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Wednesday, July 23rd, 2008 at 6:20 pm

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Why you should never avoid Free WordPress Themes only because they are encoded

This could be a little on the controversial side, but as a security specialist, I think too often people are "hyped-up" on the obfuscated code.

I recently read a post entitled "Why you should never look for free WordPress themes on Google or any other" while I congratulate the writer to investigate this issue, and then begin to search their sites for the chain and become alarmist when we meet.

"Oh, no! How did this happen to my site?"

"What now?"

People - is used in many forms, most legitimate.

Not to discredit the author of the research original, but I wanted to give more details of a security specialists view.

I'll dive into some of the topics that were included in the original message.

1. Download the magazine PRINZ Branford theme of WordPressthemesbase.com result in a zip file that requires a password. Further research found this as a copying Possible authorized an earlier version of this topic. While this topic can be detrimental to your website, we decided to drop the investigation of this, because it can not open the downloaded copy of wordpressthemesbase.com anyway.

Results: BAD! If you want this item, you get http://www.der-prinz.com and pay the $ 40 - $ has "stern warnings."

There is nothing malicious in search there. It seems the typical type code footer.

Results: Sure. This is an example of not completely decoding or code deobfuscating and assuming that is bad - this is not true.

3. We downloaded a number of issues in the original poster, you can delete the links and have a nice theme. Do not assume that the code by using an eval is evil. It is used millions of times in the legitimate code.

4. I will agree with the original poster where FreeWPThemes download - must be updated to comply with WordPress 3.0.

Results: I look for topics that have been updated.

5. Obviously, get a free WordPress themes from WordPress.org going to be your safest option all.

Results: Go ahead, do it.

6. The theme of FUNDA-themes.rock kitty.net is downloaded and analyzed below.

In base64_decodings, but they are harmless. If I had to make a suggestion to the people who run the website download the theme, it would stop using popular themes to build your backlinks.

that as a theme, a widget or a plugin using base64_decode, which is bad or harmful.

I give them an "up-top", as my wife would say that the cartel original research, but I would like to state that many of the security issues.

If you want to analyze an issue for us, I e-mailed or send a comment here with a link to the website and we will download, analyze and report. If this becomes a real issue, we will create a free and analyzer put it on our website.

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