Comments on: WordPress & Joomla theme users beware!

By: kpb

kpb — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 02:49:52 +0000

Great article, and thanks for the heads up!
I downloaded a theme once that had Adsense ad units, with the creators Publisher ID. Not really malicious, but it was sneaky.

By: Techilli

Techilli — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 16:56:44 +0000

For wordpress, there’s a plugin called Theme Authenticity Checker (TAC) available for verifying that the themes files are safe and doesn’t contain any malicious code in them.

By: irma

irma — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 08:19:37 +0000

It looks a suspicious site. It’s just a collection of templates without any information about the owner of the site

By: nitendra

nitendra — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 15:35:17 +0000

Yeah its true i think bcoz my site got same problem i had to delete everything and uploaded everything from scratch.

By: Jorge

Jorge — Sat, 11 Jul 2009 19:57:55 +0000

I use wordpress themes in my sites, how can I check if there is any malware on my theme code?

By: pascualrandy

pascualrandy — Sat, 23 May 2009 08:55:13 +0000

How can we stop this kind of treats?
is it detected by our personal antivirus or anti malware?

thanks for this info

By: Carl

Carl — Sat, 11 Apr 2009 20:48:25 +0000

There are a few that do this … joomlatp.com and jooma2u.net download free templates then put in their own code for their sites and pass of the templates as their own ..

be aware of those two .. as they might one day put other stuff in

By: Derek

Derek — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 17:29:29 +0000

No updates per say… Just be aware of where you are downloading themes from. All that I can recommend is that any 5thirtyone themes be downloaded from 5thirtyone.com ONLY.

By: Roel

Roel — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 09:00:05 +0000

Any heads up on this matter? I have already installed malware anti-virus on my pc since I am planning to create a wordpress based blog. I have also checked the link given on this matter. Would highly appreciate your feedback.

By: Igor

Igor — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 16:21:45 +0000

I was hit recently with malicious theme code. Google black-listed my site as a malware distributor, I am still awaiting their review process to remove me from the database.