09-16-2018, 11:22 AM
(09-16-2018 11:08 AM)smithnowt Wrote: [ -> ]Thanks for the thanks Berlinerin and Ramonski.
I must confess that I've become very careful to always check WP addons either via the provided VT or doing it myself.
This was pushed rather hard to my attention when several folks shared infected stuff here that had VT URLs that were made by telling it to scan the filesharing site INSTEAD of the actual file - which is 100% useless and meaningless.
Good thing it is easy to figure out with just a glance though - if/when it says URL intead of a filename, it is exactly that BS and can make for covering bad stuff for anyone not careful enough to notice.
Not all devs are either careful or kosher either and with so many sites depending upon WP now, it must be easy to exploit backdoors when users know no better.
Another trick that some users do here is to grab infested stuff from the site code...x...in...h, re-upload it as a new share, as-is, then share it here - even going so far as to use the marked photos from their source, a dead giveaway of their carelessness.
I strongly suggest that folks be on the lookout for Webshell and other backdoors if there is any desire to keep their hard works safe from malware and exploits.
Yes malware is so bad. You can get kicked out from your webhoster, if he see bad malware in your Websites. Also google dont love it.
It happened to me, and I said: never again! My whole websites was down and deleted from webhoster! And I had to upload all again, without malware. Much work! And I had to SIGN that I never use malware again! That was a website which made money that time. And also to my clients it happened :(
Some years ago it was a worster time with malware, now its better. Some years ago also from the direct Developers plugins and themes were infected, because some came to their side and infected it. Thats why Themeforest at that time posted a big Appologize for the infected files in the Sliderplugin, who nearly everyone used!
I hope it gets better. .... Malware is bad.