension in model_extensions:
                 if file.endswith(model_extension):
                     model_name = file[:-len(model_extension)]