Warning for Wordpress users: "HireWordPressExperts Virus"

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This is a general warning for anyone who uses or used a theme they got from HireWordPressExperts.com - this site encodes a php script into a gif file, which it then loads upon your using the theme and this script then inserts a set of code that puts hidden backlinks to their site (it inserts this into the wordpress file general-template.php under wp-includes). This then steals PR juice from you.

I don't mind using a theme and then giving credit and even a back-link to the author, but this kind of thing is, in my mind, not much better than a virus.

One way that you know you have this is if you have a series of mysterious colons (no pun intended there) like this :::: somewhere on your site.

You must remove the "require" statement that pulls in the gif file, and you must remove the chunk of code from general-template.php file to get rid of this.

-DTM
#users #warning #wordpress
  • Profile picture of the author Dennis Gaskill
    I'd like to think this will squash their business when word gets out, but it probably won't. The internet is just too big.
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  • Profile picture of the author TheDebtEliminator
    Hello David,

    Thanks for the heads-up

    I will check my WP today and remove thi

    All the Best
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  • Profile picture of the author sbucciarel
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    Good catch. Glad I never used any of their themes.
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  • Profile picture of the author David McKee
    Hopefully, no other themes do this, but the fact is you need to check these themes every time and especially look for any php code that is performing a require on anything other than another php file - that is a big red flag. Don;t think it can't happen in Wordpress theme directory either!

    -DTM
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